On 1 Nov 2010, at 04:22, Joe Corneli wrote: > Hi Henry: > > I read the slides with interest, they are wide-ranging and I learned > of some new (to me) thinkers. I'd be interested to know the story > behind these slides (in particular, any information about what got you > in touch with these various strands of thought?)
As a kid I discovered computers on a DEC2020 at my fathers university. I wanted to ask it to solve the rubix cube, so I was told that I needed to program it. After a time playing dungeaons and dragons, I learnt Basic, then Pascal, then Lisp which got me interested in AI. From AI I got interested in Philosophy, where I did a B.A. and then started and MPhil. After too much philosophy I came back to computing. That is pretty much how I came to discover most of the philosophers cited. At Sun Microsystems I was given enough freedom to do very much what interested me. Starting from Atom, I then was looking for applications of the semantic web. Doing this I tried to understand it, and what the misunderstandings I had and others had along the way. Most of those were philosophical. I blogged about that at http://blogs.sun.com/bblfish And that video is pretty much the summary of those blogs. Hope that helps, Henry > > Joe > > On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 6:29 PM, Henry Story <[email protected]> wrote: >> I have now put it up in ODP and PDF format under a CC licence here >> >> http://bblfish.net/tmp/2010/10/26/ >> >> Henry >> >> On 29 Oct 2010, at 16:18, Henry Story wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> At the first Web and Philosophy [1] conference that took place in Paris a >>> little over >>> a week ago. I presented "Philosophy and the Social Web" which is online >>> now in english. >>> The presentation comes with audio and notes, and is very detailed. It >>> covers the social >>> networking problem, web architecture, REST, Reference and the Semantic >>> Web, issues >>> in the Philosophy of Language and of Mind. These may seem a bit abstruse, >>> but they >>> are really written from an engineers perspective who wishes to build the >>> Social Web. >>> >>> http://www.slideshare.net/bblfish/philosophy-and-the-social-web-5583083 >>> >>> For those who are interested in getting a view of how engineering and >>> philosophy >>> touch, are interested in an overview of the semantic web or linked data, or >>> yet another >>> view of the WebID protocol, this should be interesting. >>> >>> Henry >>> >>> [1] http://web-and-philosophy.org/ >>> >>> >>> Social Web Architect >>> http://bblfish.net/ >>> >> >> Social Web Architect >> http://bblfish.net/ >> >> >> Social Web Architect http://bblfish.net/
