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Data Sciences: From First-Order Logic to the Web

Inaugural lecture given on Thursday 8 March 2012

Sciences des données : de la logique du premier ordre à la Toile

Translated by Liz Libbrecht

Relational database management systems, using as foundations a formal language, first-order logic, serve as mediators between individuals and machines. With the increase in the volume of data disseminated on the Web, a “collective intelligence” is currently emerging, shaped by large search engines whose monopoly raises ethical and political questions. One of the main challenges for the coming years is the development of technologies that will make it possible to find, evaluate, validate, v...


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  • Publisher : Collège de France
  • Series : Leçons inaugurales
  • Place of publication : Paris
  • Year of publication : 2012
  • Published on OpenEdition Books : 24 janvier 2013
  • Electronic EAN : 978-2-7226-0179-6
  • DOI : 10.4000/books.cdf.556
Serge Abiteboul
Data Sciences: From First Order Logic to the Web

Inaugural lecture given on Thursday 8 March 2012

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