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Chem4Word project
One of the projects on which I’ve been spending lots of my time is the Chem4Word one. Alex Wade is driving the project and just published a page for the world to see. The team over at the University of Cambridge is fantastic; a pleasure to work with. We are all very excited about the…
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Extending "Famulus" using arbitrary data models
“Famulus” has always been the codename for our “Research Output Repository Platform”, which I’ve discussed in previous posts. I am mentioning the codename in public for the first time only now because it makes the discussion of code samples so much easier. When we come up with the official name (I promise, we’re trying out…
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Tony Hey interviewed by Jon Udell
You can listen to the interview and/or read the transcript on “on10”.
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Having coding fun the Web 2.0 way
I’ve been working on a personal project for a month now. You’ll hear more about it in the coming months 🙂 As part of the coding part of the project, I’ve had to work against Google‘s authentication, YouTube, and GData APIs. Also, I’ve looked at creating a Facebook application and today I started working with…
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Our wonderful interns
Earlier this week I organized a BBQ gathering at my place for the great interns working with us this summer. I’ve been working with interns in two separate projects… Datacenter-related in collaboration with James Hamilton and Dan Reed‘s Data Center Futures team; “Semantics Summer of Fun” together with Evelyne Viegas. We’ve been very lucky with…
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Stunning visualization from the BBC
Paul Watson sent me a link to this short clip showing really stunning visualizations. I wonder whether we could reuse the technology for scientific data.
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F# for Scientists
I saw Tony Hey earlier this week holding the “F# for Scientists” book so I had to check it out. Very very cool! I love it that F# is being productized and will be soon in the hands of developers. I’ve been following its evolution and rise to a product for two years now.
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“3rd Annual Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science”
While at the Faculty Summit, I talked with Ian Foster again who pointed me to the 3rd Annual Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computing Science. It looks very interesting and relevant to some of the work we are doing in MSR‘s External Research.
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Lee on Channel 8
In the first of a series of videos related to our recent announcements in the Scholarly Communication lifecycle space, Lee Dirks talks on Channel 8. Fun!!! 🙂
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Research Output Repository Platform
Yes, I know the name is boring. We have a better name but we weren’t able to secure it internationally in time for Faculty Summit. Anyway… “Research Output Repository Platform” will have to be for now. I talked about our efforts around the platform few months ago. Age of Semantics post (general post… setting the…