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26 Nobel Prize Winners sign another letter to the US Congress
This is about open access to publicly funded research. Not that my opinion has the weight of these Nobel Prize winners but I am agreeing nevertheless 🙂
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I am back!
I had already mentioned I was in Glastonbury (panoramas) and then stayed in the UK for few days for work-related meetings (e.g. Nature visit). After the UK I went to Greece for few days of holidays. I saw my family and relaxed a lot; truly felt that my batteries were fully recharged. Here are a…
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Some panorama fun
I installed the beta of Windows Live Photo Gallery, which supports panoramic stitching, so I played around a bit. Manycore Computing Workshop 07 Glastonbury 07 This last one is really nice, from the Pyramid stage before the Keizer Chiefs if I remember well.
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Nature visit
I was at Nature Publishing Group‘s offices in London today to meet with Timo Hannay (Director of Web Publishing), Ian Mulvary (Product Development Manager), and Euan Adie (Product Development Manager). Wow! These folks are doing really cool stuff. More importantly, however, they are interested in doing even cooler stuff to help researchers around the world…
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Glastonbury mudness 🙂
I am in London for some work-related meetings and relaxing after what was an excellent Glastonbury. Yes, it rained. Yes, everything I was carrying with me got really really wet. Yes, I got wet to the bone while waiting under the rain for more than 3 hours to catch the first train of the day out…
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Manycore Computing Workshop 07
The Manycore Computing Workshop 07, sponsored by my team, was a great success. It was great to see such a large part of the Parallel/Manycore Computing community coming together to exchange ideas and participate in discussions on “manycores for general purpose computing”. The first day of the workshop, the one opened to the delegates of…
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The "Research" Ribbon Tab
I’ve been out of coding practice (too much program management) so I decided to spend few hours today learning something new and starting a project I always wanted to do since I joined Tony Hey‘s group. The “Research” Ribbon tab will allow people to consume various research-related services and also access research-related utilities. In the…
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Computational tools to help with research for AIDS vaccine
As Dan says, there are really no words to describe this. Well done to the entire team over at MSR for doing this. If I wasn’t so busy with other things, there would have been a service somewhere in there to expose the functionality via SOAP/XML over HTTP 🙁 It’s still in my “to do”…
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SecPAL v1.1 is out
My pals over at the SecPAL team have released a new version of their framework for declaratively capturing authorization policies in large-scale distributed systems (yeah… yeah… ok… “Grid” systems 🙂 This is fantastic work. They just released a minor update that you should definitely check out. I hadn’t realized that they had created a CodePlex…