Rich Williams, leading the Computational Ecology group out of our team at Microsoft Research Cambridge gave an interview for Channel9. So go for it and watch the video. Rich is a bright person and he brings up tons of cool projects we develop new tools for.
Clemens Vasters just wrote about federated services in his blog. Sounds familiar? Of course. I spend a lot of time two years ago in investigating in Web Service Federations including soft- and hardware in my research at the IT-Management and Web Engineering Research Group (MWRG). At this time it was quite hard to explain to people what a Web Service federation actually is supposed to mean. We had a look deep into a couple of technologies. E.g., we allowed to connect uPnP devices with non-uPnP services across organizational boundaries, we used off-the-shelf Phidgets devices to control simulated Intel uPnP services. Unfortunately, WCF was not that stable at this time to use it as infrastructure for our approach even if we started to build upon it in the beginning.
Since my supervisor was recently appointed to a professorship, I changed universities this month. Due to this change I updated my research page, now including my current research.
Today, I found an online resource providing some tips and information how a research poster might look like. I have seen a lot of bad ones and do do not consider mine as perfect yet. So maybe this information does help in improving the research posters…
For those writing papers I still recommend Simon Peyton Jones’ How to write a good research paper”.
After some delay we have put the slides of the robotics talk on the Cambridge Spa Wiki.
Some other resources for context-oriented programing from a bachelor thesis. By accident, I found out that this person is now working at, a company building a tool for tracking Personal Software Process which was one of my topics during my studies at university.
Ambient-oriented programming web site. Just reading some of the papers there.
Niels Lohmann did a video of the closing session, given by Sir Tony Hoare at a Summer School in 2006. Even talking to him several times over here in Cambridge, it’s great to see this video.
“At the International Summer School Marktoberdorf 2006, Tony Hoare was asked to give the talk at the closing session. He gave a lot of advices for Ph.D. students, and I am glad I made a video of it to share these advices”
Invisible computing: Not brand new but quite interesting to read:
“This site has the source code and documentation for Microsoft Invisible Computing. It is a research prototype for making small devices part of the seamless computing world. This site contains the source code and is available free of charge for research and educational use under the Microsoft Shared Source License.”
And even better, the code is Shared Source.
Not much time for doing a lot of other stuff, since I am just working on a paper for Pervasive 2007.