Thursday, 1 April 2004, 19.00 hr
"XML and the WWW"
Michael Sperberg-McQueen
(World Wide Web Consortium)

Friday, 2 April 2004, 14.00 hr
"Meaning Machines"
Deb Roy (MIT Media Lab)

Veranstalter: AAC - Austrian Academy Corpus
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Michael Sperberg-McQueen
C.M. Sperberg-McQueen, invited as a member of the "AAC- Austrian Academy Corpus" Scientific Advisory Board, is a member of the technical staff at the World Wide Web Consortium - W3C, he is co-chair of the XML Coordination Group and the the XML Schema Working Group , co-coordinator (with David R. Chesnutt) of the Model Editions Partnership, co-editor of the Text Encoding Initiative's Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange (1994), and of the W3C Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 specification. In his talk C.M. Sperberg-McQueen will address current issues concerning the development and the potential of XML based technologies in the World Wide Web.


Deb Roy
Deb Roy, invited as a member of the "AAC- Austrian Academy Corpus" Scientific Advisory Board, is an Assistant Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In his presentation Deb Roy will deal with current research done at the "MIT Media Lab". Abstract: "Computers don't grasp meaning in any deep, human sense. From a computer's point of view, words are meaningless bits of information to be processed with speed and precision, but without any genuine interpretation of content. We envision a new class of machines that understand the meaning of information in more human-like ways by grounding knowledge in the physical world and in the machines' own goals. This approach is being applied to develop multimodal human-machine interfaces and tools for situated language analysis."