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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…
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Wow! Cool! Xbox Live original TV content.
The Xbox team continues to do great things. Now, if only they listen to our encouragements and enable networking on the XNA platform so that we can see some cool, distributed computing scientific applications 🙂
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Landed in Beijing
I am very excited. Although I am tired, I am off to start exploring. Tomorrow, I am spending a full day at the prestigious Tsinghua University talking to engineers about a project with which we are going to be involved on distributed, large-scale simulation of the power grid infrastructure and power consumption/disaster analysis. This is a new domain…
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China, Mix, and W3C’s WWW07
So, I am on my way to China today but there is more traveling ahead and opportunities to reconnect with the community. I am going to be at Mix 07 in Las Vegas from 29th April to 2nd May. Then it’s the Vancouver half-marathon (I am not really really prepare for it but I’ll give it…