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• April 2 2007; Add a new article entitled The Third Manifesto revisted. This article draws the conclusion that Date and Darwen seem to be regressing relative to Codd from certain perspectives.
• November 15 2005: Fix a misspelling of Hugh Darwen's name in both articles on The Third Manifesto. I sincerely apologize for these mistakes.
• November 11 2005: Upload new version of this web site which was created using Forrest. The site has been reorganised and much new content has been made available on topics such as:
  • A definition of the concept of business integration presented in technology neutral terms. Key components of the definition presented are business integration diagrams and business area models.
  • a semantic infrastructure for business integration
  • a significance language to capture meaning in a generic topic independent manner
  • More on orthogonals; including an introduction to 3D visualisation technique for data models
  • Beginnings of the description of the ObjectTalks data definition and data manipulation language
  • Other minor stuff...
• September 17 2005: Upload version 0.8.4 of Tiny. It features, some minor cleanups and it now builds with GCC 4
• April 04 2005: Article "Informatiebeveiliging vanuit het recht bekeken" published in the security magazine "Informatiebeveiling" by the Gvib which is the Dutch society of professionals in information security.
• March 11 2005: Add a page about a new article I have written entiled: A Gentle Introduction to Orthogonals.
• On the 22th of November 2004 a response to both my Critical reading of the Third Manifesto and the amendment detailing Codd position was posted on the website of the Third Manifesto.
• April 20 2004: Add a new article A Codd inspired amendment to my critical reading of The Third Manifesto presenting new argumentation by E.F. Codd, founding father of the relational model, supporting the position that the great blunders identified by The Third Manifesto have been falsely identified as such.
• April 6 2004: Add a new article A Quick Introduction to Generalized Deterministic Parsing: Take 1 presenting an example driven high pace overview of Generalized Deterministic Parsing.
• March 1 2004: Add a new article Towards Matrix Manipulation of Future Databases. This article suggests matrices manipulation of database relations as a way forward in the quest to increase the sophistication of databases.
• February 20 2004: Add a new article Over rechtsbescherming en Informatiebeveiliging, written in Dutch, which presents a constitutional foundation for Information Secury architectures and facilities.
• January 02 2004: New version of the Mimida multilingual semantic network. New features include:
• • Much improved user interface; allowing the dictionaries to be browsed
  • Added many new languages; totalling about 27 languages
  • Start gathering statistics about the knowledge stored in the Mimida Semantic Network.
• November 11 2003: New version of the Mimida Multilingual Semantic Network. New features include:
• • Much improved user interface; allowing the dictionaries to be browsed
  • More robust implementation
  • Added the sranan language to Mimida
• Sept 09 2003: Updated the mechanically generated Mimida Multilingual Semantic Network so now it includes 9 languages. This version also includes some experimentation with the generation process. It is still to soon to draw conclusions about the merits of different generation strategies...
• Aug 27 2003: Add a page about the Mimida Multilingual Semantic Network project and update the site to reflect this fact.
• Aug 26 2003: Add a link to a first version of a mechanically generated Semantic Network for 5 different European languages. As time permits I'll improve the quality of the content in the semantic network to include more languages and also to improve support for the existing languages.
• Aug 24 2003: HTML links for semantic relations were broken. Deal with it.
• Aug 01 2003: Fix some bugs in the Wordnet browser and upgrade the server. Now I can't crash the Wordnet browser at will so it's promoted to beta level software.
• May 17 2003: Add a link to an alpha version of a multi-lingual WordNet browser than I'm working on.
• April 07 2003: Uploaded a paper called A critical reading of The Third Manifesto presenting some issues I found while reading this book by Date and Darwen.
• Jan 13 2003: Ok, my sons decided that they too can make web-sites just like their elder sister. So please check out their work. You can choose from Michael-alan's Lego site or Daniel's computer game site. Btw, these pages are in Dutch for now...
• Dec 22 2002: Upload a new version of the paper on Knowledge representation and meaning. Thanks to Rene Jansen, I found out about Category Theory. It turns out that notions from Category Theory are readily mapped unto the knowledge representation model. So I added a short section about doing this to the paper.
• Dec 20 2002: Upload a new version of the paper on Knowledge representation and meaning. Notable changes are:
  • Add support for the concept of inheritance
  • Fixes for some mistakes in the definition of significance and thruth-value
  • Avoid the Closed World assumption in the definition of the semantics of the significance of significance expressions
• Dec 12 2002: Add a page with some critical questions about the Future of Database Systems by Date and Darwen.
• Dec 12 2002: Add some information about the architecture of ObjectTalks.
• Dec 05 2002: Add a new page on knowledge representation and meaning to introduce my paper entitled An anatomy of knowledge representation and a theory of meaning.
• Dec 02 2002: Add a some photographs of my kids
• Dec 02 2002: Add a link to Michelle's home page. Michelle is my daughter. Her homepage is in Dutch.
• May 18 2002: Release a version 0.8.3 of Tiny. Implement include files for Tiny
• April 26 2002: Release a version 0.8.2 of Tiny. fix a bug in the placement of code copied to header files.
• April 18 2002: Add corrections to the paper on dotted grammars suggested by Elena Mauro. Thanks Elena.
• April 18 2002: First version live version of this site.
• February 26 2002: Actively start maintaining this site.