• 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…

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  • Working hard… playing hard… Upcoming live concerts 🙂

    I am keeping myself quite busy these days and I love it. I started Yoga classes twice a week at 6.30am and a fitness class at 7.30am, again twice a week. I really need to get ready for the ski season, which may be starting early if the snow on our mountains is any indication…

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  • My energy consumption in numbers

    I really try my best to be good with the environment, as much as I can. Over the last couple of years I’ve been taking more active steps. It’s starting to pay off but there is much more to be done. Some simple and obvious solutions at home have HALVED my energy consumption from year…

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  • “Scholarly Communications” Group on Facebook and at the OCLC Mashathon event

    Lee Dirks just created a “Scholarly Communications” group on Facebook. Most of my work while I was in Microsoft Research was associated/supported by Lee’s group. Lee and Alex Wade are doing an amazing job. They have so many ideas on how technologies could support the work of scholars and they are delivering tools/services on so…

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  • Microsoft Biology Foundation (MBF)

    I am really happy to see the MBF project being announced to the public. When Simon Mercer of External Research first told me about what he wanted to do (that was last year, when I was still working for External Research), I got very excited. I got to review his plans and became a big…

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  • Restfulie

    Guilherme Silveria and Cau  Guerra are at it again. Great stuff guys! I can’t wait for our book to finish so that everyone can check out our discussion of hypermedia and the stuff we’ve built. It’s really great to see Restfulie taking a very similar approach to ours. Here’s Jim‘s post on Restfulie. Guilherme Silveria…

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  • A weekend in New York

    I spent last weekend in New York. I looooove this city. Every time I visit, I am falling more and more in love with it. I don’t know what’s ahead in my personal/professional life but after my current gig I would seriously consider a move there. We’ll see. The “excuse” for this quick trip was…

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  • Restbucks hypermedia client? 🙂

    Wow… our book is not complete yet and folks have already started writing code based on our examples? 🙂 I just read on Jim‘s blog that Guilherme Silveira, Adriano Almeida, and Lucas Cavalcanti have been doing some good work in this space. Very very cool. Excellent job! Now guys… we also have a DSL for…

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