Supporting the Scholarly Communication Lifecycle

18 years ago

Lee Dirks has been leading our efforts in the Scholarly Communication lifecycle. It's been an absolutely pleasure working with Lee…

.NetMap available on CodePlex

18 years ago

.NetMap start a series of announcements by our group today. Marc Smith and his team have done a great job…

Open Web Foundation

18 years ago

Google, BBC, Facebook, and other big names sponsor the "Open Web Foundation". They are ignoring W3C and OASIS! Ok... you…

Amazon’s recent S3 problems

18 years ago

A great read for those, like me, who are into large-scale systems. See what happened in S3's recent 9-hour downtime…

“Ahead in the Cloud” – Werner Vogel’s

18 years ago

Werner Vogel just finished his "Ahead in the Cloud" talk here at the DISC 08 workshop. As always, very entertaining.…

The 2008 Microsoft eScience Workshop

18 years ago

My friend and colleague Kris Tolle is responsible this year for all things related to the 2008 Microsoft eScience Workshop.…

Three day of Mapping and Reducing…

18 years ago

I am spending today, tomorrow, and Friday at the University of Washington at an NSF-funded workshop on how to use…

Amusing analogy of Google’s daily processing power

18 years ago

20 Petabytes/day! Now, how much is that in rice units? :-)... "I never knew Google was THIS massive!"

Yup… Resources and WS are making the news again

18 years ago

I remember the conversation going something like this a couple of years ago(paraphrasing for dramatization purposes :-)... - (My manager…

“So You Say You Want to Kill XML…”

18 years ago

Great post by Ted Neward on Google's Protocol Buffers (see also my previous short comment). (via Stefan's post)