Is Paris Hilton a celebrity socialite or a hotel in France? The answer depends upon the context, perhaps from a Web page, magazine article, or other source. A normal search engine can’t tell the ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- Web scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will use the World Wide Web to compile and share scientific data on an unprecedented scale. Their goal is to hasten scientific ...

Troy, NY – Web scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will use the World Wide Web to compile and share scientific data on an unprecedented scale. Their goal is to hasten scientific discovery ...

Give a computer a task that can be crisply defined win at chess, predict the weather and the machine bests humans nearly every time. Yet when problems are nuanced or ambiguous, or require combining ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- Portals used to launch you, Stargate-style, to bizarre places brought to life by science fiction writers. Today, thanks to European research, portals can take you to fascinating ...

Mental representations of familiar categories are composed of visual and semantic information. Disentangling the contributions of visual and semantic information in humans is challenging because they ...

Photo: Peter Fox, the principal investigator for the project and Senior Constellation Professor in the Tetherless World Constellation at Rensselaer. Web scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ...

Contributions: Gordon Plotkin is best known for his introduction of structural operational semantics (SOS) and his work on denotational semantics. Your career begins ...