EU Research
funded by
European Commission
, in parallel with national research programs
commercial focus (not military - closer to US
National Science Foundation
than
DARPA
)
university grants, industry cost sharing, lots of teaming
4 year planning horizon
Framework Programme 5 (FP5)
, 1998-2002
Framework Programme 6 (FP6)
, 2002-2006, 17.5 billion euro
Semantic Web research is in the
Information Society Technologies (IST) programme
caveats
this is an outsiders perspective
their system seems at least as complex and Byzantine as ours
Mike Dean
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