The book “Workflows for e-Science: Scientific Workflows for Grids” is now available. Amongst the chapters in the book, you’ll find one on the SC SSDL Protocol Framework. Congrats to Simon Woodman who did most of the work on this chapter and to the editors for putting the book together. Read …
(I am back in Seattle, some notes about my trip to the UK will follow) The “Web 2.0… The Machine is Us/ing US” video is a nice high-level illustration of the evolution of the Web (some call it ‘Web 2.0′).
Please review the “Search status” blog entry over at the “Tenacious Search” blog. I am still full of hope and anxiously awaiting for Jim to reply to my last message upon his return, in which I requested to hear about his adventure over beers!
While on my way to London, I’ve been doing some reading. I found “The Landscape of Parallel Computing Research: A View from Berkley” a great read.
DWave claims they have built the first quantum computer for commercial use. They are going after NP-complete problems, of course! I couldn’t find technical details on their web site but if this thing is fast and evaluates functional/dataflow graphs in parallel, I want one as my laptop :-) Read more …
In an interview to Stefan Tilkov, Arjen Poutsma, of Spring Web Services fame, had something nice to say about SSDL :-) Wouldn’t it be great if there were frameworks out there providing support for SSDL-like contract languages? I have been hard at evangelising SSDL within my company. Let’s see if anything comes out …
Interesting service: 46.713 publications by the top 229 Dutch academics. (via Tony Hey)
I am going to be traveling again from tomorrow. First, it’s Greece for few days to see my family and participate in my city’s carnival celebrations. Then I’ll be visiting the UK. I am going to be in Southampton and Microsoft Reading on the 21st, Manchester on the 22nd, and …
/**/ While preparing for an integration project with some of David Heckerman’s biology-related work, I thought of educating myself on how Excel 2007, .NET, and Web Services could be combined to play together. A lot of scientists use Excel in their day-to-day activities. So it makes sense to make functionality …
There has been no spam comments since I added the simple antispam functionality on pblog. However, since there was some confusion as to how to filter the numbers from the antispam string, I simplified it. Now, the antispam string has to be written as is. If spams start appearing again, …
/**/ Wow! This AJAX+WPF/E application simulates the Vista Aero interface inside the Web browser. The windows in the screenshot are actually hosted within the browser, even the video. Amazing. Read more [...]
It’s so nice to see the community getting together to find Jim. The efforts are reported on the “Tenacious Search” blog.
I’ve been constantly checking the Web for news about Jim and we get lots of information within Microsoft. Although the US Coast Guard is about to stop their search operations, the efforts to locate him are continuing. Google and Amazon are helping out and I’ve been told that even satellites and a …