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Wired: "Two AI Pioneers. Two Bizarre Suicides. What Really Happened?"
I was looking around the Web for some Semantics, Knowledge Representation, and AI articles/info/etc. when I came across this interesting Wired article: “Two AI Pioneers. Two Bizarre Suicides. What Really Happened?”. Sad and fascinating at the same time.
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Reading Pre-Columbian Artifacts in Silverlight
Microsoft recently announced a partnership with the Library of Congress. Lee Dirks of Technical Computing @ Microsoft, jointly with other groups within Microsoft, supported the effort to bring information about pre-Columbian Artifacts on the Web, using Silverlight. Very cool.
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Excellent blog entry by Ian Foster
Happy New Year everyone. The first entry of 2008 relates to an excellent blog post by Ian Foster. The main differences I see between “Grids” and the “Cloud” are the concepts of “virtual organizations” and “sharing of resources” that the…
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Open Access to all NIH-funded research
This is great news for the Open Access movement!
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Off to Whistler!
After a couple of days of intense coding (lost almost an entire day fighting with inheritance and table mapping in Entity Framework Beta 3, which I really like btw), I am now ready to go for some much deserved skiing.…
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eResearch and Cloud Computing
The previous post reminded me of the talk I gave at SC07 about “The Web as the Platform for Research”. Bill St.Arnaud recently blogged about it (“Cloud computing is the way forward rather than the Grid”) with a quote from…
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More job openings
In addition to the Program Manager for Scholarly Communications position (thanks to all of those who have already contacted me) and the internship opportunities, here are two more openings in my extended team. These two job openings are not for…
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Intern opportunities in my team
Are you a PhD student in the US? Are you interested in working with a passionate team in Microsoft Research for few months? Do you want to experience life in Microsoft? Are you a professor and have students who might…
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We really work hard in Microsoft
As Dan said, Microsoft Research moved to a new building at the beginning of November. It’s really nice. Today, I was walking by a section of the 4th floor with ‘open’ offices (no-wall offices… yes, they even have numbers). They…
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Another "Cloud" Service from Amazon: SimpleDB
Here’s another simple, still very interesting, service from Amazon, with an interesting payment model. It’s called SimpleDB and it allows queries over structured data. It’s great to see Amazon delivering such services. I do hope that others, including my company,…
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Job opportunity in my team
Are you excited about scholarly communications, libraries, open access, repositories for research output, semantics, ontologies, academic tools for research? Do you want to interact with clever people around the world and inside Microsoft? Would you like to work with Lee…
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I love trains
Trains are my preferred way of traveling, while buses are my worst because I get motion sickness when I try to read. I am on a National Express (ex-GNER… I didn’t know about this) train from London to Newcastle. I…
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In Qatar
I am in Qatar for work-related meetings. This is my second day and still no luggage. I had to go cloth shopping. Traveled half way around the world to go to a mall 🙁 Tony Hey and I went swimming…
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Woo hoo… the ski season is here!
I heard on the radio that the local ski resorts were going to be open from today. Unfortunately, I can’t go this weekend. If I am not in Qatar next weekend for a work-related meeting, I am definitely going. Today,…
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Seattle Half-Marathon 🙁
I didn’t do the same mistakes as the last Seattle Half-Marathon but I did do the same as the Vanvouver one. I was prepared for the cold, proper runner’s t-shirt and long-sleeved top, gloves, hat, etc. The weather turned out…