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“Web” or “Grid” – Isn’t it ironic?
For a long time I’ve been saying that the Grid is nothing but an application domain of distributed computing and that it needs no new infrastructure. Our latest paper supports this statement and proposes the use of stable infrastructure technologies (in the WS-* space) for realizing high-level, Grid application domain-specific services. Mark Baker suggested we…
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Geometry Wars on Xbox 360
Wow, I am amazed! I can’t even score beyond 100,000 points in Geometry Wars when the game score leader has done 16,000,000!!! There is a video of his record setting game. Chris Anderson is already beyond 2,000,000! I have long way to go 🙂
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Funny CS quotes
Simon sent around this link to computing-related quotes. Funny!
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An evolutionary approach to realizing the Grid computing vision
Over the last few weeks I worked together with Marvin Theimer, Marty Humphrey, Tony Hey, and Geoffrey Fox on a Grid related paper which has now been distributed to the community*. The paper describes an evolutionary approach to designing and standardizing services specific to the Grid application domain. It promotes the use of stable and widely-accepted specifications…
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Xbox 360!
Oh yes! On Friday, my manager and I went to our local BestBuy after we were informed by Xbox 360 tracker that there were consoles available there (I must remember to make a donation to the guy who wrote it). We got there by 12.15pm (that store has a policy of releasing any available consoles…
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So close to getting an Xbox 360 today
I woke up this morning and run the xbox360 tracker just in case. It told me that there some Xbox 360s available at BestBuy in Lynnwood (north of Seattle). It was around 7.30 in the morning (well, very early for me) so once I got ready I headed that way before coming to work. I didn’t…
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Greek .NET community
Chris Georgakopoulos pointed me to a very cool .NET community site in Greece: dotnetzone.gr (in Greek). Cool job guys!
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Book: “Knowledge representation and reasoning”
Lately I have been reading “Knowledge representation and reasoning: Logical, Philosophical, and Computational Foundations” by John Sowa and I am seriously enjoying it. Chris mentioned a very simple analogy used in the book to explain the difference between the directionality inherit in a computation and declarative notations (btw… my apologies to Chris for mixing velocity…
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Jim on SSDL
A great post by Jim summarizing SSDL.
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Go MESTeferians, go!
A group of us are thinking of joining the IEEE International Services Computing Contest (SCContest 2006) contest. This looks like it could be lots of fun. Jim and I can act as the industry advisors (poor customers! :-). Aad is the team’s academic lead and he’s putting a team of post-graduate students together in Newcastle.…