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Microsoft and "Research-Output" Repositories
What is Microsoft going to show at the Open Repositories 2008 conference in few days? Why is the entire “scholarly communications” section of the Technical Computing team going there? 🙂 Lee Dirks, Alex Wade, Santosh Balasubramanian (an honorary member!), and I are going to be there to interact with the community and to showcase for the…
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Loving last.fm
After my latest soccer (erm… football) league game today, which we lost again :-(, I came to the office to catch up with some work. I installed last.fm for the first time and I am loving it. I felt like “Pink Floyd”-similar music while coding and voila… Ah… the beauty of collective intelligence. BTW… after…
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Experimenting with the myExperiment Web API
I have been closely following the excellent work by myExperiment team. They recently presented at my team’s All-Hands Meeting here in Redmond. It was nice to see David De Roure (co-principal investigator) and Jiten Bhagat (main developer) again. Microsoft is, of course, proudly co-funding the effort. A Web API exposing all the data was one…
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Google Visualization API
I just love it and I am jealous. We should be doing things like this as well. After the Gapminder folks moved to Google, we were all expecting something like this to be released. The execution is just beautiful… components that can be used in iGoogle or just be embedded in applications like Spreadsheets. Excellent…
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A wonderful weekend at Whistler
As I said in a previous post, I went to Whistler for few days. It was absolutely wonderful. I had a much needed downtime and enjoyed skiing. The first couple of days were fantastic. Sunday morning was really beautiful but in the afternoon it got cloudy and icy so I stopped the day short. (photos…
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"Universal Parallel Computing Research Center" x 2
Today Microsoft and Intel announced a joint endeavor with UC Berkeley and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign around parallel computing. I’ve been heavily involved in this, coordinating Microsoft‘s engagement on the technical side of things. Remember that photo with all the senior Microsoft and Intel technical folks back in the summer? After a year of…
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Natural language processing-based search in Vista
Here’s a feature I didn’t know about. Alex Wade, who was the technical Program Manager responsible for this functionality in Windows Vista, showed me how to enable it. It’s a pity that such a great feature is disabled by default. So… go to Folder Options (you’ll find it in the control panel), select the “search”…
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Our world needs more teachers like Antanas Mockus
This article is 4 years old but it’s the first time I read it. Antanas Mockus is not the mayor of Bogota anymore (according to Wikipedia). Definitely inspirational… I wonder how the world would look like if policy-making followed Mockus‘ example! (Thanks to my friend Onoufrios for forwarding)
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WSJ – "Racing to Gain Edge on Multicore Chips"
As I mentioned last week, my group is about to make a big announcement. The WSJ article tells only half of the story. Stay tuned until tomorrow!
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Whistler
I was at Whistler last weekend and I am going there again in a couple of hours. Yes, I finally took some time off (today and tomorrow). Last weekend it was fantastic but didn’t really enjoy skiing. This week I will also spend some time with my friend Colette and will introduce Einar to Whistler.…