developerWorks Interviews: Tim Berners-Lee Originator of the Web and director of the World Wide Web Consortium talks about how far we've come and about the challenges and opportunities ahead. 22 August 2006
Through collaboration and a better grasp of people's needs -- in particular in underserved areas of the world -- the Foundation seeks to improve the Web as a universal communications medium. It will seek to establish trustworthiness for websites via a variey of avenues, 'not just through one IQ number'.
The concept of machine-understandable documents does not imply some magical artificial intelligence which allows machines to comprehend human mumblings. It only indicates a machine's ability to solve a well-defined problem by performing well-defined operations on existing well-defined data. Instead of asking machines to understand people's language, it involves asking people to make the extra effort