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This is an excerpt from Alwyn Barry’s web page (Thanks Pier Luca for pointing it out) Most people who know me will be aware that I am changing job shortly. I will be leaving the University of Bath from 30th September 2007, and will no longer be an academic. I am moving to Street in Somerset to become the Pastor of Street Baptist Church. I am still happy to answer any questions relating to my previous research, so do feel free to contact me via my new email address, which is linked from this site....

I am currently working on an open source project (do not ask me which since it will surface soon, and I should not talk much about it till it does ;)) that required to provide web access to apps, services, and contents. From my days fighting with Mulgara descriptors I remembered that Jetty (full-featured web server implemented entirely in Java) could be embedded into applications to provide such services. It has been two months now since I started using, and it is a nice, shiny, and slick piece of software....

Kumara has just defended his Ph.D. thesis “Genetic Algorithms and Genetic Programming for Multiscale Modeling: Applications in Materials Science and Chemistry and Advances in Scalability”. The gallery above shows snapshots of Kumara in action. If you have not taken a look at his excellent work, put it on your todo list, you will not regret it. Congratulations!

I am sitting at the workshop on the Engineer of the Future hosted at NCSA. The workshop is part of the ETSI lecture series organized by Michael Loui and David E. Goldberg. The talks so far are very interesting. Hard to highlight all the relevant points, but I would like to mention the experience Sherra E. Kerns is sharing about their experience at Olin College. The engagement with the curriculum that students show is very remarkable....

I am sitting at the workshop on the Engineer of the Future hosted at NCSA. The workshop is part of the ETSI lecture series organized by Michael Loui and David E. Goldberg. The talks so far are very interesting. Hard to highlight all the relevant points, but I would like to mention the experience Sherra E. Kerns is sharing about their experience at Olin College. The engagement with the curriculum that students show is very remarkable....