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Restfulie gets a home and a logo
It looks cool too 🙂 Thanks again for the credit to our book (tentative title “REST in Practice”).
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“Bar Stool Economics”
I was forwarded a translated to Greek version of the “Bar Stool Economics” anecdote. It effectively tries to exemplify how the American tax system works. It uses clever language and math to hide the fact that the system is indeed biased towards larger savings for the richer. It also makes the assumption that the richer…
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New York Times article about the “Fourth Paradigm” book
The New York Times has a nice article (“A Deluge of Data Shapes a New Era in Computing”) about the “Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery” book, which also happens to include my “A platform for all that we know: creating a knowledge-driven research infrastructure” essay 🙂 Check out my October blog entry about the book. It’s…
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Interview with Guilherme Silveira, creator of Restfulie
Just read Guilherme‘s interview over at InfoQ about Restfulie. Nice read. It’s great to see that our (upcoming) book is already helping people create Web applications and frameworks out there. “Jim Webber, Savas Parastatidis and Ian Robinson will release a book on using the web as one’s infrastructure in early 2010 and after reading it…
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Long weekend in London
I realized today that I didn’t write* about my long weekend in London over Thanksgiving (Nov. 26 – Dec 1), which was absolutely amazing! It was a very last minute thing but it turned out to be great, as it is usually the case. I had such a beautiful time. I spent some time with…
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A quote from an Australian movie
I just watched “The Rage in Placid Lake” (an Australian indie film), which was cute. I liked these lines delivered by the main character towards the end of the movie. “There are moments when you know what you need to do. If you stopped and analyzed it, it’d be crazy. You’d lose pros and cons…
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Statistics, art, and the environment
I spent my afternoon at the Pacific Science Center today. I went there for the “Animation” exhibit, which I enjoyed very much. However, I was mostly taken and pleasantly surprised by Chris Jordan‘s photography exhibition. Chris is a Seattle artist (photography) who, after a long career as a lawyer, gave up his job and became…
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The “Tony Hey” award
This is fantastic!!! Fully deserved and I am sure many more recognitions will be added to his great record. The “Tony Hey” student award was established to honor Tony‘s contributions to e-Science. I am thrilled!!! I am also honored and humbled to have worked with Tony!!! 🙂 Congratulations!
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Forthcoming book by MIT Press: World Wide Research
Tony Hey, Roger Barga, and I were asked to contribute an essay for an MIT Press book entitled “World Wide Research – Reshaping the Sciences and Humanities“, edited by William H. Dutton and Paul W. Jeffreys. We decided to write about “Research Platforms and the Cloud”. That was a couple of years ago but I…
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WorldCat Mashathon wrap up notes
Alice posted her wrap up notes on the WorldCat Mashathon event about which I blogged a couple of weeks ago. There is a nice video of Alex talking about the prototype we did on the spot. Adding WorldCat to Windows 7 Alex and Savas used the WorldCat Search API to add WorldCat-formatted citations and links…