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CCGrid 2007 reviews!
It’s 4.40am and I just finished my 10 (!!!) paper reviews for CCGrid 2007. Hmmm… I will think hard before I accept another invitation to join a Grid-related Program Committee. I read some really poor papers, with no attention to presentation, no clear focus/contribution, nothing exciting, etc. Since I always try to give lots of feedback, I…
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Social Networking and Open Access
The PLoS ONE service seems to be an interesting one. It’s a community-based approach to reviewing scientific reviews. Social networking is going to play a key role in the future of scientific research, study, exploration, search, collaboration, reporting of results, etc. I do hope that this attempt proves successful now that Nature’s social networking endeavor…
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Wikipedia 3D Explorer and Social Networking
I just read about the Wikipedia 3D Explorer over at Dan’s blog. It’s sweet and the type of visualization I want us to be able to do for social networks for science. It’s built on WPF and I think it’s another example of how content on the Web can break free from the Web browser abstraction. Like…
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Mark McKeown is blogging
I was exploring the blogosphere this morning and I discovered that Mark is (finally!) blogging 🙂 Subscribed of course. If you want to hear about how HTTP and the REST principles are used in building Grid applications, this is a blog to monitor.
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"Architecture Astronauts"
This was pointed out to me few months ago and it has been sitting in my mailbox since then. It was written in 2001 but I think it will always apply.
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66,795 pushups and situps? Hmmm…
This is a fun challenge by Dan but I already have my own for the new year… get ready for a full marathon. I need to get ready for the Vancouver half-marathon; I’ve set myself the challenge of doing it in 1.35-1.40. Then run another half marathon before trying a full marathon. So I am…
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Decoupling the data from its presentation
If you have been following the development of the Windows Presendation Foundation, you’ve probably already heard about the New York Times reader, which has been around for a while. I am using it to read the New York Times and the experience is great. I would love to see somethng similar for BBC News online,…
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Tony Hey is interviewed by Richard Poynder
Tony Hey, Microsoft Corporate Vice President of Technical Computing and also my manager :-), was recently interviewed by Richard Poynder. You can read about Tony‘s start as a physicist, his move to Computing Science, the UK e-Science program, about science and data, the Grid, supercomputers and clsuters, the Open Access movement, licenses, OpenXML, etc. Isn’t…
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Hans Rosling and gapminder
I was pointed to Hans Rosling‘s talk over at TED talks (RSS feed available). An excellent presentation by Prof. Rosling, which I highly recommend. It seems that Google has picked up on his work already. Here are the links: Gapminder (mentioned in the talk) and Google‘s gapminder. It’s interesting to see how the world through numbers.
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State machines for the MEP SSDL Protocol Framework
Patric has been doing some awesome work on introducing support for SSDL contracts, the MEP SSDL Protocol Framework in particular, to Windows Communication Foundation. Now Patric has a blog; go subscribe! In a recent message to the SSDL mailing list, Patric pointed to the protocol state machines for the message exchange patterns supported by both…