January 2008 - Savas Weblog - Microsoft Research Community

Excellent blog entry by Ian Foster

Happy New Year everyone. The first entry of 2008 relates to an excellent blog post by Ian Foster . The main differences I see between "Grids" and the "Cloud" are the concepts of "virtual organizations" and "sharing of...

Published 01-09-2008 12:41 PM by <savas:blog />

Wired: "Two AI Pioneers. Two Bizarre Suicides. What Really Happened?"

I was looking around the Web for some Semantics, Knowledge Representation, and AI articles/info/etc. when I came across this interesting Wired article: "Two AI Pioneers. Two Bizarre Suicides. What Really Happened?" . Sad and fascinating at the...

Published 01-21-2008 12:21 AM by <savas:blog />

Journey through Microsoft Research

I was not aware of this Flash-based UI . I am sitting at a review meeting of the team that did this. Very very nice. Read More...

Published 01-21-2008 5:14 PM by <savas:blog />

The question is...

Is s/he on Facebook ? "Mystery image of 'life on Mars'" Read More...

Published 01-23-2008 9:31 PM by <savas:blog />

myExperiment announces announcements feature :-)

I'm actively monitoring the work that is taking place by the myExperiment folks and I love it. They keep adding features and they have lots of innovative stuff coming down the pipeline. Can't wait! Jits just posted the first announcement. There...

Published 01-25-2008 11:10 AM by <savas:blog />

Silverlight-based cycle stealing

Some time ago I had suggested to Dan Fay that it might be interesting to use Silverlight as an easily distributable and maintainable platform for cycle-stealing at large scale. We thought it’d be great to investigate, perhaps as an intern project, but...

Published 01-26-2008 2:01 PM by <savas:blog />

MSR Community

My blog is now syndicated and available through the MSR Community site . Cool resource, go check it out. Read More...

Published 01-27-2008 3:32 PM by <savas:blog />

"Mest up people"

Every now and then I check my blog's referral logs. Today I came across a Google query that directed the interested party to one of my pages... they were looking for "mest up people"... I guess they were really looking for "messed up...

Published 01-29-2008 3:31 PM by <savas:blog />

Open access chemistry

I was heavily involved at the initial technical discussions and the interactions with the group of people involved in this excellent activity. However, this is entirely the result of Lee Dirk's excellent effort! The OAI-ORE format is going to be used...

Published 01-29-2008 5:02 PM by <savas:blog />

Reading Pre-Columbian Artifacts in Silverlight

Microsoft recently announced a partnership with the Library of Congress . Lee Dirks of Technical Computing @ Microsoft , jointly with other groups within Microsoft , supported the effort to bring information about pre-Columbian Artifacts on the Web ,...

Published 01-12-2008 7:58 PM by <savas:blog />

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