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Indio-UK e-Science Workshop
Phew. We are just about to wrap up the workshop. It’s been interesting to see how relationships between research efforts across countries are established, how strategies are formed and get fed to policy makers, and the political games played between academics (at least at this part of the world). The students from the Computing Science…
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India so far
I am having an excellent time in India. The people here are very nice. I’ve been invited to give a guest lecture in Gujarat (I hope I got it right). The Indo-UK e-Science Workshop is finishing tomorrow so I will have some time to do some site-seeing.
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Fantastic! I wish I could be there!
Flash Mob I: Creating an ad-hoc supercomputer! Thanks to Brian Randell for the link.
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The Spirit rover going to sleep…
and then getting a wake up call from earth. Some info on how the software problem with the Spirit rover was fixed.
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Interesting read
“When Not to Use an SOA” by Jason Bloomberg. This may be of special interest to those participating in the internal discussion on the relationship between service-orientation and object-orientation that is taking place within the school.
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Messaging and SOA
I agree with John de Vadoss on this one.
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ObjectSpaces in Whidbey
ObjectSpaces is an interesting addition to the next version of ADO.NET for Whidbey. Jim Webber (his blog is coming soon and hopefully he’ll help in improving my “pblog” engine… I hope he gets the hint!!!) and I started a project which we called the “DatabaseTier” long time ago. I still have the C# source code…
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High-order functions in C#
I think my boss, Prof. Paul Watson, is going to enjoy this article which describes how one could program with high-level functions (as in functional programming) using some of the new features in C# 2.0.
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WS-FX
Just found out that apache.org is working on WSFX (Web Services Functionality Extensions), which is an implementation of the WS-Addressing, WS-ReliableMessaging, and WS-Security specifications. Great!
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In India
Arrived in India. Fascinating place. Managed to get lost and get attacked by two dogs, in the first 2 hours of my first morning in Delhi 🙂