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Social lending
Social networking is truly becoming part of our day-to-day lives. The Web is enabling some amazing scenarios. BBC is running a story on “social lending”, which I found interesting, especially the relation of the approach to microfinancing.
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DigiDesk workstation
I want one of these. Imagine how useful for scientific computing this would be. I don’t expect to get one but I am going to ask anyway
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Fast RDF search engine
Cooool. “Researchers at the National University of Ireland, Galway’s (NUIG) Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) have developed a search engine that can answer search queries with more than seven billion RDF statements in mere fractions of a second, which is the highest number recorded to date.” (Super-fast RDF search engine developed) A paper describing the…
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SecondLife here I come
Both my previous laptop’s and my current one’s graphic cards were from ATI’s FireGL Mobility range (i.e. tuned for CAD and digital media content management applications). This meant that the drivers were not really targeting games. I was never able to start SecondLife. Until today! I got an update from Windows Update and voila! SecondLife…
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Mix 07 – A great experience so far
I took the opportunity to watch two shows in Las Vegas, while waiting for Mix 07 to start. “ Love “, a Cirque du Soleil production. I really enjoyed it. The colors, the music by Beattles, the acrobatics! However, I think I preferred Varekai. The Blue Man Group . Interesting but not extremely exciting. Enjoyable…
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Dataflow and Manycore architectures
I have been gaining a lot of program management experience managing my team’s activities in the Many/Multicore area. I am even organizing a workshop in this area in June (more in a week or so). We have a very close interaction with Intel, which I enjoy tremendously (I will talk about the outcome of this activity sometime around…
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Woo hoo! I exist again.
For almost a week now I felt as if I didn’t exist. Not having a Web presence and not having personal email has been a weird experience. After for some many years counting on my personal domain name (savas.parastatidis.name), it was strange not having it around. Here’s the full story… I wanted to move my…
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Tony Hey to keynote at OGF 20
I won’t be at OGF20 (attending W3C’s WWW 2007 instead) but my manager, Tony Hey, will be there. He will be delivering one of the two keynotes. His working title is “The Social Grid” and this is the abstract: The community has been making rapid progress in defining interoperable protocols for Grid computing. We now have…
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Glastonbury, here I come!
Woo hoo! After 45 mins of continuously dialing (using my cell phone and Skype), I was able to get through and buy Glastonbury tickets for myself, Carole, David, and Meropi. I am soooo excited. Glastonbury 2007, here we come again!
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China trip over, next stop MIX 07
My trip in China just finished. I am safely back home and looking forward to my next trip, next week. It was a fantastic visit. I was fascinated by the work that MSR Asia is doing and the great number of clever people here. The working environment is great and very stimulating. I will seriously…