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Knowledge Representation and Reasoning in 2012
Happy New Year everyone! 2011 was a slow year for this blog. Early last year I joined Erik Meijers team in order to work on an incubation project that involved actors, distributed graph-based processing, a highly-scalable and reliable document store, and more. Given the non-public nature of the project, I couldn’t really talk about it.…
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A crazy Savas trip 🙂
When Lee Dirks asked me to represent the Microsoft Research Connections team at a Digital Public Library of America meeting at Harvard Law School in Boston, I immediately checked my calendar. The DPLA folks are starting a wonderful new journey of defining a platform for digital libraries so they needed input from industry Software Architects.…
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XLDB 2011 conference – Observations
Granted, Netflix had to build their own pipeline based on open source technologies. They used the right tool for the job. They used a NoSQL solution for reliably gathering/recording their data at scale. They used an RDBMS where it made sense. Netflix is a big company. They can build their own data processing infrastructure from…
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My gas consumption is definitely going down 🙂
I moved to the US in September of 2005. I set a goal for myself to stay organized with regards to my finances and collect as much data as possible for data analysis. Since then, every single entry in my credit card statements is explicitly reviewed and categorized. I used Microsoft Money and then Quicken…
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Steve Jobs, 1955 – 2011
To me Steve represents the perfect example of a visionary, a creator, leader, an artist, a world changer. In my eyes, the world is a better, more beautiful place, because of Steve. Source: apple.com, Oct 5, 2011 Steve Jobs
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Glastonbury 2011
Another year, another Glastonbury!!! And as always, it didn’t disappoint. This year it was a different experience for me but it was still a lot of fun! 🙂 It was the first Glastonbury since 2004 that I didn’t experience on my own. Mary was with me, which meant that camping with a small tent, no…
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Implementing an Actor in C# with Task Continuations
We are having fun at work with some investigation work in the NoSQL space. We’ve been playing with actors in our distributed system. There has been a lot of prior work in this space so we are not really doing anything new with actors but it’s still fun. Scala, F#, Erlang, and many others have…
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New challenge
It was more than 18 months that I moved to the Technical Computing organization inside Microsoft. I had joined a startup team that worked on building a platform for large-scale compute and data processing on top of Azure. It was an amazing experience. We worked hard, produce great results, and learnt a lot. I met…
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“It’s up to us to write what happens next… together”
I hadn’t come across the “HOME” movie before. I watched it earlier today. Our home, the planet that we call Earth, deserves at least 1 1/2h of our time. Please please please watch this movie in its entirety!!! The cinematography is spectacular; the narration really beautiful; the conveyed message powerful, inspiring, moving. Make sure you…
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Squaw Valley skiing weekend
The last weekend of January I traveled to California to meet with Jim and Emil for a weekend of skiing at Squaw Valley. We were treated with an excellent weather on Saturday and amazing new 20-30cm snow on Sunday. Soooooo much fun! I hadn’t seen my pal Jim for a long time so I really…