31st December 2007, 20 min read

Index for Year 2007

2007-01-02: Half an Hour: Things You Really Need to Learn 🗪
2007-01-03: Outsourcing Email: Universities Switching to Google Apps for Education 🗪
2007-01-05: Peter Turney launches his blog 🗪
2007-01-07: Human Brain Evolution Slows To A Crawl 🗪
2007-01-08: Priority R-Tree 🗪
2007-01-14: Too Much Semantics is Harmful in Information Technology 🗪
2007-01-15: No Great Researcher is Special 🗪
2007-01-15: Turing award recipient tears apart artificial intelligence 🗪
2007-01-18: Color terminal under Mac OS X 🗪
2007-01-18: Innovative Collaborative Filtering Venture going down: Findory 🗪
2007-01-19: Best telemarketing joke ever 🗪
2007-01-20: Harold Jarche Â» Where would we be without school drop outs? 🗪
2007-01-23: Help: Looking for High Quality Webcam for Video Blogging 🗪
2007-01-25: IBM´s Many Eyes 🗪
2007-01-25: inDiscover – a better music recommender system 🗪
2007-01-26: Debug CSS with the Firefox DOM Inspector 🗪
2007-01-27: Duck Typing, Artificial Intelligence and Philosophy 🗪
2007-01-30: Jim Gray missing at sea 🗪
2007-01-30: The Power of Web 2.0 Strikes Again 🗪
2007-01-31: Lawrence Lessig – On Free, and the Differences between Culture and Code 🗪
2007-02-01: Podcasting using ccPublisher 🗪
2007-02-02: The Big Bang is Intelligent 🗪
2007-02-02: The death of computing 🗪
2007-02-04: The paperless office finally coming? 🗪
2007-02-04: Why building software is hard 🗪
2007-02-05: Advice for a student going into Computer Science 🗪
2007-02-05: Tagging as a new information retrieval paradigm 🗪
2007-02-06: Got XFig to work under MacOS with fink 🗪
2007-02-06: VirtueDesktops 🗪
2007-02-07: Duck Typing, MustIgnore and the Web 🗪
2007-02-07: Saner rules for udev 🗪
2007-02-08: Academic Career Advice from Curt Bonk 🗪
2007-02-09: Taporware: have fun with words 🗪
2007-02-10: Flying kills the planet 🗪
2007-02-11: HTML/CSS Trick of the day 🗪
2007-02-12: Gutenberg-era Tech Support 🗪
2007-02-12: Web Semantics is Localized 🗪
2007-02-13: The Web is not virtual 🗪
2007-02-14: Would you pass my XML course? 🗪
2007-02-16: Crash course in sane Web programming 🗪
2007-02-16: How artificial intelligences are already at war with us 🗪
2007-02-19: JavaScript is interesting 🗪
2007-02-20: Taking charge of your IT 🗪
2007-02-21: TexMaker: a cross-platform LaTeX editor 🗪
2007-02-23: Why is Computer Science Education Obselete? 🗪
2007-02-24: Computer Science Departments will not survive 🗪
2007-02-24: Writing and Maintaining Software are not Engineering Activities 🗪
2007-03-02: Oracle buys Hyperion 🗪
2007-03-06: One More Step Toward Infinite Storage 🗪
2007-03-13: Streaming Maximum-Minimum Filter Using No More than Three Comparisons per Element 🗪
2007-03-19: The big scientific questions in computing have been answered 🗪
2007-03-20: Google Summer of Code and Collaborative Filtering 🗪
2007-03-22: Making Firefox Prettier under Linux 🗪
2007-03-26: Tag-Cloud Drawing: Algorithms for Cloud Visualization 🗪
2007-04-05: Tag clouds are here to stay 🗪
2007-04-06: My favorite MacOS applications 🗪
2007-04-09: ACM Transactions on Database Systems going double blind 🗪
2007-04-09: Montreal Tech Bloggers Network 🗪
2007-04-11: WWW 2007 Tagging and Metadata for Social Information Organization Workshop 🗪
2007-04-12: Google Summer of Code – Collaborative Filtering 🗪
2007-04-16: Are we destroying research by evaluating it? 🗪
2007-04-26: SIAM Data Mining 2007 🗪
2007-04-27: Final Word on SIAM Data Mining 2007 🗪
2007-05-04: Odeo: Turning to Web into a Giant Radio 🗪
2007-05-09: Visualizing changes in LaTeX 🗪
2007-05-11: My favorite MacOS software so far 🗪
2007-05-16: Amazon.com to Launch DRM-Free MP3 Music 🗪
2007-05-16: Journal of Interesting Negative Results in Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning 🗪
2007-05-16: Tag-Cloud Drawing: Software Available for Download 🗪
2007-05-17: My favorite Web 2.0 applications 🗪
2007-05-21: Bureaucracy is the ennemy of Science, or is it? 🗪
2007-05-22: Multivitamins are bad for you 🗪
2007-05-22: Really Good Web 2.0 Time Tracking Application 🗪
2007-05-23: Is P vs. NP a practical problem? 🗪
2007-05-24: Technorati: Only 45 People 🗪
2007-05-28: Blogosphere and Time Series 🗪
2007-05-28: Thermal Noise makes Quantum Cryptography obselete? 🗪
2007-05-28: University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM) going out of business? 🗪
2007-05-29: Yield returns are not esoteric anymore 🗪
2007-05-30: My favorite SciFi authors 🗪
2007-05-31: The Google Similarity Distance 🗪
2007-05-31: The Next Web 🗪
2007-06-01: WWWrong 🗪
2007-06-04: Everything is Miscellaneous 🗪
2007-06-05: Angry Lemur 🗪
2007-06-07: Value Investing News is using the Slope One collaborative filtering algorithm 🗪
2007-06-08: My philosophical interests 🗪
2007-06-08: Unacomputer 🗪
2007-06-19: XXL library: an open source Java database library 🗪
2007-06-21: $450 for 1 terabyte 🗪
2007-06-21: One-million-dollars grant for the ERASME Data Warehouse 🗪
2007-06-21: Slope One in Erlang 🗪
2007-06-21: Stephen Downes in Asia 🗪
2007-06-22: More Funding for Universities Hurts the Economy 🗪
2007-06-26: What? Only 25 MB of storage per core? 🗪
2007-06-27: I have had it with Firefox under MacOS 🗪
2007-06-28: Self-Publishing made easy: Lulu.com 🗪
2007-07-06: My Fight Againt Comment SPAM: Spambots pass the Turing test! 🗪
2007-07-06: The Cafes Â» North and South 🗪
2007-07-06: What is wrong with the software product economics 🗪
2007-07-08: My wife and my sons (pictures) 🗪
2007-07-09: OLAP experts sought in Montreal 🗪
2007-07-13: On Overabundance and Innovation 🗪
2007-07-16: UML and Web 2.0: a missing link 🗪
2007-07-16: YouTube scalability 🗪
2007-07-21: Why won´t to-do applications use mind maps? 🗪
2007-07-22: Looking into buy a new PDA 🗪
2007-07-23: Trying out a new to-do list software 🗪
2007-07-25: Digitalizing my old VHS tapes 🗪
2007-07-25: Heh. Indeed. 🗪
2007-07-27: Scalable Web Development 🗪
2007-07-27: Web Development Bookmarklets 🗪
2007-07-30: 2007 International Symposium on Wikis (October 21-23, 2007) 🗪
2007-07-30: Eclipse Search Dialog box is killing me 🗪
2007-07-31: Kasparov explains Russia 🗪
2007-08-02: Anyone has a Nokia Tablet PC? 🗪
2007-08-02: Paper publications and climate change 🗪
2007-08-06: Babylon 5: The Lost Tales – Voices In The Dark 🗪
2007-08-06: On the upcoming collapse of peer review 🗪
2007-08-13: The Web is a distinct society 🗪
2007-08-15: Slope One in Scala 🗪
2007-08-16: Computing the Hamming distance between two strings in Java? 🗪
2007-08-17: PDFView is dead, vive Skim! 🗪
2007-08-19: Finally giving up on PDAs 🗪
2007-08-20: How to manage email (Inbox Zero) 🗪
2007-08-20: Is the cosine similarity transitive? 🗪
2007-08-22: Maybe you don´t 🗪
2007-08-24: Best Possible Way to GET/PUT an XML File? 🗪
2007-08-24: Order pocket notebooks in Canada 🗪
2007-08-27: Free ads on my blog 🗪
2007-08-27: The world´s major polluter: USA 🗪
2007-08-28: 0xFFFFUL 🗪
2007-08-28: Weighted Slope One in Haskell 🗪
2007-08-29: Super Flash Mario Bros 🗪
2007-08-29: Teaching radical novelties 🗪
2007-08-30: Where the progress is happening in hardware 🗪
2007-08-31: Get into pay sites for free as a Googlebot 🗪
2007-08-31: Map shortage in the USA? 🗪
2007-09-03: The Web warps space and time 🗪
2007-09-05: It may not matter all that much where you go to college 🗪
2007-09-06: Science and Technology Advice is Not Free 🗪
2007-09-10: Food for thought: Searching attachments in Gmail 🗪
2007-09-10: Machine Smarter Than Naked Human Being? 🗪
2007-09-12: How to make Smultron even better 🗪
2007-09-12: Promo video for Windows 386 (very funny) 🗪
2007-09-17: My Experience as a proud Wii user 🗪
2007-09-17: No, you do not have to settle on a poor language because you have bad programmers 🗪
2007-09-19: Google Presentations: What did I tell you? 🗪
2007-09-20: Canadian dollar reach parity with American dollar 🗪
2007-09-24: My wife before and after 🗪
2007-09-26: Why don´t people use university libraries? 🗪
2007-10-01: The medium is the message, in Computer Science? 🗪
2007-10-03: Tape as the future of storage: are Sun and Dell insulting our intelligence? 🗪
2007-10-04: Great video on online education 🗪
2007-10-04: Search, Google, and Life: Sergey Brin 🗪
2007-10-04: Software Is Hard: you bet! 🗪
2007-10-05: Assessing a researcher… in 2007 🗪
2007-10-09: Odd Networking Problem with MacOS 🗪
2007-10-10: Disambiguate words using wikipedia 🗪
2007-10-11: What happens when everyone owns a telescope 🗪
2007-10-12: Productivity measures are counterproductive? 🗪
2007-10-16: What happens after a technological singularity? 🗪
2007-10-17: Early impressions on Facebook 🗪
2007-10-19: Optical disks, soon to be obsolete? 🗪
2007-10-22: Famous tech drop-outs 🗪
2007-10-24: Play the strongest checkers program in the world 🗪
2007-10-27: Publish or perish? Let them perish! 🗪
2007-10-29: Cool new native HTML widgets 🗪
2007-10-31: Hidden Gems : seeking diamonds in your data (November 7th 2007) 🗪
2007-10-31: Your platform is your software 🗪
2007-11-01: Why forbid derivative work? 🗪
2007-11-05: Non-industrial workplaces 🗪
2007-11-06: Non-commercial licenses and university courseware 🗪
2007-11-07: Skype 2.0 beta for Linux: video at last 🗪
2007-11-12: How to make sure your paper will be rejected 🗪
2007-11-12: IBM is buying Cognos 🗪
2007-11-13: How to recognize important problems 🗪
2007-11-14: Why science will triumph only when we teach it properly 🗪
2007-11-15: Netflix $50,000 prize awarded to AT&T 🗪
2007-11-15: The important problems: first update 🗪
2007-11-16: UC Berkeley holding tribute for Jim Gray 🗪
2007-11-19: Directed research is useless 🗪
2007-11-19: Matlab code and efficient algorithms for BIG tensors 🗪
2007-11-19: My research process 🗪
2007-11-21: Having scientific meetings with brilliant people… in your kitchen? 🗪
2007-11-22: How to become smarter 🗪
2007-11-23: Do not write like we taught you to! 🗪
2007-11-25: Physical factors making you smarter: white noise, carbohydrates, music, alcohol, and coffee? 🗪
2007-11-27: When has a problem been solved? 🗪
2007-11-27: Why bother with Google? Go straight to wikipedia! 🗪
2007-11-28: Is PageRank just good marketing? 🗪
2007-11-29: Research productivity: what matters? 🗪
2007-11-29: Storytelling and research papers 🗪
2007-12-02: More CS Ph.D.s than ever, what about research jobs? 🗪
2007-12-03: Find a Readership or Perish 🗪
2007-12-03: Quintura: a cloud-based search engine 🗪
2007-12-03: Thinking intelligence is innate makes you stupid 🗪
2007-12-05: Formal definitions are less useful than you think 🗪
2007-12-07: For the Web hacker in you: Google Chart API 🗪
2007-12-10: Computers can do analogies 🗪
2007-12-10: Google Recommends Blogs: Another PageRank? 🗪
2007-12-11: Improving your intellectual productivity by accepting chaos 🗪
2007-12-12: A better way to browse DBLP: Faceted DBLP 🗪
2007-12-13: Netflix: an interesting Machine Learning game, but is it good science? 🗪
2007-12-14: Why having a readership matters 🗪
2007-12-17: Why tenure matters? 🗪
2007-12-18: How much are the ideas of your competition worth to you? 🗪
2007-12-19: 21 open problems in Artificial Intelligence 🗪
2007-12-19: How many Computer Science researchers are there? 🗪
2007-12-21: How to win the Netflix $1,000,000 prize? 🗪
2007-12-21: How University professors ought to be teaching… 🗪
2007-12-22: Collaborative Filtering: Why working on static data sets is not enough 🗪
2007-12-24: I will be a better writer in 2008… I promise! 🗪
2007-12-24: What to get with your Nintendo Wii? 🗪
2007-12-27: Coping with overabundance as a scientist 🗪
2007-12-28: Keeping track of your time… lazily 🗪
2007-12-31: Get smart with email 🗪