Today, Meandre 1.4.0 has been released. The final release includes the infrastructure, tools (Workbench, ZigZag, etc.), and a set of component and flow repositories. Also, 1.4.1 will be also released later today adding the latest feature updates and few bug fixes on the tools.
Today I just tagged the final release candidate RC6 for the Meandre Infrastructure. The list of improvement from the previous 1.3.2 release is long, but I just want to highlight a few of them. Standardization of web services and their response information. Also added new services to help manage users, repositories, and jobs. The infrastructure is now able to provide a single system image cluster of Meandre servers. It also provides a new light weight HTML interface for easy administration. Location addition has been speeded up minimizing the network usage. Component contexts are locally cached, drastically reducing the preparation time of a flow before executing. Also, all the reported bugs reported so far has been fixed. Hopefully, the release will be pushed out this coming week. Stay tuned :D. Also, a few documentation for developers interested in the infrastructure can be find on the development tools Confluence wiki. ...
Martin Pelikan just posted on the MEDAL and IlliGAL blogs that the GECCO 2009 paper submission deadline has been extended till January 28. Always, great news to finish polishing last minute changes :D It seems that the website is not yet updated, neither emails sent to the usual mailing lists. Just a matter or time I guess ;) And since I am talking about GECCO 2009, you may also want to take a look at the competitions announcement video that Pier Luca Lanzi put together below. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7cbgBOkn-s ...
David E. Goldberg has posted a serie of three short talks about how to promote creative interdisciplinary work in places where highly disciplinary work is conducted. This talks are part of the iFoundry initiative at the University of Illinois. You may find the sequence below and the slides on SlideShare. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GM-ASQ00pGA httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwt4hzo857Q httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqX-2ttcHbM
After attending Albert Orriols’s Ph.D. thesis defense, I ended wondering how many of the question I posted in mine have not been solved. The answer, quite a bit. So, I just decided to dig it up, and put it up here. Yes, the thesis was not written in English (in those days my fellowship had some strings attached), but math formulation, graphs, and results are readable in any language ;) Also, GALE was written and documented in english, and is available here. ...