by Chris Halaschek

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. Again this was largely industry oriented. As you probably see there is a large industry presence at this conference…more that I expected. Anyway, both talks were interesting but not much from a research perspective.

Later in the day, Taowei and I gave the Swoop/Pellet and PhotoStuff talk at Dev day. There was a huge turnout…probably 50-75 attending. As it turns out, the demo went really well…which was nice as 1) Jim was chairing the session and 2) there were so many freaking people there So for Swoop we focused the demo around debugging and visualization. Then we quickly demoed PhotoStuff, showing the communication with the website and some of the NL paraphrasing work. In the end all was well and Taowei and I were pleased (and Jim!!).

After the demo, there was a Scottish whiskey tasting…and tasting I did!

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