Categories: KnowledgeSemanticsWeb

The world’s knowledge as a collection of information streams

Representing all knowledge as a set of continuous streams has been in my mind for few years now. In some of my public talks, I illustrated how information graphs and information streams might merge, how each single entity and each relationship could be represented as an individual stream, and how information should really be addressable in space and in time.

I have already written about the “What was the title of the song that I really liked at my last concert?” scenario for the future. It’s all about machine-interpretable streams of information and reasoning over them.

An interesting essay over at Wired, “The End of the Web, Search, and Computer as We Know It”, touches on the same topic. One might say that it’s an explanation of the Reactive Framework 🙂 It even talks about how an operation on a stream (like a LINQ operator) can produce a new stream.

The article also talks about the value of personalized views over the world’s information streams, a topic that keeps coming up in tech articles or interviews.

The vision writers are trying to tell us about a possible future. Given what the big companies are doing, that future might come faster than many might expect 🙂

Fun times! 🙂

Savas Parastatidis

Savas Parastatidis works at Amazon as a Sr. Principal Engineer in Alexa AI'. Previously, he worked at Microsoft where he co-founded Cortana and led the effort as the team's architect. While at Microsoft, Savas also worked on distributed data storage and high-performance data processing technologies. He was involved in various e-Science projects while at Microsoft Research where he also investigated technologies related to knowledge representation & reasoning. Savas also worked on language understanding technologies at Facebook. Prior to joining Microsoft, Savas was a Principal Research Associate at Newcastle University where he undertook research in the areas of distributed, service-oriented computing and e-Science. He was also the Chief Software Architect at the North-East Regional e-Science Centre where he oversaw the architecture and the application of Web Services technologies for a number of large research projects. Savas worked as a Senior Software Engineer for Hewlett Packard where he co-lead the R&D effort for the industry's Web Service transactions service and protocol. You can find out more about Savas at https://savas.me/about