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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.…
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Two funny photos
I saw this outside someone’s office here in Microsoft and I thought it was funny: Doug Purdy posted a photo of an Indigo poster with the following commentary 🙂 “A few months ago I was at an unnamed conference. I took the below photo at the Microsoft booth. Apparently Indigo is some chip on…
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Am I working on SSDL in Microsoft?
I love speculation 🙂 The interest in SSDL has been picking up again. I got lots of requests for the article. I am now expecting lots of feedback from you folks! Negative or positive. Keep it coming! Robert wonders whether I am working on SSDL for Microsoft. The answer is no. However, I am doing equally…
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TechReady2
Last week Seattle hosted a Microsoft internal event called TechReady. Microsoft folks from all around the world, who interact with customers as part of their day job, joined us to discuss the company’s latest offerings. Simon Guest was responsible for the architecture track of the event. He did a fantastic job and the event feedback…
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This looks soooo slick
My current notebook (HP nw8240) is ugly, albeit thin and with a great screen resolution. My two previous ones (both IBM thinkpads, erm… Lenovo) looked too serious, their performance was great though. The new Thinkpad with the wide-aspect screen is too big and heavy for my liking. I haven’t explored the new T60 yet. Now,…
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Call for Paper for a special issue on ‘Middleware for Web Services’
Oops… My apologies for not posting this earlier but it escaped my attention. There is a very interesting call for papers for a special issue of the International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management on ‘Middleware for Web Services’. Consider reporting your work to this; you still have time!
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SSDL in IEEE Internet Computing
As Jim already mentioned, our IEEE Internet Computing article about SSDL is now published (also available online). I am really interested in the reaction and comments (if any) from the Web Services community. Who knows? Perhaps we could make a difference (I can always dream:-) The article has been heavily edited to match the magazine’s…
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Happy 2006 everyone
Happy New Year Everyone! It was a dream celebration for us. 2006 found us on a catamaran in the Sydney harbor watching the fantastic fireworks display in a clear Sydney sky. The stars, the atmosphere, the fireworks, the city, the people… everything was perfect. Here’s a shot of Sydney as the sun was setting. Unfortunately…