Steve Flinter’s blog

As I mentioned in my previous post, I’m currently attending WWW2008. John Breslin has posted an excellent summary of the keynote speech by Google’s Kai-Fu Lee. Lee was at the centre of a law suit between Google and Microsoft over his move to Google.
But I digress.
Rather than comment on the presentations themselves, I [...]

I’m very fortunate to be attending the WWW 2008 conference in Beijing, China next week.
Among the highlights for me, from an SFI perspective, will be John Breslin and Uldis Bojars’ half day workshop entitled TP3 – Interlinking Online Communities and Enriching Social Software with the Semantic Web. Both John and Uldis are researchers in [...]

Apropos my last post, there’s an interview with Bertie Ahern in the Independent where he talks about his career and decision to resign. From SFI’s point of view, there’s an interesting quote:

One of the things I am particularly proud of is the work that we did in bringing Science Foundation Ireland, bringing in proper [...]

Out of the blue, the Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern has just announced the date for his resignation: May 6. This seems to have caught everybody, even the media, totally by surprise. When I saw the mails flying around before his speech, I though that it was a day-late April fool’s joke.