In his talk The Internet Is Your New Database, Will laid bare the ideas behind the semantic web. While usually shrouded in misunderstanding, the semantic web has lots of cool ideas packed in it.

Triples

Will started with the simple notion of a...

After hearing that Twitter would be sending its engineers to the UW to talk about Apache Storm, a group of Bendyworkers bundled up against the cold and made the short trek to the UW.

If I may impose upon you for a minute, relational algebra is one of those things that, like linear algebra, is a shining intellectual gem.