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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…
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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…