Some of you might know that Bob Dylan is amongst my favorite artists. I’ve seen him only twice so I can’t wait to see him again. Probably sometime this year since he’s touring again to support his new album. So I love the way that WolframAlpha answers the question. “How …
Just noticed from his tweet feed that Jim is going to be sharing his brains through the Web. I suspect (haven’t talked to him about this yet) that he’s going to present most of the thinking that we are putting in our Web book. I know that I am biased …
/**/ As part of our Scholarly Communications-related activities in Atlanta (check out my previous post about Zentity v1.0), Alex Wade is going to talk tomorrow about a cool service: Translator. The web form-based translation does not represent anything new but check out the AJAX-based service. If you notice on the …
/**/ I am in Atlanta for the Open Repositories 09 where I’ve joined the rest of the Scholarly Communications gang (Lee Dirks, Alex Wade, Pablo Fernicola, and of course Tony Hey). Tony Hey just announced the general availability of Zentity v1.0 (download). It’s been a loooong but very rewarding road …
In the next few days I’ll be posting and tweeting about all the MSR-related activities at the Open Repositories 09 conference. I am going there to join the MSRScholarly Communications gang (Lee Dirks, Alex Wade, and Pablo Fernicola) and of course Tony Hey. As I had previously mentioned, we are …
I’ve been following all the hype and discussions around Wolfram|Alpha. In few hours it’ll go live. I’ve been lucky enough to have played with it and I like it a lot. I can totally see its potential. I believe that the direction Stephen Wolfram and his team are taking to …
Few nights ago, my friends Sophie and David came over for dinner with my parents. It was a lovely evening. During the dinner conversation, my father said the following joke that I think captures the Greek mentality towards work, especially by public sector employees. I am sure that every nation …
If you are interested in publishing, equations, Scholarly Communications technologies, or if you just want to learn from a great developer and a really fantastic guy, then I highly recommend Murray’s blog. He’s a Microsoft veteran and amongst the nicest guys I’ve met in the company. Also, he’s one of …
Paul Watson, my PhD supervisor, has recently started using twitter. I really love the fact that he’s stays in touch with all the recent technologies :-) Amongst other things, he tweets about the Digital Inclusion Hub, an initiative in the UK for which Newcastle has been awarded 12M UKP. That’s …