Modern Software : Knowledge Graphs

Our industry never stops changing, but sometimes those changes are trivia and fluffy. Sometimes they are fundamental and enduring. This series is going to highlight some of the most important trends happening in the hardware, software, data and architecture spaces.

Knowledge graphs are a rapidly emerging concept for machine processable models of complex and dynamic domains. Whether you are Google needing to shore up your understanding of what people search for or a typical organization needing to free data from its silos, you will want to pay attention to what is happening in this standards-driven space. If your organization wants to resolve its most pernicious data integration problems or facilitate machine learning initiatives, knowledge graphs are likely to be part of your future.

Modern software developers need modern ways of projecting what they know via standards in network-friendly ways.

There are many attempts to build data-driven learning and reasoning capabilities these days in the worlds of machine learning and AI. Deep learning systems have had remarkable results, but even its thought leaders and strongest advocates acknowledge the need for “common sense” in the learning process. That means different things to different people, but Knowledge Graphs represent one approach to capture what we know about a domain. They are increasingly being used to present domain views that grow over time and aren't domain-specific using network-friendly standards.

We will discuss the emergence of Knowledge Graphs as an emerging solution to a missing capability in most organization's IT strategies. We will discuss how some of the biggest organizations in the world are heading in this direction, it's impact on API design and more. We will focus on specific tools, platforms and standards that are making Knowledge Graphs a crucial part of your overall solutions.

About Brian Sletten

Brian Sletten is a liberal arts-educated software engineer with a focus on forward-leaning technologies. His experience has spanned many industries including retail, banking, online games, defense, finance, hospitality and health care. He has a B.S. in Computer Science from the College of William and Mary and lives in Auburn, CA. He focuses on web architecture, resource-oriented computing, social networking, the Semantic Web, AI/ML, data science, 3D graphics, visualization, scalable systems, security consulting and other technologies of the late 20th and early 21st Centuries. He is also a rabid reader, devoted foodie and has excellent taste in music. If pressed, he might tell you about his International Pop Recording career.

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