2007

I knew about the rest of the new features but I hadn’t heard about ‘automatic properties’ (or I’d heard and forgot). Cool.

Ok… I don’t usually advertise Microsoft products (in fact, I don’t think I’ve ever done that), but this deal is pretty cool.* If you are a student, you can get Microsoft Office Ultimate for $59.95 (that’s VERY VERY cheap**). There is a UK version as well.   * and also …

I was reading the Wired “Inside the High Tech Hunt for a Missing Silicon Valley Legend” article again :-( I never stop to be amazed with how many peoples’ lives and careers touched over the years. I looked again at the last few messages he sent me (the very last …

The recent “Does SOA need MEST on top of REST?” article brought MEST back into the news, which is great. Jim and I talked about these ideas on how to reason about service- and message-oriented systems more than 2 years ago (just look at the date my last long MEST-related …

/**/ I’ve started interacting with Evelyne Viegas lately and I have found that we are thinking alike when it comes to semantics. I am really looking forward to working with her more closely to advance the agenda within Microsoft. I think we can do great stuff together, especially now that …

I was invited (in place of Fabrizio Gagliardi who couldn’t make it) to keynote at an EGEE workshop in Thessaloniki. Given the industry focus of the workshop and the discussion around Grid computing adoption, I am planning to talk about some observations that Tony and I have made in the …

/**/ The other day I almost had a “close encounter” with another car, after having got the exit from SR-520 and was turning into 40th towards Microsoft’s main campus. I was in the middle lane, as always, and ready to turn right. As you can see from the map below, …

Not many people would have read the SIGGRAPH 2007 paper on “Seam Carving for Content-Aware Image Resizing” (pdf). So I love how the researchers used YouTube to present their ideas. As this post (original source of the story) indicates, Dr. Shamir was immediately hired by Adobe. Cool algorithm and great …

As my sweet friend Colette says, it was a beautiful day. Here’s a poem to finish it :-) (by lemn sissay)

My very good friend Colette is visiting from Vancouver for few days. Last night we agreed to wake up at 3.30am to see the lunar eclipse from my balcony. The sky was clear (amazing for Seattle :-) and the view was fantastic; something like this… (credit: Astronomy for Beginners) The …

After posting my last entry on the ThinkWeek paper, it occurred to me that I haven’t mentioned the fact that my team, Technical Computing @ Microsoft, is part of Microsoft Research now. Yes, exciting times even though not part of my plan when I joined Microsoft. You see, two years …

Today Roger Barga* and I submitted a ThinkWeek** paper. It’s my first since I joined Microsoft and I am really excited about it. Roger of course has submitted a number in his long and successful career in Microsoft Research. I thought that my first ThinkWeek paper would be on ‘data …

We first met on October 1st, 1996, when we ended up sharing an office in Newcastle while starting our PhDs (we started on the same date and we finished 4 years later with only few hours difference… he finished ahead of me by few hours but I got through the …

It’s done!

It’s been like this for 2 days now :-( and it doesn’t seem to be getting any better. WHERE IS THE SUMMER???

HPTS is not going to be the same with Jim still missing. However, I am looking forward to attending and contributing, through my participation, to this excellent meeting that my Microsoft mentor had been organizing all these years. I just received the official invitation from Pat, who took over as …