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Photos: Zurich airport at sunset and after the rain, Greek food!
So, I arrived in Greece and it’s already been fantastic. After a long trip that saw me waiting at Heathrow for 6 hours, at Zurich airport for 3, I finally arrived in Thessaloniki. My friend Kostas picked me up from…
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"How Do I Model State? Let Me Count the Ways"
Long time ago, in a galaxy far away… there was OGSI, there was WSRF, there was HTTP, there were services… and there were heated discussions 🙂 Ian Foster suggested that we write a paper together explaining our different approaches in…
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Radiohead at the White River Amphitheater
I found last-minute tickets for the Radiohead gig at the White River Amphitheater last night. It was absolutely amazing; loved it! The venue is great and it was absolutely packed. Here are some photos… A panorama of the venue before…
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Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)
EBS is another great service from Amazon. The company continues to innovate. Werner had talked about this service in the past but now it’s available. Well done Amazon! The Amazon Web Services Blog has more. I found the pricing model…
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Chem4Word project
One of the projects on which I’ve been spending lots of my time is the Chem4Word one. Alex Wade is driving the project and just published a page for the world to see. The team over at the University of…
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Extending "Famulus" using arbitrary data models
“Famulus” has always been the codename for our “Research Output Repository Platform”, which I’ve discussed in previous posts. I am mentioning the codename in public for the first time only now because it makes the discussion of code samples so…
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Tony Hey interviewed by Jon Udell
You can listen to the interview and/or read the transcript on “on10”.
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Having coding fun the Web 2.0 way
I’ve been working on a personal project for a month now. You’ll hear more about it in the coming months 🙂 As part of the coding part of the project, I’ve had to work against Google‘s authentication, YouTube, and GData…
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Our wonderful interns
Earlier this week I organized a BBQ gathering at my place for the great interns working with us this summer. I’ve been working with interns in two separate projects… Datacenter-related in collaboration with James Hamilton and Dan Reed‘s Data Center…
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Stunning visualization from the BBC
Paul Watson sent me a link to this short clip showing really stunning visualizations. I wonder whether we could reuse the technology for scientific data.
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F# for Scientists
I saw Tony Hey earlier this week holding the “F# for Scientists” book so I had to check it out. Very very cool! I love it that F# is being productized and will be soon in the hands of developers.…
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“3rd Annual Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science”
While at the Faculty Summit, I talked with Ian Foster again who pointed me to the 3rd Annual Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computing Science. It looks very interesting and relevant to some of the work we are doing…
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Lee on Channel 8
In the first of a series of videos related to our recent announcements in the Scholarly Communication lifecycle space, Lee Dirks talks on Channel 8. Fun!!! 🙂
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Research Output Repository Platform
Yes, I know the name is boring. We have a better name but we weren’t able to secure it internationally in time for Faculty Summit. Anyway… “Research Output Repository Platform” will have to be for now. I talked about our…
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Creative Commons Addin for Office 2007
When I joined Technical Computing, now part of External Research, we wanted to create an ecosystem of tools and services to support researchers worldwide. Today we announced the results of some of our efforts; there is still more going on.…