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Award for Most Cited Article

An article from researchers of the computer science department at VU University Amsterdam was awarded with the "most cited paper 2006-2010 award" by the Journal of Web Semantics.

This journal has, in its short existence, obtained one of the top-rankings in the computer science field. The ranking is measured over the period of the last five years, by analysing the top 50 magazines for computer science, according to Microsoft's Academic Search engine. The same paper also obtained 3rd place this year in the annual "Billion Triple Challenge" on the European Semantic Web Conference.

The article is named: "Marvin: Distributed reasoning over large-scale Semantic Web data" and an extract can be found here

The article describes the use of a large group of un-coordinated computers, who can collaborate to achieve ons clearly defined goal. (i.e. Drawing logical conclusions from a large amount of data)
Although the idea had existed a long time in literature, this was the first time that is actually succeeded to let computers collaborate on a task on such a large scale, and achieve great efficientcy in doing so.