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Pending announcement…
Finally, one of the big things I’ve been working on is coming into light… This is going to be a big announcement 🙂 More coverage and info next week.
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Minority Report-style interfaces seem to be gaining momentum
This is very impressive. From Engadget (update: as Dan pointed out, the video has been removed).
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The Age of Semantics
In a recent presentation by Tony Hey on “eScience and Semantic Computing” (large PDF), which is heavily influenced by Evelyne Viega’s and my ideas, the “ages of semantic computing” were presented (Evelyne’s idea) as a way to capture how our thinking has evolved over the years… Enlightenment age: “It is not all about philosophy, it…
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Mac vs PC vs Linux
Jim just pointed me to this funny video. Very funny 🙂 (seen in Michael Calore’s blog)
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Great presentation of a research project
That’s what research is all about… having fun and being innovative 🙂 I love the way the “MySong” work is presented through this blog entry… examples, people having fun on camera, the paper, the science behind the project. Great stuff.
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Supercomputer Center
I am in San Diego with Lee Dirks. I’ve had very interesting meeting with Lynn Fink and co, Mark Ellisman and team, and Fran Berman and the technical/scientific leadership of the San Diego Supercomputer Center. It’s been a fantastic day. At the end, we were treated to a private tour of the machine room, which…
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World Wide Telescope
My team, and Dan Fay in particular, has been involved in the funding of the World Wide Telescope effort. I’ve seen demonstrations of it and it’s absolutely gorgeous. I was even lucky to see it running on a 4 x 3 large display wall with modifications to take advantage of the HUGE pixel surface. It…
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Radiohead’s "In Rainbows"
When Radiohead released “In Rainbows” I downloaded it without paying. I had told myself then that if I liked it I would buy the CD, as I did today. Kudos to Radiohead for trying something different. Now, if they had only included Seattle as part of their tour (I saw them live once but I’d…
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A great interview with the developers of SharpOS
Great information and insight into what the SharpOS folks are doing. Singularity, Spec#, Sing#, House (which I didn’t know about), and other cool technologies are also mentioned. It’s unfortunate for me that they opted to use GPL v3.0 as their license since I can’t look/play with the code (since I will be “tainted” :-(.