Virginia Tech’s Irving John (Jack) Good, one of the founders of modern Bayesian inference and a member of the World War II code-breaking team at Bletchley Park, died of natural causes on April 5 in Radford
"Under the terms of the agreement, articles
by UC-affiliated authors accepted for
publication in a Springer journal beginning in 2009 will be published
using Springer Open Choice with full and immediate open access. There
will be no separate per-article charges, since costs have been factored
into the overall license
By Julie Rehmeyer
Web edition : Friday, November 14th, 2008
Mathematicians develop computer proof-checking systems in order to realize century-old dreams of fully precise, accurate mathematics.
Press Release
UMBEL Unveils New RESTful Web Services
BURLINGTON, MA, October 30, 2008 - Zitgist LLC, in support of the UMBEL subject integration project for the Web, today announced the release of a number of freely available Web services. These Web services help Web publishers to describe and publish their content for data integration purposes with other content providers on the Web. Other services also help users find this content.
Henri Cartan, a mathematician known for meticulous proofs and for inspiring a revival of mathematics in France after World War II, died in Paris on Aug. 13. He was 104.
Use Google Spreadsheets API to create a database in the cloud
Mr. Jeffrey W Scudder (Google)
30min Intermediate
case study, cloud computing, google spreadsheets, online databse, web, web services
I'll show you how to create a Python module which wraps the Google Spreadsheets Data API web service in an interface so that it looks like a local database. Using this tool, your application can run anywhere with Internet connectivity and users will be able to take their data with them. The benefit of using Google Spreadsheets for a back-end is that it provides a simple UI which is easy for non programmers to interact with. The cost of provisioning and running a Spreadsheets based database is zero from the perspective of an application developer. This example module provides a toolkit which simplifies interactions with the Google Spreadsheets API for a specific use case: using a spreadsheet like a remote database.
Each year the JHEPS lists the books and articles on the history of probability and statistics that have appeared in the previous year. The list of 2007 publications is due to appear in February 2008. Of course, omissions can be made good at any time and, if you know of any in the list below, please contact me, John Aldrich
CALL FOR PAPERS
1st International Workshop on Collective Semantics:
Collective Intelligence & the Semantic Web (CISWeb 2008)
http://mklab.iti.gr/CISWeb/
Hosted by the 5th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC-08)
http://www.eswc2008.org/
June 1, 2008, Tenerife, Spain
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The Web 2.0 has introduced new style of information sharing platforms favoring mass participation of users and resulting overall interestingness over the individual quality of information content and information organization. Dynamic knowledge emerges as the outcome of the interactions of masses of users in social networks (over 40 million in facebook). Thereby, the heterogeneity of data sources (e.g. multimedia, over 1 billion photos in flickr; over 1 million streams/day from YouTube), the scale of information (25% of network traffic is estimated to be YouTube related) and the huge amount of knowledge (100 millions of postings in flickr), pose many difficulties in discovering relevant information and in arriving at a larger picture of the available content.
Pre- and Post-Conference Virtual Sessions
for the 2008 IIIS' Conferences
The Organizing Committees of 2008 IIIS' conferences decided to implement pre- and post-Conference virtual sessions for the 2008 IIIS' Conferences. This decision was based on the experiment, related to this kind of virtual sessions, done in the 2006 IIIS' conferences; on some of the suggestions that 2006 conversational sessions generated, and on the survey made among the participants of these conferences. Each pre- and post-conference virtual session will be associated, in one-to-one relationship, to each face-to-face session of the conference.
The vision of the Semantic Web is to enhance today's Web by exploiting machine-processable metadata. The explicit representation of the semantics of data, enriched with domain theories (ontologies), will enable a web that provides a qualitatively new level of service. It will weave together a large network of human knowledge and makes this knowledge machine-processable. Various automated services will help the users to achieve their goals by accessing and processing information in machine-understandable form. This network of knowledge systems will ultimately lead to truly intelligent systems, which will be employed for various complex decision-making tasks. Semantic Web research can benefit from ideas and cross-fertilization with many other areas: Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Databases and Information Systems, Information Retrieval, Multimedia, Distributed Systems, Social Networks and Web Engineering. Many advances within these areas can contribute towards the realization of the Semantic Web.