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On the Hunt for Patterns: from Hippocrates to Supercomputers

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Ever since Hippocrates founded his school of medicine in ancient Greece some 2,500 years ago, writes Hannah Fry in her book Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms , what has been fundamental to healthcare (as she calls it “the fight to keep us healthy”) was observation, experimentation and the analysis of data.

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The Semantic Web: 20 Years And a Handful of Enterprise Knowledge Graphs Later

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The Semantic Web started in the late 90’s as a fascinating vision for a web of data, which is easy to interpret by both humans and machines. One of its pillars are ontologies that represent explicit formal conceptual models, used to describe semantically both unstructured content and databases.