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Jim Gray is missing…
… but he’s going to turn up soon, I am sure. “Coast Guard searches for missing Microsoft researcher”
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Interesting directions for UIs
Here’s an example where a physics engine is utilized in the management of documents. I don’t actually like the interface for day-to-day activities but I can see how useful ideas/technologies can be extracted and integrated in modern desktop/applications user interfaces.…
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WPF-based Netflix UI
Found this cool app for managing my Netflix queue (via Kostas’ blog). Nice!
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"Petition for guaranteed public access to publicly-funded research results"
I got the following email from the Public Library of Science and signed their petition. If you agree, please consider signing it too. Dear PLoS Letter Signers, We are writing to you because you signed the PLoS open letter some…
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Antispam for pblog
I have been getting so many spam comments, I’ve decided to spend few minutes adding antispam support for pblog. I suspect that the spammers will manage to bypass the very simple protection I’ve built but it’ll do for now. Please…
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Windows Live Academic Search and Word 2007
Yesterday, I was talking with Mike Buschman of Windows Live Academic Search and I set myself a challenge: I suggested to him that I could demonstrate the integration of scholarly publication search directly within Word 2007, all during the course of the presentation we were…
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Open Repositories 2007
I arrived at San Antonio today for the Open Repositories 2007 conference (I am surprised they don’t have a unique URI for the 2007 conference site, at least not yet). Tony Hey will be giving the closing keynote on Friday. We…
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URIs considered harmful?
How about that? Remember the discussions from months ago (“WS-Web” and “Names and Addresses – a different view”) about the identity of resources and their relationship to HTTP URIs? I just read this story about Netscape taking down the resource representation…
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I am the GridMaster 🙂
Well, it had to happen at some point… a Grid game 🙂 I saved humanity from a volcano erruption, an eartquake, the avian flu, and I’ve even found aliens; all with the power of Grid computing!!! Via Dan.
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Open Access and the "social web" for physics
Paul Watson pointed me to the January 2007 issue of the “Physics world”. You’ll notice a number of articles related to open access and the impact of Web to scholary publication and the peer review process. It’s funny how not…
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Wow! Don Ferguson at Microsoft
I just read that Don Ferguson has joined Microsoft. Very cool!
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Nice iPhone "news items" 🙂
These are funny.
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Bill Gates and Steve Jobs keynotes
I just finished watching Bill Gates‘ keynote at CES from last Sunday (I know, I should have been reviewing papers instead). I watched Steve Jobs‘ keynote at Macworld from yesterday. Wow! The geek in me cannot wait for all the things that…
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Panos is here
Panos is visiting Microsoft and he’s staying in Seattle for few days. It’s great to see him. Need to think what we are going to be doing over the weekend. I went to pick him up from building 41 today…
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CCGrid 2007 reviews!
It’s 4.40am and I just finished my 10 (!!!) paper reviews for CCGrid 2007. Hmmm… I will think hard before I accept another invitation to join a Grid-related Program Committee. I read some really poor papers, with no attention to…