Towards Telesophy: Federating All the World’ s Knowledge
Google engEDU
1 hr 6 min – Jul 11, 2007
Google Tech Talks
July 11, 2007
The Net is the global network, which enables users worldwide to interact with information. As new technologies mature, the functions of the protocols deepen, moving closer to cyberspace visions of "being one with all the world’s knowledge". The Evolution of the Net has already proceeded from data transmission in the Internet to information retrieval in the Web. The global protocols are evolving towards knowledge navigation in the Interspace, moving from syntax to semantics. In the future, infrastructure will support analysis, for interactive correlations across knowledge sources. This moves closer towards "telesophy", (transparent infrastructure for) knowledge at a distance.
Getting from here to there will require a paradigm shift from central to distributed, from searching universal archives to navigating community repositories. Central archives partially survived the transition from a million repositories to a billion, but distributed indexing is necessary to scale to a trillion repositories in the next generation. Supporting scalable semantics requires divide-and-conquer to capture local context as an approximation to global meaning. Concept switches in the Interspace are the analogue of packet switches in the Internet, since user interaction is at the level of logical spaces rather than physical networks. This talk will describe the research technologies and trends creating the global infrastructure, with suggestions for hero experiments and hints at the new world of the near future.
Speaker: Bruce Schatz
Bruce Schatz is Director of the CANIS (Community Architectures for Network Information Systems) Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has been working on federating all the world’s knowledge by building pioneering research systems in industrial and academic settings. These include the first large-scale prototype for federating syntax (Telesophy at Bellcore in the 1980s), structure (DeLIver at UIUC in the 1990s), and semantics (BeeSpace at UIUC in the 2000s). During the 1980s, he was the member of the Internet Research Task Force focused on search and during the 1990s was the Principal Investigator of the Illinois project in the NSF Digital Libraries Initiative, the search flagship in the federal program that spun off Google.
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