December 2007 - Posts

• Open Access to all NIH-funded research

  This is great news for the Open Access movement! Read More... Posted Dec 27 2007, 01:01 AM by <savas:blog />

• Off to Whistler!

  After a couple of days of intense coding (lost almost an entire day fighting with inheritance and table mapping in Entity Framework Beta 3 , which I really like btw), I am now ready to go for some much deserved skiing. Off to Whistler tomorrow for two... Posted Dec 23 2007, 08:49 PM by <savas:blog />

• eResearch and Cloud Computing

  The previous post reminded me of the talk I gave at SC07 about "The Web as the Platform for Research" . Bill St.Arnaud recently blogged about it ("Cloud computing is the way forward rather than the Grid") with a quote from yours truly... Posted Dec 21 2007, 08:26 PM by <savas:blog />

• More job openings

  In addition to the Program Manager for Scholarly Communications position (thanks to all of those who have already contacted me) and the internship opportunities , here are two more openings in my extended team. These two job openings are not for the Technical... Posted Dec 21 2007, 08:02 PM by <savas:blog />

• Intern opportunities in my team

  Are you a PhD student in the US? Are you interested in working with a passionate team in Microsoft Research for few months? Do you want to experience life in Microsoft ? Are you a professor and have students who might be interested working in any of the... Posted Dec 21 2007, 12:51 AM by <savas:blog />

• We really work hard in Microsoft

  As Dan said , Microsoft Research moved to a new building at the beginning of November. It's really nice. Today, I was walking by a section of the 4th floor with 'open' offices (no-wall offices... yes, they even have numbers). They are supposed... Posted Dec 17 2007, 09:51 PM by <savas:blog />

• Another "Cloud" Service from Amazon: SimpleDB

  Here's another simple, still very interesting, service from Amazon , with an interesting payment model. It's called SimpleDB and it allows queries over structured data. It's great to see Amazon delivering such services. I do hope that others... Posted Dec 15 2007, 02:43 AM by <savas:blog />

• Job opportunity in my team

  Are you excited about scholarly communications, libraries, open access, repositories for research output, semantics, ontologies, academic tools for research? Do you want to interact with clever people around the world and inside Microsoft ? Would you... Posted Dec 13 2007, 08:23 AM by <savas:blog />

• I love trains

  Trains are my preferred way of traveling, while buses are my worst because I get motion sickness when I try to read. I am on a National Express (ex-GNER... I didn't know about this) train from London to Newcastle. I knew that these trains offered... Posted Dec 13 2007, 05:20 AM by <savas:blog />

• In Qatar

  I am in Qatar for work-related meetings. This is my second day and still no luggage. I had to go cloth shopping. Traveled half way around the world to go to a mall :-( Tony Hey and I went swimming to the sea today, just outside the Sheraton Doha hotel... Posted Dec 10 2007, 09:59 AM by <savas:blog />

• Woo hoo... the ski season is here!

  I heard on the radio that the local ski resorts were going to be open from today. Unfortunately, I can't go this weekend. If I am not in Qatar next weekend for a work-related meeting, I am definitely going. Today, it started snowing in Seattle! I... Posted Dec 01 2007, 04:42 PM by <savas:blog />