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Open Repositories 2007
I arrived at San Antonio today for the Open Repositories 2007 conference (I am surprised they don’t have a unique URI for the 2007 conference site, at least not yet). Tony Hey will be giving the closing keynote on Friday. We are keen to engage with this community since we believe in the value of digital…
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URIs considered harmful?
How about that? Remember the discussions from months ago (“WS-Web” and “Names and Addresses – a different view”) about the identity of resources and their relationship to HTTP URIs? I just read this story about Netscape taking down the resource representation of the RSS 0.91 DTD Schema at the end of the http://my.netscape.com/publish/formats/rss-0.9.dtd URI. They brought it back…
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I am the GridMaster 🙂
Well, it had to happen at some point… a Grid game 🙂 I saved humanity from a volcano erruption, an eartquake, the avian flu, and I’ve even found aliens; all with the power of Grid computing!!! Via Dan.
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Open Access and the "social web" for physics
Paul Watson pointed me to the January 2007 issue of the “Physics world”. You’ll notice a number of articles related to open access and the impact of Web to scholary publication and the peer review process. It’s funny how not all of those articles are available 🙂 I found that “talking physics in the social…
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Wow! Don Ferguson at Microsoft
I just read that Don Ferguson has joined Microsoft. Very cool!
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Nice iPhone "news items" 🙂
These are funny.
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Bill Gates and Steve Jobs keynotes
I just finished watching Bill Gates‘ keynote at CES from last Sunday (I know, I should have been reviewing papers instead). I watched Steve Jobs‘ keynote at Macworld from yesterday. Wow! The geek in me cannot wait for all the things that have been announced. I love the style and interface of the iPhone. I am always…
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Panos is here
Panos is visiting Microsoft and he’s staying in Seattle for few days. It’s great to see him. Need to think what we are going to be doing over the weekend. I went to pick him up from building 41 today to go out for dinner. It took me 2 1/2 hours to cover a distance…
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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…