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Open access chemistry
I was heavily involved at the initial technical discussions and the interactions with the group of people involved in this excellent activity. However, this is entirely the result of Lee Dirk’s excellent effort! The OAI-ORE format is going to be used in this project. I am going to talk about the OAI-ORE document format in…
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"Mest up people"
Every now and then I check my blog’s referral logs. Today I came across a Google query that directed the interested party to one of my pages… they were looking for “mest up people”… I guess they were really looking for “messed up people”… still, through the power of Google‘s engine, they got a good…
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MSR Community
My blog is now syndicated and available through the MSR Community site. Cool resource, go check it out.
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Silverlight-based cycle stealing
Some time ago I had suggested to Dan Fay that it might be interesting to use Silverlight as an easily distributable and maintainable platform for cycle-stealing at large scale. We thought it’d be great to investigate, perhaps as an intern project, but, as it is the case these days, we just haven’t had the time…
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myExperiment announces announcements feature 🙂
I’m actively monitoring the work that is taking place by the myExperiment folks and I love it. They keep adding features and they have lots of innovative stuff coming down the pipeline. Can’t wait! Jits just posted the first announcement. There is a feed you can subscribe to or you can just check out the…
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The question is…
Is s/he on Facebook? “Mystery image of ‘life on Mars’”
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Journey through Microsoft Research
I was not aware of this Flash-based UI. I am sitting at a review meeting of the team that did this. Very very nice.
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Wired: "Two AI Pioneers. Two Bizarre Suicides. What Really Happened?"
I was looking around the Web for some Semantics, Knowledge Representation, and AI articles/info/etc. when I came across this interesting Wired article: “Two AI Pioneers. Two Bizarre Suicides. What Really Happened?”. Sad and fascinating at the same time.
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Reading Pre-Columbian Artifacts in Silverlight
Microsoft recently announced a partnership with the Library of Congress. Lee Dirks of Technical Computing @ Microsoft, jointly with other groups within Microsoft, supported the effort to bring information about pre-Columbian Artifacts on the Web, using Silverlight. Very cool.
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Excellent blog entry by Ian Foster
Happy New Year everyone. The first entry of 2008 relates to an excellent blog post by Ian Foster. The main differences I see between “Grids” and the “Cloud” are the concepts of “virtual organizations” and “sharing of resources” that the Grid community has often used to drive its standardization efforts. While academic institutions seem to…