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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…
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Glastonbury in November (@glastofest)
Wow. I can’t believe Glastonbury looks like this. It’s sooo beautiful 🙂 Different type of beauty from when it’s packed with ~200k people at the end of June 🙂 Compare the beautiful green landscape with the colorful sea of tends, stages, arts & crafts & food stands, and people. Source: “A little video of the…
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A “smart” cyberinfrastructure for research
Many months ago, Tony Hey, Evely Viegas, and I were invited to write a “viewpoint” article for the Communications of the ACM. It should be of no surprise that we chose to write about “Semantic Computing” as it relates to research. While the focus of my contribution to “The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery” book…
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A positive spin to globalization?
I am a true believer in finding something positive in all aspects of human activities. It’s no secret that I am not a huge fun of capitalism and its impact to the world’s less fortunate. I do not believe in Bill Gates‘ “Creative Capitalism“, even though it’s preferable to pure capitalism. I think that the…
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Slides from Jim and Ian’s QCon tutorial
Jim and Ian (my co-authors for the “REST In Practice”*) gave a tutorial at QCon in San Francisco few days ago, which was very well received. For most part, the slides follow a lot of our rhetoric in the book and I think they make a great resource. Jim and Ian have done a wonderful…