I wish for the world to be in a better place next year. May every moment of our lives in 2009 help us better understand our world and our fellow humans, come closer to our environment and protect it, push us to become better human beings. Be happy, love, and …
I’ve been playing with S-Expressions again. It’d have been sooooo great if the world had adopted them instead of XML. They are just so tidy.
1. You buy a new Cisco linksys wireless router (WRT160N) before Christmas since your old Linksys (WRT54G v5.0) is showing its age. Cost is $100 – $20 (promotional discount). 2. You realize that the new router is dropping the Internet connection so you decide to return it (but you can’t …
Great article by Werner Vogels.
Fascinating! Biotech revolution coming from people’s garages. :-) Excellent.
I’ve been looking at the OpenCyc Foundation’s Concept Browser page. I searched for the concept “product”. It took me to a helpful page that says: Each instance of sales product is a thing that exists in time that is, or was at one time, offered for sale or performed as …
/**/ Many of you might have heard about the snowstorms that have hit the US over the last week or so. I live on a hill, not far from Seattle’s downtown, called Queen Anne. The roads in my neighborhood get really icy every year, making driving around a very difficult …
As I was reading Sowa’s “Knowledge Representation – Logical, Philosophical, and Computational Foundations”, I noted few funny quotes. I don’t know whether Sowa heard them from others or they are his. Commenting on a bad but common practice: “Code first and think later”; Talking about the different views of the …
/**/ Continuing my previous experiment, I took few mins this morning to add support for “symmetric” relations to my little inferencing engine for Famulus. Here’s an example (starting with a clean Famulus store): Read more [...]
/**/ Working from home today, which is probably true for most around here. Nothing moves outside, at least in my neighborhood :-) Read more [...]
/**/ At the 2008 Microsoft eScience Workshop, Alex Wade and I presented a tutorial on Famulus. The video recording is not yet online but you can download the slides. The tutorial was mostly filled with demos so you should check out the recording when it becomes available. Alex and I …
James announced to the world (and it’s all over the tech news) that he’s moving to Amazon. This is a huge loss for Microsoft but I am super happy for James because, as he says in his blog post, change is good. Through my interactions with him, I came to …
If you are a RESTferian or REST-fanatic, please look away now. This is my regular rant about the term “REST” :-) <rant> I am seeing the term “REST” everywhere these days, as an annotation of things that obviously do not follow the architectural principles expressed in Fielding’s thesis. Also, when …
On Monday, Microsoft Research awarded my friend Prof. Carole Goble with the first ever “Jim Gray eScience Award”. I am very very very happy for Carole. She fully deserves it. She’s done and continues to do some amazing work in eScience. Congratulations Carole. BTW… Amongst the great things she’s done …
Just one day after my return back to Seattle, I flew to Indianapolis for the 2008 Microsoft eScience Workshop. The transition from the sunny Mexico to the cold and full of snow Indianapolis is fun :-) It’s great to be here and see this community before I start my new …
/**/ It’s been a wonderful experience. 17 days in the Yucatan peninsula and Belize, plus a daytrip to Guatemala. My love for road trips, for exploring, for being on the move all the time was reinforced by this trip. I feel lucky I had the opportunity to explore, for just …