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The Hermes Series – Issue 2
Welcome to the second edition of The Hermes Series, a non-regular and often random collection of notes & thoughts about knowledge representation and reasoning, graphs, technology, and all things from around the Web. In this second blog post in the series … The Internet of Things and Glanceable Data The Economies of Digital Assistants and…
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My files in the cloud using SkyDrive
I have been using the beta version of SkyDrive for a while now and I love it. I was a huge user of Live Mesh for its peer-to-peer synchronization capabilities. I am certain I will miss that feature but I understand the need to remove complexity and streamline features as the service scales to support…
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The Hermes Series – Issue 1
I am an information junkie I enjoy keeping up with the world of technology. I take notes, keep links, and write about the things that interest me. I try to identify the connections with what I do at work, with what excites me. I like to share. I learn a lot from discussions and alternate…
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Welcome to the new http://savas.me look
As I suggested a week ago, my weblog was going to change. The majority of the work has now been done. There are still few things that I need to fix or transfer from my old site but most of the content is now in its new place and the redirects should just work. If…
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Blog changes coming up
In the coming days, this blog and my entire corner on the web at http://savas.me are going to change. After 8 years of faithful service, I am retiring “pblog“, the blogging engine I wrote back in 2003 and further evolved few years later. I have already transferred all the blog entries to WordPress and I…
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Come work for our team!!!
In my previous post I shared my excitement about my new role in Microsoft. I work together with some amazing people on hard problems, in a domain that really excites me: data, information, knowledge at scale. We now want to grow the team and so we want YOU! 🙂 We are looking for good Developers…
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My new challenge in Microsoft
Over the last three months I’ve been having an incredible time at work. I opted not to talk about it because I wanted to make sure that it sticks this time 🙂 Before my current role, I participated in great startup efforts within Microsoft, projects with great vision and immense possibilities. We’ve learnt a lot…
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Knowledge Representation and Reasoning in 2012
Happy New Year everyone! 2011 was a slow year for this blog. Early last year I joined Erik Meijers team in order to work on an incubation project that involved actors, distributed graph-based processing, a highly-scalable and reliable document store, and more. Given the non-public nature of the project, I couldn’t really talk about it.…
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A crazy Savas trip 🙂
When Lee Dirks asked me to represent the Microsoft Research Connections team at a Digital Public Library of America meeting at Harvard Law School in Boston, I immediately checked my calendar. The DPLA folks are starting a wonderful new journey of defining a platform for digital libraries so they needed input from industry Software Architects.…
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XLDB 2011 conference – Observations
Granted, Netflix had to build their own pipeline based on open source technologies. They used the right tool for the job. They used a NoSQL solution for reliably gathering/recording their data at scale. They used an RDBMS where it made sense. Netflix is a big company. They can build their own data processing infrastructure from…