/**/ I installed the beta of Windows Live Photo Gallery, which supports panoramic stitching, so I played around a bit. Manycore Computing Workshop 07 Glastonbury 07 This last one is really nice, from the Pyramid stage before the Keizer Chiefs if I remember well. Read more [...]
I was at Nature Publishing Group’s offices in London today to meet with Timo Hannay (Director of Web Publishing), Ian Mulvary (Product Development Manager), and Euan Adie (Product Development Manager). Wow! These folks are doing really cool stuff. More importantly, however, they are interested in doing even cooler stuff to …
/**/ I am in London for some work-related meetings and relaxing after what was an excellent Glastonbury. Yes, it rained. Yes, everything I was carrying with me got really really wet. Yes, I got wet to the bone while waiting under the rain for more than 3 hours to catch the …
/**/ The Manycore Computing Workshop 07, sponsored by my team, was a great success. It was great to see such a large part of the Parallel/Manycore Computing community coming together to exchange ideas and participate in discussions on “manycores for general purpose computing”. The first day of the workshop, the …
/**/ I’ve been out of coding practice (too much program management) so I decided to spend few hours today learning something new and starting a project I always wanted to do since I joined Tony Hey’s group. The “Research” Ribbon tab will allow people to consume various research-related services and …
As Dan says, there are really no words to describe this. Well done to the entire team over at MSR for doing this. If I wasn’t so busy with other things, there would have been a service somewhere in there to expose the functionality via SOAP/XML over HTTP :-( It’s …
My pals over at the SecPAL team have released a new version of their framework for declaratively capturing authorization policies in large-scale distributed systems (yeah… yeah… ok… “Grid” systems :-) This is fantastic work. They just released a minor update that you should definitely check out. I hadn’t realized that …
I was recently pointed to this post by Richard Charkin who “stole” Google laptops as a way of protesting. Funny.