Hi again from Montpellier, France. Let me start by saying the Montpellier is very very beautiful city, and if you ever have a chance to come through, you definitely should. Wonderful architecture, great food, perfect weather…its been really nice.
As I said in an earlier post, I’m here attending ODBase 2006. Over the past two days, […]

Hello from Montpellier, France. I’m here attending the ODBase conference and presenting our paper (co-authored with Bijan and Evren) on incremental consistency checking. I actually gave the talk this morning and it went very well. There were about 50 people attending the talk and the audience appeared very interested. The questions which were asked were […]

As Jordan posted, he and I presented our paper yesterday. I think it went very well. We had lots of interested questions at the end of the talk and after the session.
In addition to our session, I visited some others. I was particularly interested in the
Intelligent User Interfaces session, which included a paper co-authored […]

I’m now at the AAAI conference in Boston. Jen Golbeck and I gave our talk yesterday, presenting this paper:
Social Network-based Trust in Prioritized Default Logic
by Yarden Katz and Jennifer Golbeck
We were part of the “Special Track on AI & the Web: Trust & Security”. The talk went well — we got lots of […]

5.31.2006
Over the past two days I’ve been participating in the Description Logic workshop. Yesterday I presented our work on incrementally updating tableau completion graphs under ABox additions and deletions. The talk went well and there were quite a few questions afterwards. First, Franz Baader made a statement regarding his earlier work using axiom pinpointing for […]

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. […]