Research

New York Times article about the “Fourth Paradigm” book

The New York Times has a nice article ("A Deluge of Data Shapes a New Era in Computing") about the…

15 years ago

The “Tony Hey” award

This is fantastic!!! Fully deserved and I am sure many more recognitions will be added to his great record. The…

15 years ago

Forthcoming book by MIT Press: World Wide Research

Tony Hey, Roger Barga, and I were asked to contribute an essay for an MIT Press book entitled "World Wide…

15 years ago

WorldCat Mashathon wrap up notes

Alice posted her wrap up notes on the WorldCat Mashathon event about which I blogged a couple of weeks ago.…

15 years ago

A “smart” cyberinfrastructure for research

Many months ago, Tony Hey, Evely Viegas, and I were invited to write a "viewpoint" article for the Communications of…

15 years ago

“Scholarly Communications” Group on Facebook and at the OCLC Mashathon event

Lee Dirks just created a "Scholarly Communications" group on Facebook. Most of my work while I was in Microsoft Research…

15 years ago

Microsoft Biology Foundation (MBF)

I am really happy to see the MBF project being announced to the public. When Simon Mercer of External Research…

15 years ago

“The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery”

I am extremely honored and humbled to be amongst so many scientists who have contributed to the book entitled "The…

15 years ago

Beautiful video about Microsoft External Research

I just noticed a beautiful video about Microsoft's External Research (my previous group). A great view at very high-level of…

15 years ago

“What’s faster – A supercomputer or EC2?” – Great insight by Ian Foster

I enjoyed reading Ian's analysis on how to interpret "faster" when it comes to comparing infrastructure-as-a-service and a supercomputer. Snippet:…

15 years ago