May 2008 - Savas Weblog - Microsoft Research Community

Greece gets Bird's Eye view in Virtual Earth

Dan Fay told me about the availability of Bird's Eye view photos of major cities in Greece . I was able to find the place I spent 4 years of my life while an undergraduate in Greece, in Thessaloniki :-) The new feature that I really love, though, is the...

Published 05-06-2008 1:00 PM by <savas:blog />

Data formats - The adventures of reading a Flow Cytometry data file

I try to spend few hours a week at the Armbrust Lab , trying to understand what the scientists there are trying to do and how their work could be helped by technology-based automation solutions, especially around the area of data management. The week...

Published 05-11-2008 2:44 PM by <savas:blog />

"Vatican Says Alien Life Plausible"

Now, I wouldn't usually blog about a ./ article like this but the highlighted sentence made me laugh, something that I seriously needed after a tiring day full of meetings... "According to BBC, the director of the Vatican Observatory stated in...

Published 05-14-2008 6:32 PM by <savas:blog />

Cloud computing in action

Using the Web as a platform? Not having to build an entire ecosystem of infrastructure protocols in order to utilize another organization's/company's resources (by paying for it of course)? Living the distributed, large-scale computing dream without...

Published 05-15-2008 1:04 PM by <savas:blog />

BBC Facebook spoof video

Very funny :-) (sent to me via email from Santosh ) Read More...

Published 05-16-2008 7:28 PM by <savas:blog />

New toy: an eReader

In my ever futile attempt to persuade everyone in my team to stop printing, I purchased an eReader. I went for iRex's Iliad ... It has a larger screen than other popular readers; Note taking capability (even though the design and the form factor of...

Published 05-16-2008 7:03 PM by <savas:blog />

No more Live Search Academic :-(

The Live Search team made a decision to pull the plug on Live Search Academic and Live Search Books (including the book scanning project). This is sad news for those of us who had high hopes for those services and the value they were adding to the academic...

Published 05-23-2008 2:13 PM by <savas:blog />

Sasquatch Festival!

Ok... Sasquatch was nothing like Glastonbury . Wayyyy too small. I arrived there on Friday late afternoon. I thought I would just set up my tent and then start doing things, jumping from party to party with live music. Nope... it was a quiet Friday evening...

Published 05-28-2008 3:09 PM by <savas:blog />

Workshop on Empirical Studies of Web Services Architecture (The REST-SOAP Debate in Numbers)

This sounds like a very fun workshop. Now, all we need are fun papers as well. So, start those word processors and discuss your views, observations, thinking. The Program Committee is looking forward to reading what you have to say. Call for papers ....

Published 05-28-2008 6:54 PM by <savas:blog />

Great posts from Steve

I've been doing some catching up with few of the blogs I follow. I just read few of Steve Vinoski 's latest entries. Worth checking out. Just What We Need: Another RPC Package Defending Something Other Than RPC Read More...

Published 05-28-2008 6:48 PM by <savas:blog />

Sasquatch photos...

As promised in my previous post about Sasquatch , here are some photos... Read More...

Published 05-29-2008 4:08 PM by <savas:blog />

Coldplay ad

I was playing with the Windows Media Center on my server at home (sorry... can't say why given I don't watch TV :-) and I saw an ad of Coldplay 's new album. I thought... wow... this is such a cool advert, great visuals, great atmosphere....

Published 05-29-2008 11:57 PM by <savas:blog />

Jim Gray Systems Lab

While catching up with my blog reading, I found through James Hamilton 's blog (an excellent one to monitor btw and I am lucky to read his Microsoft -internal version as well :-) that David DeWitt is joining Microsoft as a Technical Fellow to lead the...

Published 05-01-2008 4:18 PM by <savas:blog />

Bora's blog is active again

I think I have already linked to Bora's blog but one more time doesn't hurt. I've been privileged to see some of the stuff he's working on and, I can tell you, it's very exciting! Stay tuned. Read More...

Published 05-02-2008 11:50 PM by <savas:blog />

Which Mac?

If you were to recommend a Mac laptop, which one would it be? MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2.5GHz, is there an SSD option?) MacBook Air Please note that I am not after a power/dev machine like my Thinkpad T61p but it does have to be fast enough for some modest...

Published 05-05-2008 8:51 AM by <savas:blog />

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