• ReactGraph Part 5 – A user’s feed via “pull” and “push” graph queries

    ReactGraph Part 5 – A user’s feed via “pull” and “push” graph queries

    Investigation into bringing together graph and reactive computing. This fifth post in the series showcases slightly more complex LINQ-to-graph and Rx types queries for both “pull” and “push” type computation. ReactGraph Part 1: Graphs and Reactive Computing – Historical Context…

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  • ReactGraph Part 4 – First (Re)Active Queries

    ReactGraph Part 4 – First (Re)Active Queries

    Investigation into bringing together graph and reactive computing. This fourth post in the series showcases LINQ-to-graph and Rx types queries for both “pull” and “push” type computation. ReactGraph Part 1: Graphs and Reactive Computing – Historical Context ReactGraph Part 2:…

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  • ReactGraph Part 3 – The Data Model

    ReactGraph Part 3 – The Data Model

    Investigation into bringing together graph and reactive computing. This is the third post in the series and deals with the platform’s data model. ReactGraph Part 1: Graphs and Reactive Computing – Historical Context ReactGraph Part 2: Remote evaluation of continuous…

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  • ReactGraph Part 2: Remote evaluation of continuous queries

    ReactGraph Part 2: Remote evaluation of continuous queries

    Investigation into bringing together graph and reactive computing. This is the second post in the series and deals with the remote evaluation of continuous queries. ReactGraph – Part 1: Graphs and Reactive Computing – Historical Context What’s an IQbservable? In…

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  • ReactGraph – Part 1: Graphs and Reactive Computing – Historical Context

    ReactGraph – Part 1: Graphs and Reactive Computing – Historical Context

    Over the last few weeks, as a spare time side project, I’ve been experimenting with a concept that has been circulating in my head for few years now. I’ve been trying to form an opinion, by writing code, around questions…

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  • One Assistant, Personalized, Device Ubiquity, All Services

    One Assistant, Personalized, Device Ubiquity, All Services

    I couldn’t agree more with Viv‘s principles as articulated by Dag Kittlaus in his presentation earlier today. I met with the Viv team about 2 years ago. I was very impressed by their leadership team and their work. However, Facebook managed…

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  • Application protocol over a WebSocket?

    While working on a demonstrator app for the Reactive + Graph system I’ve been building in my spare time, I found myself wanting to implement a RESTful app protocol on top of WebSockets for in-browser app <-> service communication. I…

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  • The “A” in AI should stand for “Aspirational”

    The “A” in AI should stand for “Aspirational”

    Perhaps the “A” in “AI” should stand for “Aspired” for the years to come 🙂

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  • Are you using a digital personal assistant?

    Are you using a digital personal assistant?

    One of the design principles we established early with Cortana was the fact that a personal digital assistant is much more than just speech and conversational understanding, more than questions & answers, more than command & control of a device. By…

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  • Sharing my thanks… PCs for my primary school

    Sharing my thanks… PCs for my primary school

    Few years ago, the 3rd graders (at the time) from my primary school in Petinos (my village) reached out to me for a conversation/interview over Skype. I started following their progress and even visited them at the school on occassions.…

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  • Wearable devices and natural user interfaces

    Wearable devices and natural user interfaces

    As an advertisement, I find the video below really bad. However, the portrayed product features are an example of the transition towards more advanced and standalone wearable technology. Device form factors get smaller and can host software that is capable of addressing many of our communication,…

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  • Playing with move semantics in C++ – Part 2

    Playing with move semantics in C++ – Part 2

    (Playing with move semantics in C++ – Part 1) In this second part, we take a look at what happens when an object stores a reference to another one, effectively not controlling its lifetime. An rvalue reference is required as…

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  • Playing with move semantics in C++ – Part 1

    Playing with move semantics in C++ – Part 1

    (Kjell Schubert contributed to these posts with ideas, discussion, feedback, and corrections). I did a lot of C++ programming back in the 90s when the language didn’t have universal references, move semantics, lambdas, shared_ptrs, or any of the cool features…

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  • We need all disciplines

    We need all disciplines

    The “revenge of the nerds” short economist post links to a report about the “return of investment” for college degrees  There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that education is important and that it should be easily accessible to everyone.…

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  • Leadership insights from a NASA flight director

    Earlier today, I attended a talk by Gene Kranz (NASA flight director during the Gemini and Apollo programs). I seriously enjoyed his insights into leadership, teamwork, org structure, determination, focus, and TRUST amongst teammates. It was interesting to hear about…

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