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Farewell Kyril
I met Kyril back in 2006. I was already in Microsoft for a year when Jim Gray and Tony Hey asked me to join Tony’s Technical Computing team as an Architect. Kyril was in my interview loop for the job. We spent a lot of time talking about eScience, research, and Technical Computing; much longer…
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Rest in Peace Jim Gray
Jim Gray (1944-2012). Here’s to a wonderful human being, an amazing scientist, and a great role model. I am so honored to have known, have worked with, and have had him as a mentor in Microsoft. Jim was the one who advised me to move to the US and join Don Box’s group. He mentored…
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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…
