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Middle Ages Tech Support
My colleague Lee Dirks and I are visiting Cornell, MIT, and Harvard over the next few days, before I go to New York for few days of holidays and then an OAI-ORE meeting. While at the meeting with the arXiv…
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Microsoft PopFly
Wow! I started using PopFly today and is sooooo cool! The “Create Mashup” tool is effectively dataflow (very much like Yahoo Pipes!) built using Silverlight so you can use it on the Mac too. The “Create Page” is also interesting…
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The Manycore Computing Workshop
Over the last couple of months, I’ve been organizing the Manycore Computing workshop, sponsored by my group. I’ve had the pleasure of interacting with top people from the industry and academia while putting together the program and list of attendees…
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Pat Helland is back in the blogosphere
Woo hoo! He’s back and he’s full of energy! I got to spend some time with Lisa and Pat at Mix07 and had a blast with them. They did try to get me drunk and almost succeeded. I’ll have to…
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Tony Hey’s slides on "The Social Grid"
Tony Hey‘s slides on “The Social Grid” are now available (6.5MB PDF). This talk focused on the value of using the Web and its existing, stable technologies to deliver value to eScience. It also encouraged the Grid community to consider modern…
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In W3C
It’s so nice to see Jim here. We are about to embark on some pair-coding. The landscape around the conference’s hotel is just breathtaking.
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On my way to Banff for W3C’s WWW 2007
In few hours I will be flying to Banff for the WWW 2007 conference. Jim is also going to be there. Paul as well. Also, many others from the Web community so I am really looking forward to meeting everyone.
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Vancouver half-marathon
Well, the Vancouver half marathon over. I am not very pleased with my performance. I knew that I wasn’t prepared as well I should have been, so I guess I should have expected this. I finished in around 2h3m (2…
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Social lending
Social networking is truly becoming part of our day-to-day lives. The Web is enabling some amazing scenarios. BBC is running a story on “social lending”, which I found interesting, especially the relation of the approach to microfinancing.
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DigiDesk workstation
I want one of these. Imagine how useful for scientific computing this would be. I don’t expect to get one but I am going to ask anyway 🙂
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Fast RDF search engine
Cooool. “Researchers at the National University of Ireland, Galway’s (NUIG) Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) have developed a search engine that can answer search queries with more than seven billion RDF statements in mere fractions of a second, which is…
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SecondLife here I come
Both my previous laptop’s and my current one’s graphic cards were from ATI’s FireGL Mobility range (i.e. tuned for CAD and digital media content management applications). This meant that the drivers were not really targeting games. I was never able…
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Mix 07 – A great experience so far
I took the opportunity to watch two shows in Las Vegas, while waiting for Mix 07 to start. “ Love “, a Cirque du Soleil production. I really enjoyed it. The colors, the music by Beattles, the acrobatics! However, I…
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Dataflow and Manycore architectures
I have been gaining a lot of program management experience managing my team’s activities in the Many/Multicore area. I am even organizing a workshop in this area in June (more in a week or so). We have a very close interaction with Intel,…
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Woo hoo! I exist again.
For almost a week now I felt as if I didn’t exist. Not having a Web presence and not having personal email has been a weird experience. After for some many years counting on my personal domain name (savas.parastatidis.name), it…