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What a week! (and new toys)
This has been an extremely busy week. It’s been the first time since my PhD I actually stayed at the office overnight and continued working throughout the next day non-stop; and I did that twice in the week. We hosted…
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John W. Backus, 82, Fortran Developer, Dies – New York Times
John W. Backus, who assembled and led the I.B.M. team that created Fortran, the first widely used programming language, which helped open the door to modern computing, died on Saturday at his home in Ashland, Ore. He was 82. Link…
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R2D2 as a letter box!
I went to the US Postal Services website to let them know of my upcoming change of address and I saw an R2D2 moving around. A quick search on the Web revealed that for the 30th anniversary of StarWars, R2D2…
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BPEL for Windows Workflow Foundation March CTP
I just read on the Web about the availability of this package from Microsoft. Cool. I knew a CTP was coming but didn’t know when. I’ve been trying to explain to scientific workflow people that Windows Workflow is a generic…
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Steven is joining Microsoft
Woo hoo! I’ve been waiting to blog about this for some time. Steven Newhouse is joining Microsoft and the HPC team. The OMII has a blog post about it. I’ve known Steven since I returned to Newcastle in 2003 and…
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New skis, bindings, and boots
This must be one of the smartest purchases I’ve made. My Salomon X-Frees have been getting really really old; I bought them 6 or 7 years ago. I have been demoing various skis throughout the season but last Saturday I…
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SecPAL Preview
A group of people I really like in Microsoft (they are a fun team) released their very interesting work as a preview. This type of work is very relevant to cross-organization collaboration, virtual organizations, Grids, etc. “The Security Policy Assertion…
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TechFest, Technical Computing, and Steve Balmer
I am having a blast these days even though it’s been pretty busy (especially with the condo buying process in motion). Yesterday we had a full day of presentations from my group’s various interantional collaborators. It was great to see…
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Minority Report-like human-computer interaction
This prototype implementation looks very cool. If the idea takes off, we may finally find ourselves doing some exercise while working 🙂 For some time now, Microsoft’s visitor center has been showcasing a similar concept for the Windows Live Local data. However, nothing…
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Technical Computing @ Microsoft site up
Our Technical Computing @ Microsoft (my team’s web site) is live. Woo hoo! No feed for changes yet or blog aggregation but all is coming! This is just v1.0. URLs that will direct you there: http://www.microsoft.com/science, http://www.microsoft.com/tc, http://www.microsoft.com/technicalcomputing.
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Soya: An SSDL Framework implementation
A tear almost went down my face. I am so happy to see Patric‘s work finally out there. Patric says: After almost 4 months of development I’ve uploaded the first release of Soya yesterday night =) Please feel free to browse…
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Transitioning to Windows Live Domains
I am going to move the administration of my domain to Windows Live Domains. I hope the process is seamless but if this site disappears for a while, you’ll know something went wrong. What prompted this? Well, yesterday Google mail…
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Buying a condo
It’s been a while since I started considering the purchase of my own place here in Seattle. In February, I started the process and at the beginning of this week I made an offer for a great condo in West…
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i’m!
Well done to Microsoft. The “i’m” is a great initiative. Using Windows Live Messenger, every time I start a conversation with “i’m” a donation is made to my organization of choice (from a short list). I’ve chosen to support Unicef and will also…
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What does my calendar have to do with parallelism?
I have been trying for ages to get together with Steve Maine for lunch. Since I changed groups, it’s almost impossible and since I left building 42, I don’t see him in the corridor for a short chat. Both our…