Dorai's LearnLog

JISC MOSAIC - Developer Competition [del.icio.us]

dorait — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 10:34:41 PDT

OpenPublish | Phase2 Technology [del.icio.us]

dorait — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 10:03:08 PDT

Tor - The Onion Router [del.icio.us]

dorait — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 09:29:17 PDT

50 Tools and Tricks to Revolutionize Your Notetaking | Distance Learning Net [del.icio.us]

dorait — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 07:56:50 PDT

Bulk SMS | SMS Mobile Marketing | SMS Mobile Advertising | Customized Bulk Messaging [del.icio.us]

dorait — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 04:48:30 PDT

Dimdim integration | groups.drupal.org [del.icio.us]

dorait — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 09:58:07 PDT

NIC Tamil Nadu [del.icio.us]

dorait — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 05:21:17 PDT

RDBMS: Tired Software?

dorai — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:25:24 +0000

Michael Stonebraker calls RDBMs “Tired Software”. Stonebraker is a well known guru in the DBMS community. As the architect of Berkeley Ingres, Postgres, Illustra and Streambase, he has...

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Boyer–Moore string search algorithm - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [del.icio.us]

dorait — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:56:12 PDT

Welie.com - Patterns in Interaction Design [del.icio.us]

dorait — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 07:32:36 PDT

List of open source video games - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [del.icio.us]

dorait — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 07:34:26 PDT

Stephen Hawking: Self Designed Evolution

dorai — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:38:06 +0000

A Broader View from Stephen Hawking: “I think it is legitimate to take a broader view, and include externally transmitted information, as well as DNA, in the evolution of the human race,”...

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Python: Evolutionary Computing, API for Structured Data, Interface to R Language…

dorai — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 04:23:25 +0000

Python Alerts from InfoStreams: ecspy 0.1 A framework for creating evolutionary computations in Python. pyroutes 0.1.5.2 A small WSGI wrapper for creating small python web apps zopyx.convert2 2.0.3...

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Multicore: 800 TFlops, Bulk MultiCore, HMPP Workbench and More

dorai — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 01:53:25 +0000

800 TFLOPS chip for ray tracing 800 TFLOPS chip for ray tracing Courtesy of Multicoreinfo.com, Tops Systems Corp of Japan, a venture involved in multicore technology, together with Toyota Motor...

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Natural Image Statistics [del.icio.us]

dorait — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:13:27 PDT

INEX 2009 XML Mining Track [del.icio.us]

dorait — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 05:52:49 PDT

Study Skills - For English Language Beginners [del.icio.us]

dorait — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:03:05 PDT

svgweb - Google Code [del.icio.us]

dorait — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:43:13 PDT

Star this project Code license: Apache License 2.0 Labels: svg, shim, vectorgraphics, javascript, web, toolkit, openweb, actionscript, vector, html5, flash, graphics, animation, flex Show all Featured downloads: svgweb-0.71-alpha.zip Feeds: * Project feeds Groups: * SVG Web Developer and Discussion List People details Project owners: grick23, bradneuberg, ja...@zavoo.com, bradneub...@google.com SVG Web is a JavaScript library which provides SVG support on many browsers, including Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari. Once dropped in you get partial support for SVG 1.1, SVG Animation (SMIL), Fonts, Video and Audio, DOM and style scripting through JavaScript, and more in about a 60K library. Your SVG content can be embedded directly into normal HTML 5 or through the OBJECT tag. If native SVG support is already present in the browser than that is used, though you can override this and have the SVG Web toolkit handle things instead. No downloads or plugins are

InnovationLog: A Few Articles Worth Reading

dorai — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:39:52 +0000

I post some of these links as Tweets. However, a blog gives you a bit more space to explain why these posts/articles are worth a read. The first is an article from Harvard Business Review about...

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LinkLog: Basic Research

dorai — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 02:42:39 +0000

Some good reasons for doing basic research even in hard economic times from Micorosft Research: Many people across industry, and even some in academia, misunderstand the reasons for investing in...

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InfoStream: Multi-core

dorai — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:08:34 +0000

How SonicWall Scaled Multicore Barriers How SonicWall Scaled Multicore Barriers How multicore processors can provide a big win Parallel Processing and Computer-Aided Manufacturing Parallel Processing...

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LinkLog: Seven Principles of Knowledge

dorai — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:50:54 +0000

From Cognitive Edge: Knowledge can only be volunteered it cannot be conscripted. We only know what we know when we need to know it. In the context of real need few people will withhold their...

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LinkLog: Connective Intelligence

dorai — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:49:16 +0000

I need to thank Bill Daul for bringing this story to our attention. It is about an amazing “visual meditation” about Iran Election. This beautiful article interleaves the science of...

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Twitter Usage Patterns: A Different one from Iran

dorai — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 14:40:58 +0000

Trying to keep up with #iranelection on Twitter, is like trying to drink from a firehose. Twitter, Facebook, twitpics, flickr and youtube have become the new citizen media to get information from a...

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Internet of Things

dorai — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:21:31 +0000

About 3 or 4 years ago, I cam across an Intel presentation on the web, which predicted the spread of internet of things. Today, I came across a fascinating document that describes an European...

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Oh Mighty Search Engines, Please Let Me Tell You What I Want

dorai — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:35:08 +0000

I have been watching Bing, Wolfram Alpha and Google’s Snippets. All of these (and some others) advance search and provide lots of cool features. Their job is challenging since they are trying...

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SLA2009: The Expected and the UnExpected

dorai — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:41:23 +0000

When I attend a conference, I look forward to three things: To learn from peers and experts To network with people who share similar interests To meet new people, hear about new products and have...

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To Conference or Unconference?

dorai — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:40:54 +0000

In our first unconference session at SLA2009, we talked about a lot of things. But most of the discussion centered around conferences vs unconferences. Meg Smith did a wonderful job of moderating...

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Gen Colin Powell at SLA2009

dorai — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 10:36:42 +0000

It was one of the best speeches I heard in a while. He had a great sense of humor, connected well with the InfoPro crowd, was charming and had great insights. I hope they put up the video of the...

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LinkLog: Semantic Web, Data Web, Open Linked Data

dorai — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:59:11 +0000

Infostreams Alerts titled: Semantic Stuff Pellet 2.0 RC7: The SemTech 2009 Release Pellet 2.0 RC7: The SemTech 2009 Release In anticipation of our Pellet tutorial at the Semantic Technology...

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LinkLog: Mullticore and Parallel Programming

dorai — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:53:22 +0000

Infostreams Alert titled: multicore Yahoo Releases Hadoop Source CodeYahoo Releases Hadoop Source Code An open source parallel programming framework Free SDK for High Performance ComputingFree...

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Open Government – An Application of Collective Intelligence?

dorai — Sat, 23 May 2009 13:36:25 +0000

This is one of those blogs, where I have very little to add. I think it is a brilliant idea and would like to see how it develops. From the Open Government site: Some questions to consider in...

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LinkLog: InfoStreams and Embarassingly Parallel Data Analysis Tasks

dorai — Wed, 06 May 2009 00:45:08 +0000

I have been interested (but have not really done anything useful yet) in large scale data analysis. Here are some personal interests: Analyze the InfoStreams I track from Twitter, Blogs and our own...

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Twitter the InfoSocial Web

dorai — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 03:31:18 +0000

Have you ever stood gazing at an open sky on a dark night?. First you see a faint glimmer of a few tiny points of light. As you keep gazing, you will observe more and more stars. Occasionally, you...

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