Java and Open GL

I knew there were some efforts to have access to OpenGL from Java, but I did not check it for a while. The JOGL API project has made a long journey since its inception. You can check the demos easily, since they are Java web started applications.

Apr 3, 2007 · 1 min · 47 words · Xavier Llorà

GE498-ECI, Lecture 9: The Unstructured Data Contains a Clue

Lecture 9 covered a quick introduction to text mining. The slides for this lecture can be found below.

Mar 28, 2007 · 1 min · 18 words · Xavier Llorà

GE498-ECI, Lecture 8: Connectivity Everywhere; Graph Theory 101

This lecture covered some of the basis of graph theory. The slides for this lecture can be found below.

Mar 28, 2007 · 1 min · 19 words · Xavier Llorà

Analyzing Trends in the Blogosphere Using Human-Centered Analysis and Visualization Tools

by Xavier Llorà, Noriko Imafuji Yasui, David E. Goldberg (2006). Proceedings of the International Conference on Weblogs and Social Mining (ICWSM 2007). Also as IlliGAL TR. No. 2006026. Link to the PDF. Abstract The blogsphere is a valuable source of information. From simple topic analysis in the blogosphere—what’s hot—to harvesting and analyzing valuable market trends—what product and features are suggested—require a tight integration of computer- and human-based analysis capabilities. Computers can easily assist the processing filtering and visualizing relevant and key elements of the blogosphere, but coupling them with human evaluation and reasoning can provide the final steps to connect pieces of relevant information into better description map of the current trends of the blogosphere....

Mar 26, 2007 · 1 min · 186 words · Xavier Llorà

Communication gap management for fertile community

by Naohiro Matsumura, David E. Goldberg, and Xavier Llorà (2006). Journal of Soft Computing, Volume 11 , Issue 8, pp. 791–798, ACM press. Link to the ACM portal. Initial work also available as IlliGAL TR No 2005001. Abstract In the paper, we first present an approach to extract social networks from message boards on the Internet. Then we propose communication gaps based on structural features of the social networks as an indicator of understanding the state of communication....

Mar 24, 2007 · 1 min · 130 words · Xavier Llorà