The PASS (Provenance Aware Storage Systems) Workshop held at Harvard May 31 covered issues related to provenance and file systems.
We began with Margo Seltzer presenting an introduction to the PASS system (http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/syrah/pass/) and how it stores the full provenance of files. This includes all of the operations performed, libraries opened in creating the file, […]
Sorry to be so far behind everyone else on blogging about the WW2006, but this has been my first chance to really sit down and write. Let me just begin by saying that I had a terrific time and learned a great deal more than I thought I would. My lack of technical […]
(Written on 5.27.2006)
Today was spent mostly traveling. Taowei and I hopped an early flight from Edinburgh to London Heathrow airport. Once there are paths split part as he continued home, while I stayed in the UK. As I’m writing this I’m on a train heading towards Manchestor to spend two nights with Bijan. I’m really […]
This week I was lucky enough to attend the International Provenance and Annotation Workshop in Chicago. On one hand, there was a very small contingent of Semantic Web researchers here. While some people knew of RDF, the focus was much different than I was used to or expected.
While our community (or at least, me as […]
Today opened with a keynote by two speakers one from Oracle and one from Microsoft. Mary-Ann Davidson, from Oracle, addressed security and was a good talk, however really oriented towards the industry ‘persons’ in the audience. After this discussion, Tony Hey from Microsoft gave a second keynote which was focused around Microsoft’s interest e-Science etc. […]
After last night’s “buffet” (which really means light snacking) at the Edinburgh Castle and a night of scripting, Chris and I are presenting “Tools for the Semantic Web” — Swoop (debugging/visualization) and PhotoStuff. Chris had been taking pictures around the conference for annotation. The conference’s wireless is… terrible (11b, and obviously the relay points are […]
Today’s opening panel had Tim, Jim, and two industry representatives. The focus is the next wave of the semantic web. Questions for the panelists range from the perspectives of the last few years to looking ahead of the future. The surprising thing of importance, according to Jim, is the speed of growth of the semantic […]
W00t! It’s sunny out today, though the weather forecast foretells rain and cloud. The main auditorium is opened an opening ceremony. A pair of bagpipte players and traditional dancers led the organizers and guests in. Wendy Hall and Sir TBL both gave short talks. The opening key note was given by David Brown, CEO of […]
So two days have past, so I thought I’d catch you all up to speed on whats been going on. First I’ll talk about the happenings two days ago, then talk about yesterday.
So, two days ago (5/23/06), the conference was officially open. The opening ceremony was actually quite fun…there were bag pipe players and traditional […]
Last week I attended the iTrust Conference in Pisa. The conference brings together researchers from many fields who are looking at issues of trust. While the majority of people there were looking at computational aspects of trust, there were also sociologists, philosophers, and economists.
We discussed how to model trust, how trust worked in networks, and […]
