Notes

A hidden treasure found in the Urbana Free Library. University of Illinois vs a Mummy is a movie made by students at UofI. If you have never been in UofI you will find this movie pretty hilarious.

Last Friday with ALG and DITA people we put a brief presentation for NCSA’s cyberarch group on our common efforts to create a generic framework for querying and visualizing content stored in metadata stores. Mulgara, SOAP, XLSTs, and custom Java code to render content using Prefuse and JFreeChart. You can download the slides here.

The group was created a while ago to unify the research efforts conducted inside the Automated Learning Group. Michael Welge, Loretta Auvil, and I were sitting in Michael’s office a Monday morning scratching our heads. He generated the initial population, Loretta recombined the ideas, and I just selected what I liked. So, we become Data-Intensive Technologies and Applications :D.

I just run into an interesting Wordpress MU plugin to render mathematical equations via LaTeX commands.

There is a poetry contest at UIUC in honor of Paul Borgeson (former UIUC decesed faculty). You still have time to turn your poem in till April 6th. It is never to late to have fun.