Server software that serves up applications to run on websites. The federated model allows the data to reside with whoever is providing the web service but opens up new issues of interoperability. Written as a standard form of XML messaging, it...
Researchers also have refined more acutely the algorithms and concepts behind artificially intelligent software. UIMA will greatly expand and enhance the retrieval techniques underlying databases, said Alfred Spector, vice president of services and...
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is also involved in establishing web services standards, and the web services interoperability organisation (WS-I), which calls itself a "standards integration" organisation, was formed last year to ensure that...
The government is to trial XML interoperability standards that will allow different departmental e-procurement systems to talk to each other. Whitehall procurement body the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) had initially planned to develop its...
Though the software the company plans to show off won't be available any time soon, Stephenson wanted to underscore that Microsoft is playing well with others: "We have been working closely with others in the industry on interoperability.
On the group's website, an APIG spokesman said: "One-to-one sign-language translation is expensive and in short supply, but the advent of intelligent speech recognition associated with avatar sign-generators could give BSL [British Sign Language...