Semantic Sommelier: Wine Tasting 3.0
Thursday, August 9, 2012 - 17:30
in Mathematics & Economics
Can't tell a $4 bottle of wine from a $40 one? Neither can the best sommeliers in the world. But in the future you might at least seem like an expert, thanks to the power of semantic Web technology.Deborah McGuinness, professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has been developing applications for tech-savvy wine connoisseurs since her days as a graduate student in the 1980s, before what we now know as the World Wide Web had even been envisioned. We must assume she had a wine lovers BBS. read more