March 2008 - Savas Weblog - Microsoft Research Community

At the Data Intensive Computing Symposium

Lots of clever people are gathered in Yahoo 's headquarters for the first Data-Intensive Computing Symposium . I see lots of familiar faces and the program looks VERY interesting. I really liked Randy Bryant 's change of his DISC term (PDF download...

Published 03-26-2008 1:36 PM by <savas:blog />

Relationships can have properties as well

I was asked a very good question by the people who are going to be using our "research-output" platform. They want to be able to capture information like this: "Paper P was authored by Author A while A was a Microsoft employee". The...

Published 03-26-2008 1:29 PM by <savas:blog />

"Article authoring" add-in for Office

If you write papers and you interact with publishers (especially in the bio field), I think you are going to like our thinking with this add-in for Office . It supports the XML format used by the National Library of Medicine , an easy way to collect metadata...

Published 03-25-2008 11:00 AM by <savas:blog />

Microsoft and "Research-Output" Repositories

What is Microsoft going to show at the Open Repositories 2008 conference in few days? Why is the entire "scholarly communications" section of the Microsoft Research Technical Computing team going there? :-) Lee Dirks, Alex Wade, Santosh Balasubramanian...

Published 03-24-2008 1:16 AM by <savas:blog />

Loving last.fm

After my latest soccer (erm... football) league game today, which we lost again :-(, I came to the office to catch up with some work. I installed last.fm for the first time and I am loving it. I felt like "Pink Floyd"-similar music while coding...

Published 03-22-2008 10:11 PM by <savas:blog />

Experimenting with the myExperiment Web API

I have been closely following the excellent work by myExperiment team. They recently presented at my team's All-Hands Meeting here in Redmond. It was nice to see David De Roure (co-principal investigator) and Jiten Bhagat (main developer) again. Microsoft...

Published 03-20-2008 4:09 PM by <savas:blog />

Google Visualization API

I just love it and I am jealous. We should be doing things like this as well. After the Gapminder folks moved to Google , we were all expecting something like this to be released. The execution is just beautiful... components that can be used in iGoogle...

Published 03-20-2008 12:02 AM by <savas:blog />

A wonderful weekend at Whistler

As I said in a previous post , I went to Whistler for few days. It was absolutely wonderful. I had a much needed downtime and enjoyed skiing. The first couple of days were fantastic. Sunday morning was really beautiful but in the afternoon it got cloudy...

Published 03-18-2008 11:42 PM by <savas:blog />

"Universal Parallel Computing Research Center" x 2

Today Microsoft and Intel announced a joint endeavor with UC Berkeley and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign around parallel computing. I've been heavily involved in this, coordinating Microsoft 's engagement on the technical side of things...

Published 03-18-2008 2:36 PM by <savas:blog />

Natural language processing-based search in Vista

Here's a feature I didn't know about. Alex Wade, who was the technical Program Manager responsible for this functionality in Windows Vista, showed me how to enable it. It's a pity that such a great feature is disabled by default. So... go...

Published 03-17-2008 5:24 PM by <savas:blog />

Our world needs more teachers like Antanas Mockus

This article is 4 years old but it's the first time I read it. Antanas Mockus is not the mayor of Bogota anymore (according to Wikipedia ). Definitely inspirational... I wonder how the world would look like if policy-making followed Mockus ' example...

Published 03-17-2008 4:44 PM by <savas:blog />

WSJ - "Racing to Gain Edge on Multicore Chips"

As I mentioned last week , my group is about to make a big announcement. The WSJ article tells only half of the story. Stay tuned until tomorrow! Read More...

Published 03-17-2008 12:49 PM by <savas:blog />

Whistler

I was at Whistler last weekend and I am going there again in a couple of hours. Yes, I finally took some time off (today and tomorrow). Last weekend it was fantastic but didn't really enjoy skiing. This week I will also spend some time with my friend...

Published 03-13-2008 3:53 PM by <savas:blog />

Pending announcement...

Finally, one of the big things I've been working on is coming into light... This is going to be a big announcement :-) More coverage and info next week. Read More...

Published 03-13-2008 3:33 PM by <savas:blog />

Minority Report-style interfaces seem to be gaining momentum

This is very impressive. From Engadget Read More...

Published 03-11-2008 1:49 PM by <savas:blog />

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