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Congratulations to Paul, Pete, and Debbie
I recently found out that Prof. Pete Lee, Jim‘s PhD supervisor and our HiPPO post-doc boss, has become the head of the School of Computing Science; Prof. Paul Watson, my PhD supervisor and boss while at the NorthEast Regional e-Science Center, has become the School’s Research Director; and Debbie Corbet, the Data-Intensive Systems Research group’s administrator, has taken over the (impossible) task…
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"Web Science"
“Group of University Researchers to Make Web Science a Field of Study“ “Tim Berners-Lee Announces Web Science Initiative – Studying the Social Web“ This is an area very close to my heart. I am really keen to try and make a difference and have an impact in this space through the work I will be…
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Microsoft boosting Linux?
Reading through Slashdot today and coming up against some interesting news: “Microsoft Is Set to Give Linux a Boost Through Partnership With Novell”. If this is true, this is the second time in few minutes I have to ask: Is this Microsoft we are talking about? I wonder if such an agreement will let Mono…
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Zune
My 60G iPod is falling apart from the heavy usage. It’s time for a new portable player, which is definitely going to be a Zune. However, I will have to wait until they release ones with capacity larger than the 30 GBs of the first wave. My CDs already occupy around 37 GBs on my…
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Ian Foster is blogging!
I didn’t know Ian was blogging until he left a comment on my last post. How cool is that? Subscribed of course!
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Moving to a new role
It has been just over a year since I joined Microsoft; my first day was 12 September 2005. Since then, I changed 3 managers and I was part of 3 different incubation projects. Throughout, it’s been a blast! I have been working with so many clever people and doing extremely interesting things, always working on future…
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On my way to Greece
I am on my way to Greece for much needed holidays. It’s the longest I’ve ever been away from my family and friends (last time I saw them was back in August 2005). Soooo looking forward to some relaxing time. There has been soooo much going on lately. I should be in a position to…
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chmod 777 Web
As I was quickly browsing through the Oct 06 issue of IEEE Spectrum the other day, I came across a column at the very last page that talked about new words/terms being created and used on the Web. I had never come across the “chmod 777 web” one. From my many years of Unix-related work, it immediately made sense…
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Call for Papers for WWW2007 – Web Services
The Call for Papers (Web Services track) for WWW2007 is now available. Paul Watson and Jim Webber are the chairs for the program committee, which includes great people from the Web Services industry/research community. I am really honored to be part of this group of people and I am really confident we can put a…
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The Newcastle team WON the SCC 06 Contest!
Congratulations to the Newcastle team for their fantastic efforts. They had already done great to qualify to the final round but the news just came in that they have taken 1st place in the Service-Oriented Computing Contest (SCContest 2006), part of SCC 06. I am really pleased especially because SSDL played a key role in their…