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At MGX
I am in Orlando for Microsoft‘s MGX event. I am here to make sure everything goes well with one of the demos in Craig Mundie‘s keynote speech. I have been managing the development of the prototype and the interactions with…
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26 Nobel Prize Winners sign another letter to the US Congress
This is about open access to publicly funded research. Not that my opinion has the weight of these Nobel Prize winners but I am agreeing nevertheless 🙂
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I am back!
I had already mentioned I was in Glastonbury (panoramas) and then stayed in the UK for few days for work-related meetings (e.g. Nature visit). After the UK I went to Greece for few days of holidays. I saw my family…
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Some panorama fun
I installed the beta of Windows Live Photo Gallery, which supports panoramic stitching, so I played around a bit. Manycore Computing Workshop 07 Glastonbury 07 This last one is really nice, from the Pyramid stage before the Keizer Chiefs…
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Nature visit
I was at Nature Publishing Group‘s offices in London today to meet with Timo Hannay (Director of Web Publishing), Ian Mulvary (Product Development Manager), and Euan Adie (Product Development Manager). Wow! These folks are doing really cool stuff. More importantly,…
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Glastonbury mudness 🙂
I am in London for some work-related meetings and relaxing after what was an excellent Glastonbury. Yes, it rained. Yes, everything I was carrying with me got really really wet. Yes, I got wet to the bone while waiting under the…
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Manycore Computing Workshop 07
The Manycore Computing Workshop 07, sponsored by my team, was a great success. It was great to see such a large part of the Parallel/Manycore Computing community coming together to exchange ideas and participate in discussions on “manycores for general…
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The "Research" Ribbon Tab
I’ve been out of coding practice (too much program management) so I decided to spend few hours today learning something new and starting a project I always wanted to do since I joined Tony Hey‘s group. The “Research” Ribbon tab…
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Computational tools to help with research for AIDS vaccine
As Dan says, there are really no words to describe this. Well done to the entire team over at MSR for doing this. If I wasn’t so busy with other things, there would have been a service somewhere in there…
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SecPAL v1.1 is out
My pals over at the SecPAL team have released a new version of their framework for declaratively capturing authorization policies in large-scale distributed systems (yeah… yeah… ok… “Grid” systems 🙂 This is fantastic work. They just released a minor update…
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Stealing Google laptops 🙂
I was recently pointed to this post by Richard Charkin who “stole” Google laptops as a way of protesting. Funny.
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Surfacing Computing
I can think of some great opportunities for scientific tools for data exploration/visualization, collaboration, social networking, etc. Just look at some of the example applications. Amazing stuff.
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Thinking of buying a motorcycle
I am seriously considering buying a motorcyle (touring or dual sport). I’ve been looking around and I think I like the BMWs. Dual sport: F640 GS R1200 GS Touring: F800 ST R1200 ST I think I like the R1200 GS…
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At Google’s offices in New York
After a long week of visits at Cornell, MIT, and Harvard, I had few days of holidays in New York (I love this city). As always when I am visiting a city (this was my second time in NY), I…