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Creative Commons Addin for Office 2007
When I joined Technical Computing, now part of External Research, we wanted to create an ecosystem of tools and services to support researchers worldwide. Today we announced the results of some of our efforts; there is still more going on. A tool that was discussed was the Creative Commons addin for Microsoft Office XP/2003. We…
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Supporting the Scholarly Communication Lifecycle
Lee Dirks has been leading our efforts in the Scholarly Communication lifecycle. It’s been an absolutely pleasure working with Lee since he joined Technical Computing, which has now been integrated with External Research in Microsoft Research. He’s been a great leader and I am so happy to see his vision on how to better support…
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.NetMap available on CodePlex
.NetMap start a series of announcements by our group today. Marc Smith and his team have done a great job at delivering a network visualization plugin for Excel; and it’s open source. NetMap is a pair of applications for viewing network graphs, along with a set of .NET Framework 2.0 class libraries that can be…
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Open Web Foundation
Google, BBC, Facebook, and other big names sponsor the “Open Web Foundation”. They are ignoring W3C and OASIS! Ok… you have to pay to participate in those organizations. But IETF???? Dare Obasanjo has some more detailed commentary on the announcement. Nevertheless, this is going to be a great organization to monitor. With such Web heavyweights…
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Amazon’s recent S3 problems
A great read for those, like me, who are into large-scale systems. See what happened in S3’s recent 9-hour downtime from the people at the center of it. (via Werner Vogel’s blog)
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“Ahead in the Cloud” – Werner Vogel’s
Werner Vogel just finished his “Ahead in the Cloud” talk here at the DISC 08 workshop. As always, very entertaining. Amazon is light years ahead of the rest of the industry in thinking about and delivering utility computing to the world. The talk was not technical given the audience here but here are some highlights/notes…
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The 2008 Microsoft eScience Workshop
My friend and colleague Kris Tolle is responsible this year for all things related to the 2008 Microsoft eScience Workshop. This meeting has been getting better and better with each year. The community amazes me every time with the wonderful things that they have to show. This year the workshop is co-located with the 4th…
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Three day of Mapping and Reducing…
I am spending today, tomorrow, and Friday at the University of Washington at an NSF-funded workshop on how to use Hadoop to write map-reduce computations. I already know map-reduce of course but it’s interesting to get some hands-on experience on Hadoop. Fun!
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Amusing analogy of Google’s daily processing power
20 Petabytes/day! Now, how much is that in rice units? :-)… “I never knew Google was THIS massive!“
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Yup… Resources and WS are making the news again
I remember the conversation going something like this a couple of years ago(paraphrasing for dramatization purposes :-)… – (My manager at the time:) Savas, we’d like to ask you to drive the latest technical efforts on WS-Transfer. – Eh? You do know that from all the specifications in the WS-* ecosystem WS-Transfer is perhaps the…