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A wonderful weekend at Whistler
As I said in a previous post, I went to Whistler for few days. It was absolutely wonderful. I had a much needed downtime and enjoyed skiing. The first couple of days were fantastic. Sunday morning was really beautiful but…
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"Universal Parallel Computing Research Center" x 2
Today Microsoft and Intel announced a joint endeavor with UC Berkeley and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign around parallel computing. I’ve been heavily involved in this, coordinating Microsoft‘s engagement on the technical side of things. Remember that photo with all…
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Natural language processing-based search in Vista
Here’s a feature I didn’t know about. Alex Wade, who was the technical Program Manager responsible for this functionality in Windows Vista, showed me how to enable it. It’s a pity that such a great feature is disabled by default.…
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Our world needs more teachers like Antanas Mockus
This article is 4 years old but it’s the first time I read it. Antanas Mockus is not the mayor of Bogota anymore (according to Wikipedia). Definitely inspirational… I wonder how the world would look like if policy-making followed Mockus‘…
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WSJ – "Racing to Gain Edge on Multicore Chips"
As I mentioned last week, my group is about to make a big announcement. The WSJ article tells only half of the story. Stay tuned until tomorrow!
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Whistler
I was at Whistler last weekend and I am going there again in a couple of hours. Yes, I finally took some time off (today and tomorrow). Last weekend it was fantastic but didn’t really enjoy skiing. This week I…
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Pending announcement…
Finally, one of the big things I’ve been working on is coming into light… This is going to be a big announcement 🙂 More coverage and info next week.
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Minority Report-style interfaces seem to be gaining momentum
This is very impressive. From Engadget (update: as Dan pointed out, the video has been removed).
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The Age of Semantics
In a recent presentation by Tony Hey on “eScience and Semantic Computing” (large PDF), which is heavily influenced by Evelyne Viega’s and my ideas, the “ages of semantic computing” were presented (Evelyne’s idea) as a way to capture how our…
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Mac vs PC vs Linux
Jim just pointed me to this funny video. Very funny 🙂 (seen in Michael Calore’s blog)
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Great presentation of a research project
That’s what research is all about… having fun and being innovative 🙂 I love the way the “MySong” work is presented through this blog entry… examples, people having fun on camera, the paper, the science behind the project. Great stuff.
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Supercomputer Center
I am in San Diego with Lee Dirks. I’ve had very interesting meeting with Lynn Fink and co, Mark Ellisman and team, and Fran Berman and the technical/scientific leadership of the San Diego Supercomputer Center. It’s been a fantastic day.…
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World Wide Telescope
My team, and Dan Fay in particular, has been involved in the funding of the World Wide Telescope effort. I’ve seen demonstrations of it and it’s absolutely gorgeous. I was even lucky to see it running on a 4 x…
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Radiohead’s "In Rainbows"
When Radiohead released “In Rainbows” I downloaded it without paying. I had told myself then that if I liked it I would buy the CD, as I did today. Kudos to Radiohead for trying something different. Now, if they had…