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Steven is joining Microsoft
Woo hoo! I’ve been waiting to blog about this for some time. Steven Newhouse is joining Microsoft and the HPC team. The OMII has a blog post about it. I’ve known Steven since I returned to Newcastle in 2003 and engaged with the Grid community. He’s a great asset for Microsoft and I am really glad…
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New skis, bindings, and boots
This must be one of the smartest purchases I’ve made. My Salomon X-Frees have been getting really really old; I bought them 6 or 7 years ago. I have been demoing various skis throughout the season but last Saturday I tried a pair of K2s (the Apache Recon); they felt really good. After a quick…
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SecPAL Preview
A group of people I really like in Microsoft (they are a fun team) released their very interesting work as a preview. This type of work is very relevant to cross-organization collaboration, virtual organizations, Grids, etc. “The Security Policy Assertion Language (SecPAL) provides a flexible and robust declarative authorization language developed for large-scale Grid Computing…
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TechFest, Technical Computing, and Steve Balmer
I am having a blast these days even though it’s been pretty busy (especially with the condo buying process in motion). Yesterday we had a full day of presentations from my group’s various interantional collaborators. It was great to see all the fantastic things they are up to and chat to them in person. I’ve…
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Minority Report-like human-computer interaction
This prototype implementation looks very cool. If the idea takes off, we may finally find ourselves doing some exercise while working 🙂 For some time now, Microsoft’s visitor center has been showcasing a similar concept for the Windows Live Local data. However, nothing close to the sofistication of the prototype shown on the video.
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Technical Computing @ Microsoft site up
Our Technical Computing @ Microsoft (my team’s web site) is live. Woo hoo! No feed for changes yet or blog aggregation but all is coming! This is just v1.0. URLs that will direct you there: http://www.microsoft.com/science, http://www.microsoft.com/tc, http://www.microsoft.com/technicalcomputing.
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Soya: An SSDL Framework implementation
A tear almost went down my face. I am so happy to see Patric‘s work finally out there. Patric says: After almost 4 months of development I’ve uploaded the first release of Soya yesterday night =) Please feel free to browse through the web site , download the latest release , check out the source repository…
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Transitioning to Windows Live Domains
I am going to move the administration of my domain to Windows Live Domains. I hope the process is seamless but if this site disappears for a while, you’ll know something went wrong. What prompted this? Well, yesterday Google mail (all my personal email is routed via this service) had a problem affecting a number…
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Buying a condo
It’s been a while since I started considering the purchase of my own place here in Seattle. In February, I started the process and at the beginning of this week I made an offer for a great condo in West Queen Anne. It was only the second time I went out for viewings with my…
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i’m!
Well done to Microsoft. The “i’m” is a great initiative. Using Windows Live Messenger, every time I start a conversation with “i’m” a donation is made to my organization of choice (from a short list). I’ve chosen to support Unicef and will also support StopGlobalWarming.org every other day. So, expect lots of “I’m” conversations :-)* Happy “I’m”ing 🙂…