6.898 Notions & Notions of the Semantic Web (H)

Thursdays 11-12:30, Room 4-144
Hal Abelson, Tim Berners-Lee, Chris Hanson, Lalana Kagal, Gerry Sussman, Ralph Swick, Danny Weitzner
Prereq.:
2-0-4

This is a reading seminar that will prepare students to do graduate-level research on the applications and control of automated reasoning on the World Wide Web. Special attention will be paid to "policy awareness" -- controlling the use of online resources through rule-based policy management systems that can be deployed in the open and distributed milieu of the Web. Topics include Web architecture; markup languages and Semantic Web infrastructure; automated reasoning, backtracking, and truth maintenance; and policy management, representation, and enforcement.