• Word add-in for Ontology Recognition

    I have written about the Word add-in for Ontology Recognition (the focus of the BioLit project) in the past. The project was also mentioned in my contribution to the Fourth Paradigm book and our “A  smart’ cyberinfrastructure for Research” article. It was one of the projects in which I was actively involved while in Microsoft…

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  • “Think Biker”

    Next time you get that steering wheel in your hands, think of us bikers… Great British commercial. Check out the “making of” as well for some of the thinking…

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  • The winner of the “Zentity Dojo challenge” at Dev8D

    The Zentity folks at MSR’s External Research group (Lee Dirks, Alex Wade, and Oscar Naim) and the wonderful guys at the University of Southampton, School of Engineer Sciences (Steven Johnston, Mark Scott, Kenji Takeda, Simon Cox, and Less Carr) organized a Dojo event at Dev8D around Zentity. It was great seeing the reports and the…

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  • Choo Choo train in downtown Seattle

    Remember the “No pants light rail ride“? This time we did a “Choo Choo train” in downtown Seattle 🙂 Like before, it was organized by the “Emerald City Improv“. That was last Sunday and it was soooo much fun. There were so many surprised and/or laughing faces of people as the train was going around.…

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  • My “Olympic” Vancouver weekend

    It’s been some time since my last “travel” blog entry. I still plan to write about the fun/skiing week in Italy but I am not finding the free time to finish the video I am editing 🙁 Last weekend, I rode my motorbike to Vancouver to experience some of the Olympic Games vide, hang out…

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  • The Zentity team is soliciting feedback

    The Zentity team is soliciting your feedback. They just broadcasted a message that I thought might be good to redistribute through this blog as well. Please note that the deadline for paper submission is FAST approaching. I’m looking forward to seeing all the things that the Zentity community is doing with the platform. Furthermore, if…

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  • “To Risk” by William Arthur Ward

    Today at yoga (yes, I woke up at 5.15am again for a 6.30 class ), our lovely instructor Jen shared a poem with us that I really liked: “To laugh is to risk appearing a fool, To weep is to risk appearing sentimental. To reach out to another is to risk involvement, To expose feelings…

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  • My Twitter and Facebook streams will soon get a divorce

    I use my social streams and digital recordings of what I do in real life as part of a personal mutli-year investigation into semantics and digital memory. For some time now, my Twitter steam was mirrored to my Facebook one and archived on my blog, as part of “life as it happens“. I am seriously…

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  • Science Commons Symposium – Pacific Northwest

    I just remembered that the Science Commons Symposium is taking place this coming Saturday. It’s promising to be a very cool event, organized by my friends over at External Research in Microsoft Research. I am really looking forward to it. The list of speakers is impressive! If you are around and haven’t joined, I encourage…

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  • Blaise amazes again

    When Blaise first presented Photosynth at TED few years ago, everyone was amazed. Well, the work that he’s been doing over at Bing Maps is starting to show off and it’s absolutely wonderful. I just watched his recent presentation on “augmented-realy maps”. Blaise and his team continue to innovate big time! (Note by Savas: Embeded…

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