Being strong pro on the topic of open access I always try to publish all my work on my blog but sometimes I am busy or I forget to update so today I took the time to look at all my old drafts and the stuff that hasn’t been published yet. So here is a …
Author: Rene
How to do a presentation in China? Some of my experiences
So the culture is different from Western culture we all know that! I am certainly not an expert on China but after living in China for almost 2 years knowing some language and working in a chinese company seeing presentations every week and also visiting over 30 western and chinese companies placed in China I …
Support Simon Turschner's project Vensenya to help children in need
This morning I received an email from Simon Turschner asking me to look at his new project Vensenya. http://www.indiegogo.com/vensenya I did and donated 150 Euro to the project because I think it is just great what Simon plans to do. I know Simon from a summer academie in Guidel 2008 after he received his master …
Report of Socialcom2012 online in our new WeST blog
Hey everyone, longtime no see! Well yeah the summer time usually means vaccation and traveling and so on. But I also have been busy creating some cool content and visiting some conference! So first of all together with my friend Leon Kastler I have established our new WeST Blog. The goal is to be more …
Big step towards open access by Great Britain and a comment from Neelie Kroes
During my vaccation a lot of stuff has been happened and it was just for today that I came along the following article and discussion: http://royalsociety.org/policy/projects/science-public-enterprise/report/. Yes you read correctly the royal society wants to create open access to all publications financed by the British government. What a big step! Congratulation to all British people …
Typology Oberseminar talk and Speed up of retrieval by a factor of 1000
Almost 2 months ago I talked in our oberseminar about Typology. Update: Download slides Most readers of my blog will already know the project which was initially implemented by my students Till and Paul. I am just about to share some slides with you. They explain on one hand how the systems works and on …
Submission history of my first academic research paper (graphity at socialcom 2012)
My graph index graphity was – as mentioned in another blogpost – accepted at socialcom 2012. After I explained how it works and sharted the source code I now want to share some information about the history of submissions, reviews, quality of reviews, taken actions and so on. So if you are a coder, hacker, …
Graphity source code and wikipedia raw data is online (neo4j based social news stream framework)
UPDATE: there is now the source code of an entire graphity server application online! 8 months ago I posted the results of my research about fast retrieval of social news feeds and in particular my graph index graphity. The index is able to serve more than 12 thousand personalized social news streams per second in …
Swiftkey XKCD comic: Sorry this has not happened before…
Current readers of my blog know about typology. The project which makes predictions of what you will type in next on your smartphone. This is of course pretty similar to Swiftkey. Amazing to see how xkcd took swiftkey as a topic for the current comic. More amazing is that 3 people (not in the development …
Building an Autocompletion on GWT with RPC, ContextListener and a Suggest Tree: Part 0
Over the last weeks there was quite some quality programming time for me. First of all I built some indices on the typology data base in which way I was able to increase the retrieval speed of typology by a factor of over 1000 which is something that rarely happens in computer science. I will …