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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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Another "Cloud" Service from Amazon: SimpleDB
Here’s another simple, still very interesting, service from Amazon, with an interesting payment model. It’s called SimpleDB and it allows queries over structured data. It’s great to see Amazon delivering such services. I do hope that others, including my company, will follow. “Amazon SimpleDB is a web service for running queries on structured data in…
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Job opportunity in my team
Are you excited about scholarly communications, libraries, open access, repositories for research output, semantics, ontologies, academic tools for research? Do you want to interact with clever people around the world and inside Microsoft? Would you like to work with Lee Dirks*? Do you want to be part of Tony Hey‘s vision for research? (Job description)…
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I love trains
Trains are my preferred way of traveling, while buses are my worst because I get motion sickness when I try to read. I am on a National Express (ex-GNER… I didn’t know about this) train from London to Newcastle. I knew that these trains offered WiFi access but just realized that it’s now free! This…
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In Qatar
I am in Qatar for work-related meetings. This is my second day and still no luggage. I had to go cloth shopping. Traveled half way around the world to go to a mall 🙁 Tony Hey and I went swimming to the sea today, just outside the Sheraton Doha hotel. It was fantastic. Swimming in…