Archive for July, 2008
This debate stated so boldly on the tittle above, is not something that I’m going to solve in this post. But is something that has made me thinking a lot lately, partly for personal reasons while in the process of wrapping up a PhD, and trying to evaluate what I have learned as the years [...]
I have been experimenting lately a bit, by going “under the hood” in Unix-type of operating systems, specifically Linux (openSuse), NetBSD and OpenBSD… why ? Because it is boring doing the same thing the whole time even if you learn and discover new stuff (see writing PhD thesis and data-mining relational databases).
So what did [...]
Articles in biomedical and www related Journals, containing "semantic web"- Combining Semantic Web technologies with Multi-Agent Systems for integrated access to biological resources.
- A model-driven approach for representing clinical archetypes for Semantic Web environments.
- Life Sciences and the web: a new era for collaboration.
- An ontological knowledge framework for adaptive medical workflow.
- A web-based melanoma image diagnosis support system using topic map and AJAX technologies.
- Advancing post-genome data and system integration through machine learning.
- The semantic web-new ways to present and integrate information.
- Web GIS in practice VI: a demo playlist of geo-mashups for public health neogeographers.
- PIE: A Phenotype Interface Engine for Automated Representation in PATO and Semantic Web-Based Exchange of Clinical Data and Narratives.
- Querying non-materialized ontology views.
- "Semantic, Web, Bioinformatics" posts from Technorati
- Shared from Google Reader
- Hacker News
- Google, HP and others form League of Extraordinary Patent Holders
- Open data is essential for science
- Shortcuts for generating HTML
- The Growing List of Things You Can Do With Google Maps
- International Conference on Functional Programming 2008
- Best question about semantic technology wins a pass for LinkedData Planet conference
- Voices from the future of science: Lorrie LeJeune from OpenWetWare
- arXiv: An API for Research-Grade Information
- Twitter Search via the Summize API
why do I want to built stuff (develop software), instead of writing journal articles
July 30, 2008 in commentary, journals
This is a post adopted from a long email I wrote to a personal acquaintance of mine, where I went on to do some confessions on what I think about the nature of my current academic job. So here it goes:
” I did lots of introspection (and reading, and discussing with other geeks like me) [...]