Ruben Verborgh

Professor, Research affiliate, , Technology Advocate, Inrupt / Ghent University / MIT What is Solid, the technology Sir Tim Berners-Lee is pioneering to re-orient the web to its original vision? How do Javascript and distributed querying make linked data usable? Ruben Verborgh has answers.

About this speaker

Ruben is a professor of Semantic Web technology at IDLab, Ghent University, and a research affiliate at the Decentralized Information Group of CSAIL at MIT. He acts as a technology advocate for Inrupt & the Solid ecosystem of apps, and has co-authored 2 books and numerous publications. He aims to build a more intelligent generation of clients for a decentralized Web at the intersection of Linked Data and hypermedia-driven Web APIs.

Talks

Connecting data, decentralizing the web, making it sustainable: can the semantic web do this?

04 October 2019, 12:00 AM
Sebastian Hellmann Ruben Verborgh Jonathan Holtby Andre Garzia

Connecting People, Data, and Apps Without Centralization

04 October 2019, 12:00 AM
Ruben Verborgh