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I just found out about the Heraclitus Project: Heraclitus is an open source suite of Java tools for Semantic Web adaptation. The Heraclitus framework proposes the adaptation of the Semantic Web, based on web usage data. Starting from raw access logs, the users’ online behaviour is modelled and…
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Generalized Multi-dimensional Data Mapping and Query Processing
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Rui Zhang, a student at the University of Singapore, made available his Generalized Multi-dimensional Data Mapping and Query Processing software package as a tar ball. I started browsing the related paper (Generalized Multi-dimensional Data Mapping and Query Processing. TODS, September 2005) and it…
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Cringely predicts certified security experts will see a rapid appreciation of their value. I agree. It is quite an obvious prediction, but well worth stating in an era where IT experts are often struggling. Can a job in IT security be interesting, be fun? I don’t know. All and in all, there is…
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A future in IT? Think about IT security!
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Information Retrieval as Quantum Mechanics
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UQAM to launch an ePrint server
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Through an an interview in seomoz where they happened to mention the Slope One collaborative algorithm algorithm, I found out about this new book which shows that Information Retrieval can be seen as a form of quantum mechanics. Crazy! Using this framework, van Rijsbergen presents a new theory for…
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It seems like UQAM is about to launch a university-wide ePrint server. They use the EPrints2 software system.
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Next Textbook “Introduction to Data Mining”
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Paul Graham – What Business Can Learn from Open Source
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Tim Bray against Web 2.0 “slogan”
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Here’s a cool new text book on Data Mining. The author makes his lecture slides available (for free it seems).
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Just read the latest article from Paul Graham. This guy is so brilliant, it is amazing. Here are some of his insights: On Business versus technology… It’s a lot harder to create something people love than to take something people love and figure out how to make money from it. About online…
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Tim Bray tells us why he doesn’t like the expression “Web 2.0”: It’s not only vacuous marketing hype, it can’t possibly be right. In terms of qualitative changes of veryone’s experience of the Web, the first happened when Google hit its stride and suddenly search was useful for, and…
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Met with Michael Stiber today!
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I spent a couple of hours with Michael Stiber this morning. I also got to meet his family. What a nice guy! He was in Montreal for a neural networks conference.
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A recent article in DW Review asks whether Open Source is ready for Business Intelligence. There are already some interesting Business Intelligence Open Source tools such as Octopus Enhydra, Eclipse Birt and Mondrian, All of them in Java by the way!!! Add to this MySQL 5.0 with features matching…
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Computer Science Eulogy
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Thanks to Suresh, I got to Ernie’s eulogy of Computer Science: This lack of stories is an endless source of frustration for those of us who say Oh Wow! every day. We see power and beauty in computer science, even while we rage against the limitations of the technology that grows out of it. We…