http://naveenashish.blogsome.com Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:17:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So do we need (yet!) another programming language ….. From an unexpected quarter, Google, comes a new language GO touted as a savior for present maladies. Seems worth a look at least …. and there is an impressive pedigree behind it - of the Bell Labs C, C++ and UNIX ers ... http://naveenashish.blogsome.com/2009/11/16/go-go-go/ This report is a must read for computer science folks, especially in data management, and semantics. http://naveenashish.blogsome.com/2009/09/28/computational-technology-for-effective-healthcare-nrc-report/ We’ve heard the phrase “public private partnership” rather often, in the context of (higher) education in India. Check out the LNMIIT - which seems to be an actual example of such an entity. http://naveenashish.blogsome.com/2008/10/03/ppp-the-lnmiit/ Why do we need a “semantic-web” ? (Web) search appears as one compelling application so far …. however the user honestly seen anything useful and scalable yet …. Powerset - hurry up !! However it seems to medical and clinical informatics is one community that has really adopting (and wisely ... http://naveenashish.blogsome.com/2008/04/04/search-nay-medical-informatics-the-semantic-web-killer-app/ Our EII article is out in this month’s edition of DM Review Magazine. This is a good overview of the “schema-less” data integration approach we have been advocating from the NETMARK work at NASA Ames. http://naveenashish.blogsome.com/2008/01/22/our-article-on-eii/ SUN acquired MySQL last week for $1B. What does this bode for open-source DBs, and open-source software in general …. ? http://naveenashish.blogsome.com/2008/01/22/mysql-acquisition/ This is an information extraction system for relation (slot-filling) extraction from free text. Details at http://www.ics.uci.edu/~ashish/xar/ We hope to be able to make it available to the community very soon. http://naveenashish.blogsome.com/2007/08/18/xar-extraction-system/ Couple of (unrelated) interesting companies I would like to follow in 07. One is Powerset that is out to address natural language/semantic search. Another is moka5 which is touting the “LivePC” concept - I have’nt tried their product yet (intend to) but from what I understand you can ... http://naveenashish.blogsome.com/2007/01/01/interesting-companies/ The SAMI project has been officially “launched” in the past few months. The project website is http://sami.ics.uci.edu SAMI is now one of the primary projects in RESCUE (www.itr-rescue.org) We have some exciting plans for next generation situational awareness systems, of course along with formidable challenges in several areas. http://naveenashish.blogsome.com/2006/02/10/the-sami-project/ The “schema-less” and lean approach to information integration, as advocated by NETMARK is being well received. Papers on NETMARK (”Semi-structured Data Management ……”; IDEAS 2005 etc.) are available off http://www.ics.uci.edu/~ashish/publications.htm I presented the ideas last month at SIGMOD in the industrial session, and then at IDEAS 2005 and received a rather ... http://naveenashish.blogsome.com/2005/08/05/schema-less-data-management/