February 2008 - Savas Weblog - Microsoft Research Community

Mac vs PC vs Linux

Jim just pointed me to this funny video. Very funny :-) ( seen in Michael Calore's blog ) Read More...

Published 02-29-2008 8:55 PM by <savas:blog />

Great presentation of a research project

That's what research is all about... having fun and being innovative :-) I love the way the "MySong" work is presented through this blog entry ... examples, people having fun on camera, the paper, the science behind the project. Great stuff...

Published 02-29-2008 5:26 PM by <savas:blog />

Supercomputer Center

I am in San Diego with Lee Dirks. I've had very interesting meeting with Lynn Fink and co, Mark Ellisman and team, and Fran Berman and the technical/scientific leadership of the San Diego Supercomputer Center . It's been a fantastic day. At the...

Published 02-28-2008 3:56 AM by <savas:blog />

World Wide Telescope

My team, and Dan Fay in particular, has been involved in the funding of the World Wide Telescope effort. I've seen demonstrations of it and it's absolutely gorgeous. I was even lucky to see it running on a 4 x 3 large display wall with modifications...

Published 02-27-2008 2:53 PM by <savas:blog />

For those of you, like me, who like to work in coffee places...

:-) Nice prank. Read More...

Published 02-25-2008 5:33 PM by <savas:blog />

Radiohead's "In Rainbows"

When Radiohead released "In Rainbows" I downloaded it without paying. I had told myself then that if I liked it I would buy the CD, as I did today. Kudos to Radiohead for trying something different. Now, if they had only included Seattle as...

Published 02-24-2008 9:04 PM by <savas:blog />

A great interview with the developers of SharpOS

Great information and insight into what the SharpOS folks are doing. Singularity , Spec# , Sing#, House (which I didn't know about), and other cool technologies are also mentioned. It's unfortunate for me that they opted to use GPL v3.0 as their...

Published 02-23-2008 11:39 PM by <savas:blog />

Another in-browser OS...

Cloudo According to their technology page , they don’t use Flash or Silverlight which is hard to believe given what they show in their guided tour . Also, they suggest an “automatic sync” of files between a desktop and the cloud. This cannot be achieved...

Published 02-23-2008 11:33 PM by <savas:blog />

Great photo from my balcony

Chris was visiting with his partner last weekend. We had a great time (loooots of food)... well, I had a great time... I hope they did too :-) Chris took this great photo from my balcony while trying his new camera. That's the Magnolia hill and the...

Published 02-22-2008 9:48 PM by <savas:blog />

HTC Touch Cruise

Back in June 2007 I switched from T-Mobile to ATT in order to get the Blackjack I because the salesman told me that WM6 was “just a couple of weeks away”. Early December I went to complain because the update was still not available. Unfortunately, they...

Published 02-12-2008 4:34 PM by <savas:blog />

SneakerNet in action

We are experimenting with the processing of large amounts of scientific data so we asked for a copy of the SDSS SkyServer data. Alex Szalay was very kind to send us a copy... Tony Hey opening the box with the hard disks of the SkyServer data. This is...

Published 02-12-2008 2:23 PM by <savas:blog />

I am certain this is going to be an interesting blog to watch

I've started interacting with Bora Beran , a post-doc researcher working for Catharine van Ingen , over the last few months and I love it. He's very energetic, creative, and with great ideas. Have a look at his ontology-driven Hydroseek work Read...

Published 02-09-2008 12:47 AM by <savas:blog />

Phew... Can't wait for the weekend

Just spent the entire night at the office. It's the ThinkWeek paper deadline today and I've been working on three of them!!! But it seems that we'll submit all of them on time, if nothing goes wrong. I am very excited about the ideas we are...

Published 02-08-2008 11:27 AM by <savas:blog />

Microsoft and Yahoo

Of course it's all over the technology news. It's huge. I do hope it happens. Not everyone agrees. While exchanging emails about this with a friend, I did the calculation... Microsoft has around 80,000 employees... The $44B offer in cash represents...

Published 02-02-2008 11:45 PM by <savas:blog />

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