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Overview \ Processing.org
Processing: sketching ideas in code
Processing is a simple programming environment that was created to make it easier to develop visually oriented applications with an emphasis on animation and providing users with instant feedback through interaction. The developers wanted a means to “sketch” ideas in code. As…
Raw Data - Wikipedia
Raw Data -Data vs Information
For example, a point-of-sale terminal (POS terminal, a computerized cash register) in a busy supermarket collects huge volumes of raw data each day about customers' purchases. However, this list of grocery items and their prices and the time and date of purchase does not yield…
Where Are The Semantics In The Semantic Web?
Formal semantics for human processing
Yet further along the continuum, we have explicit semantics expressed in a formal language. However, they are intended for human processing only. We can think of this as formal documentation, or as formal specifications of meaning. Some examples of this are: 1. Modal logic is…
Four kinds of semantics
We ask three questions about how semantics may be specified: 1. Are the semantics explicit or implicit? 2. Are the semantics expressed informally or formally? 3. Are the semantics intended for human processing, or machine processing? These give rise to four kinds of semantics…