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NOSQL Summer in Graz Kick-Off Meeting

21 Jul

Today was the kick-off  meeting of NOSQL Summer here in Graz, Austria. A NOSQL Summer is a network of local reading groups, that will decipher & discuss NOSQL-related articles, from late June to early September 2010. Each group sets its own meeting pace (usually once a week or once every two weeks) and select which papers [...]

[paper accepted] – Will Personal Learning Environments become ubiquitous through the use of Widgets?

25 May

Few time ago we got the review on our paper submitted to the 9th International Conference on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Technologies (I-KNOW ’09). The paper is titled “Will Personal Learning Environments become ubiquitous through the use of Widgets?” and was accepted as follows: We are pleased to inform you that your paper Title: Will [...]

Google Flu Trends – Google Uses Searches to Track Flu’s Spread

12 Nov

It stands to reason that people who are “starting to come down with something” often take the opportunity to search for information on what ails them, even before they discuss their symptoms with a healthcare professional. Who gets more of those searches than anyone? Google, of course. [ReadWriteWeb] Google offers a new service called Google [...]

European Forum Alpbach – Europe New and Old?

17 Aug

Europe Union New and Old? The seminars of the European Forum Alpbach have started today. One Seminar that I am attennding is called “Europe Old and New?” held by Fraser Cameron, Senior Adviser, European Policy Centre, Brussels and Gregor Woschnagg, Retired Ambassador, Republic of Austria, Vienna. Today we are briefly discussing the past 50 years [...]

European Forum Alpbach

17 Aug

The European Forum Alpbach has started and is going on for the next two weeks. I am really looking forward in participating in different seminars as well as fireside talks.