Savas Parastatidis wrote a blog entry on the semantic web and machine learning, covering the existing history of this area and discussing the future of semantic processing as well as the false starts the area has had in past. For hope of a future, he calls to Apple’s Siri technology and discusses how the knowledge web will …
Generative Type Abstraction and Type-level Computation
I haven’t had lunch with Simon for awhile (it’s hard since he’s in Cambridge and only visits main campus occasionally) but he publishes papers at an amazing pace, and every time his language, Haskell, and the world gets a lot smarter. Here he introduces the concept of “roles” to aid in the problems that occur …
What I’ve Been Working On: Office365 in Beta!
Use to be at Microsoft products had predictable release cycles. Released in “waves”, you could anticipate a period of creativity and envisioning at the beginning, a period of hard work coding and hacking in the middle (this is when you sleep in your office), and a period of release and downtime often accompanied with a …
What I’ve Been Working On: Microsoft Online Now Supports BlackBerry In The Cloud
For the last few months, we have been working hard on something great for our customers and partners. For the first time businesses and consumers who prefer BlackBerry® devices will be able to purchase both Exchange Online services and Hosted BlackBerry® services together in the cloud without needing any additional servers or software. This feature provides …
Un-PC Reality
One of the things in all the better Leadership training seminars I’ve been to in my career has been the insistence and dedication to reality. Usually the best strike hard by announcing a string of facts about what is changing that is causing organizational problems and asking everyone to confront them. There are some that …
The Rise Of Functional Programming: F#/Scala/Haskell and the failing of Lisp
Over at Lambda The Ultimate, the best academic programming blog on earth, there is a large debate going on regarding what the future of languages will be for 2008. The most important thing to emerge from the discussion is the larger role functional programming will play. It seems like a safe bet. This year has seen the …