World Brain - Final Year Project

The aim of this project is to create a method allowing websites to exchange user data between one another both upon the direct request of the user and as background processes

Current legislation regarding sharing of IP address information states that one cannot forward information that could be used for the identification of an individual user to a 3rd party - therefore the use of sites which have this software installed will have to be limited to those who agree with disclaimers regarding divulding user data - or annonymising the data in a way that the user can be tracked but their true identiy can no longer be gleaned by a 3rd party

The world brain - envisaged by H G Wells was to be a world encylopedia based on microfilm which allowed itself to be used a a central repository for data. The world brain is becoming a reality as semantic meaning is being added to the divergent data spread across the net. Convergence of all data types is the ultimate aim - so all data sources can be graded in terms of relevence and they can interact with one another

Neural networks allow computers to 'intelligently' recognise patterns in data as well as allowing them to classify it and perform large data mining tasks.