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February 2008 - Posts
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Jim just pointed me to this funny video. Very funny :-) ( seen in Michael Calore's blog ) Read More...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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:-) Nice prank. Read More...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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