Anastassia Ailamaki: Staged Database Systems

StefanL, 10.01.06, 23:53

GOOG being what it is and computing moving away from the 70ies, 80ies, 90ies "Client/Server" computing and "HFS/RDB" (Hierarchical File system/Relational Database) storage paradigm, I still think there are lots of applications for small computers and more conventional research. Quite a lot of people still do good work in those fields. One of them seems to be: Anastassia Ailamaki. And two...

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2006 - The Cluetrain Manifesto Revisited

StefanL, 08.01.06, 09:53

7 years after the first publication of the Cluetrain Manifesto the skies start to clear up again and for the first time in 5 years the tinytalk editorial office and the TinyTalk scientific department after much discussion dare to repeat their erstwhile diagnosis: The manifesto form (including the most famous one) is bullshit and gurus err, all the time, if...

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Gute Besserung, Ariel Sharon

StefanL, 07.01.06, 16:12

Der Gesundheitszustand dieses Mannes stellt das schwierigste politische Thema dieser Tage dar, jedenfalls für mich. Ich mochte ihn nie, schlimmer, ich gehörte zu den Leuten, die ihn auch nicht gerade respektierten. Ariel Sharon war und ist ein großer Irreführer. Wie verhält man sich gedanklich also in einer solchen Situation? Viele Palästinenser glauben und/oder sagen, seine Krankheit sei eine Strafe Gottes....

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Achtung: Gewinnspiel!

StefanL, 06.01.06, 22:01

The Question: What is the most important part of the following latin* elliptical phrase: DEVS QVASI NATVRA ? An Explanation: When we asked this the first time (Dec 23) and thought holidays were the right time for it, not the slightest attempt to answer or nullify this simple question was made. So we'll try again. It is not even a riddle and can...

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Gordon Bell, Nomograph

StefanL, 04.01.06, 10:08

Here's an interesting collection of papers on Computer Structures : Principles and Examples by one of those important old men who ended up at MSFTs Bay Area Research Center the acronym of which makes up for a tired echo of Xerox's 70ies thing. Before that he was at Carnegie Mellon and at DEC where hed did development and architecture on...

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Wie schön wäre Wien ohne Wiener

StefanL, 03.01.06, 09:40

Gestern war ich zum ersten Mal seit vielen Jahren wieder in Österreichs großer Benefizanstalt, dem Burgtheater. Otto Tausig stellte sein Buch "kasperl, kummerl, jud" vor, erzählte Witze mit Gott und Einstein, plauderte aus seinem Leben als Regisseur und Schauspieler. Das Ganze hatte den Zweck, Geld für die Befreiung von Sklavenkindern in Indien (in unserer Branche als OpenDatafromBangaloreChildren bekannt)aufzustellen. Kostprobe? Nach 7...

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Carver Mead not quite believing in Unschärfe

StefanL, 02.01.06, 22:51

Carver Mead, eminent physicist of VLSI- and analog-digital fame, does not quite believe in the commonly accepted uncertainty principle or at least he does not take for granted some of the heuristics derived off of Heisenberg's very important theorem. It may have gone under in my Brian Brain comment last week but that link, the story behind it and comment deserve...

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People get ready

StefanL, 01.01.06, 01:01

People get ready There's a train a-comin' You don't need no baggage, you just get on board All you need is faith to hear the diesels hummin' Don't need no ticket, you just thank the Lord People get ready There's a train to Jordan Picking up passengers from coast to coast Faith is key Open the doors and board them There's hope for all among the love the most There ain't...

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