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Imaging Black Culture  A lecture by Deb Willis (NYU) November 12 11:30 am LL 816 presented with the generous support of a 2008-09 Dean's Challenge Grant reception to follow the lecture ALL ARE WELCOME

DESIGN CONVERSATIONS Rick Frankel and Fred Krughoff discusses the Semantic Web and Standards — why should you care? Monday, Sept. 29th at 6:30 in the Visual Arts Crit room The Semantic Web is about structuring the content of web pages — extending xhtml to make web pages accessible to users and other computers. From a designer’s standpoint the most important part is separating the look of a website from the content. Rick’s presentation will discuss the how and why this is important for the future of the web. “The Semantic Web is an evolving extension of the World Wide Web in which the semantics of information and services on the web is defined, making it possible for the web to understand and satisfy the requests of people and machines to use the web content”. Wikipedia said that. Rick Frankel is a brilliant programmer, who has over 30 years experience in information technologies planning, data systems design and development, his expertise includes XML/XSLT, SOAP, /RPC, HTML, Java, ...