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Chemistry addin for Word available as Open Source
It’s soooo great to see the Chemistry addin for Word (previously known as “Chem4Word”) on Codeplex as an open source project. Congratulations to all the folks over at External Research and to Alex Wade in particular for driving this wonderful…
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Word add-in for Ontology Recognition
I have written about the Word add-in for Ontology Recognition (the focus of the BioLit project) in the past. The project was also mentioned in my contribution to the Fourth Paradigm book and our “A smart’ cyberinfrastructure for Research” article.…
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“Think Biker”
Next time you get that steering wheel in your hands, think of us bikers… Great British commercial. Check out the “making of” as well for some of the thinking…
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The winner of the “Zentity Dojo challenge” at Dev8D
The Zentity folks at MSR’s External Research group (Lee Dirks, Alex Wade, and Oscar Naim) and the wonderful guys at the University of Southampton, School of Engineer Sciences (Steven Johnston, Mark Scott, Kenji Takeda, Simon Cox, and Less Carr) organized…
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Choo Choo train in downtown Seattle
Remember the “No pants light rail ride“? This time we did a “Choo Choo train” in downtown Seattle 🙂 Like before, it was organized by the “Emerald City Improv“. That was last Sunday and it was soooo much fun. There…
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My “Olympic” Vancouver weekend
It’s been some time since my last “travel” blog entry. I still plan to write about the fun/skiing week in Italy but I am not finding the free time to finish the video I am editing 🙁 Last weekend, I…
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The Zentity team is soliciting feedback
The Zentity team is soliciting your feedback. They just broadcasted a message that I thought might be good to redistribute through this blog as well. Please note that the deadline for paper submission is FAST approaching. I’m looking forward to…
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“To Risk” by William Arthur Ward
Today at yoga (yes, I woke up at 5.15am again for a 6.30 class ), our lovely instructor Jen shared a poem with us that I really liked: “To laugh is to risk appearing a fool, To weep is to…
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My Twitter and Facebook streams will soon get a divorce
I use my social streams and digital recordings of what I do in real life as part of a personal mutli-year investigation into semantics and digital memory. For some time now, my Twitter steam was mirrored to my Facebook one…
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Science Commons Symposium – Pacific Northwest
I just remembered that the Science Commons Symposium is taking place this coming Saturday. It’s promising to be a very cool event, organized by my friends over at External Research in Microsoft Research. I am really looking forward to it.…
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Blaise amazes again
When Blaise first presented Photosynth at TED few years ago, everyone was amazed. Well, the work that he’s been doing over at Bing Maps is starting to show off and it’s absolutely wonderful. I just watched his recent presentation on…
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Cloud Computing economics and developers
I am really enjoying the work that my new team does. We are a Cloud-focused team. I am really looking forward to when we are going to be in a position to talk in public about what we are building.…
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The “No Pants Light Rail Ride” event
Last Sunday, Michele, Dave, and I participated in the “No Pants Light Rail Ride” event. Similar events take place in major US cities every year. This one was the first one in Seattle. It was an absolute blast. We had…
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Tony Hey is BLOGGING (finally!!! 🙂
It’s been long time in the making but, finally, Tony is blogging 🙂 In fact, it seems that the entire External Research team might be posting through the same blog. Definitely worth following! And no, I am not just saying…
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“Small Pleasures”
Last February, I linked to a video, which I thought was very powerful, from Konstantinos Pilavios. Here’s another one called “Small Pleasures” (make sure you watch it all the way to the end). Small Pleasures (?????? ?a???) 2008 from MovieTeller…