• "Web 2.0… The Machine is Us/ing US"

    (I am back in Seattle, some notes about my trip to the UK will follow) The “Web 2.0… The Machine is Us/ing US” video is a nice high-level illustration of the evolution of the Web (some call it ‘Web 2.0’).

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  • Jim’s search is suspended but our hope continous

    Please review the “Search status” blog entry over at the “Tenacious Search” blog. I am still full of hope and anxiously awaiting for Jim to reply to my last message upon his return, in which I requested to hear about his adventure over beers!

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  • Great paper on parallel computing

    While on my way to London, I’ve been doing some reading. I found “The Landscape of Parallel Computing Research: A View from Berkley” a great read.

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  • Commercial Quantum Computing?

    DWave claims they have built the first quantum computer for commercial use. They are going after NP-complete problems, of course! I couldn’t find technical details on their web site but if this thing is fast and evaluates functional/dataflow graphs in parallel, I want one as my laptop 🙂

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  • Another good word for SSDL 🙂

    In an interview to Stefan Tilkov, Arjen Poutsma, of Spring Web Services fame, had something nice to say about SSDL 🙂 Wouldn’t it be great if there were frameworks out there providing support for SSDL-like contract languages? I have been hard at evangelising SSDL within my company. Let’s see if anything comes out of it (btw… I have…

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  • Cream of Science

    Interesting service: 46.713 publications by the top 229 Dutch academics. (via Tony Hey)

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  • On the road again

    I am going to be traveling again from tomorrow. First, it’s Greece for few days to see my family and participate in my city’s carnival celebrations. Then I’ll be visiting the UK. I am going to be in Southampton and Microsoft Reading on the 21st, Manchester on the 22nd, and Newcastle on the 23rd (soooo…

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  • User-Defined Functions in Excel 2007 and Web Services

    While preparing for an integration project with some of David Heckerman‘s biology-related work, I thought of educating myself on how Excel 2007, .NET, and Web Services could be combined to play together. A lot of scientists use Excel in their day-to-day activities. So it makes sense to make functionality exposed through Web Services available as custom…

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  • PBlog comments update

    There has been no spam comments since I added the simple antispam functionality on pblog. However, since there was some confusion as to how to filter the numbers from the antispam string, I simplified it. Now, the antispam string has to be written as is. If spams start appearing again, I may introduce a math-based…

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  • Amazing demonstration of what is possible with WPF/E

    Wow! This AJAX+WPF/E application simulates the Vista Aero interface inside the Web browser. The windows in the screenshot are actually hosted within the browser, even the video. Amazing.

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