Cory Doctorow of Boing Boing reports that Morgan & Claypool Publishers have decided to release an unfinished manuscript written by Aaron Swartz entitled A Programmable Web. Michael B. Morgan, CEO of the publishing house wrote, “In 2009, we invited Aaron Swartz to contribute a short work to our series on Web Engineering (now The Semantic Web: Theory and Technology). He produced a draft of about 40 pages — a ‘first version’ to be extended later — which unfortunately never happened.” Read more

Greg MacSweeney of Wall Street & Tech reports, “Technology’s role in helping financial institutions meet the increasing regulatory burden was front and center at SWIFT’s Operations Forum 2013 conference, with panelists commenting that cloud, big data and semantic technology will help organizations in the near future. With most experts estimating that the compliance price tag for the financial services industry will be in the billions of dollars, financial organizations are looking for ways to meet regulatory demands while simultaneously trying to reduce costs.” Read more