• 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…

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  • Open Access to all NIH-funded research

    This is great news for the Open Access movement!

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  • Off to Whistler!

    After a couple of days of intense coding (lost almost an entire day fighting with inheritance and table mapping in Entity Framework Beta 3, which I really like btw), I am now ready to go for some much deserved skiing. Off to Whistler tomorrow for two days. Waiting for Einar to come to the neighborhood…

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  • eResearch and Cloud Computing

    The previous post reminded me of the talk I gave at SC07 about “The Web as the Platform for Research”. Bill St.Arnaud recently blogged about it (“Cloud computing is the way forward rather than the Grid”) with a quote from yours truly. What you don’t see in the presentation (and that was a big omission…

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  • More job openings

    In addition to the Program Manager for Scholarly Communications position (thanks to all of those who have already contacted me) and the internship opportunities, here are two more openings in my extended team. These two job openings are not for the Technical Computing group but applicants will still have the chance to work closely with…

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  • Intern opportunities in my team

    Are you a PhD student in the US? Are you interested in working with a passionate team in Microsoft Research for few months? Do you want to experience life in Microsoft? Are you a professor and have students who might be interested working in any of the areas below? Please let them know. Roger Barga…

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  • We really work hard in Microsoft

    As Dan said, Microsoft Research moved to a new building at the beginning of November. It’s really nice. Today, I was walking by a section of the 4th floor with ‘open’ offices (no-wall offices… yes, they even have numbers). They are supposed to be hot-desks or they ‘house’ temporary staff. Someone who seemed to have…

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