• On Graph Data Model Design – Relationships

    On Graph Data Model Design – Relationships

    Context: Jim mentioned in his QCon talk that I am advocating for hypergraphs as the model of choice when designing a graph store. That’s not true. The previous post has the details. Jim and I have been discussing graph store/database design for a long time now. As it is always the case, we argue 🙂…

    Read more →

  • QCon London 2013 – “A Platform for All That We Know”

    QCon London 2013 – “A Platform for All That We Know”

    A couple of weeks ago I attended QCon London 2013* where I had the pleasure of giving a version of my “A Platform for All That We Know” talk. I had to keep the talk on the abstract side since Qi Lu, our president, hadn’t yet talked about the “Bing Information Platform”. My very good…

    Read more →

  • Let’s teach kids how to code

    Let’s teach kids how to code

    What a great initiative from the leaders of our field: “code.org is a non-profit foundation dedicated to growing computer programming education.” Programming “is the closest thing we have to a superpower” 🙂 (Drew Houston, Founder and CEO of Dropbox) I love to code. It’s my hobby, my way of expressing myself, my art, my profession.…

    Read more →

  • Big data analytics determines the next big hit?

    Big data analytics determines the next big hit?

    There shouldn’t be any surprise in the “How Netflix is turning viewers into puppets” article but I still found it to be yet-another fascinating example of our new age of computing, one in which personalization and highly targeted experiences are the norm, one in which the big companies collect, combine, and analyze all sorts of…

    Read more →

  • The world’s knowledge as a collection of information streams

    The world’s knowledge as a collection of information streams

    Representing all knowledge as a set of continuous streams has been in my mind for few years now. In some of my public talks, I illustrated how information graphs and information streams might merge, how each single entity and each relationship could be represented as an individual stream, and how information should really be addressable…

    Read more →

  • Facebook’s Search Graph

    Facebook’s Search Graph

    I’ve been working on Graph Store-related technologies for 5-6years now. I got fascinated by the idea of representing the world’s information as an interconnected network (check out my semantics-related posts and some of my publications). Back when I was in Microsoft Research I built Zentity, a graph store + programming platform, with Lee Dirk’s and…

    Read more →

  • cvoya – the company

    cvoya – the company

    History If you follow my tweets, you might have noticed that I make a reference from time-to-time to an illusive “side project” 🙂 About 4 years ago, I started working on an idea for a web-based platform to connect the physical and digital worlds as an application of semantic computing (and no, it’s not augmented…

    Read more →

  • wocket is now available

    My side toy project was accepted by the Windows Store team and is now available for download for Windows 8. If you don’t have a Pocket account, go ahead and create one. You will be able to maintain a collection of articles, download them for offline reading, select your favorite ones, use the “share” charm…

    Read more →

  • wocket is ready for beta testing

    wocket is ready for beta testing

    As I mentioned few weeks ago, I’ve been working on a side project in my free time. After transitioning from the iPad to Surface, I was missing a Pocket client for Windows 8, so I decided to write one. The application is almost ready for beta testing. If you are interested in helping with ironing…

    Read more →

  • wocket – a side project

    wocket – a side project

    As I mentioned in the past, I am an information junkie. I go through the week collecting articles that I read when I get some free time, in between social commitments, exciting work at Microsoft, startup, concerts, etc. One of the services that I use a lot is Pocket (previously known as “Read It Later”).…

    Read more →