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Propozycje tematow na Jesienne Spotkania PTI

Jak co roku zwracam się do was z prośba o głosowanie na tematy zgłoszone przeze mnie do Jesiennych Spotkań PTI.

Glosujemy na stronie http://www.xxv.jesienne-spotkania-pti.org/md/proposals/&key=proposals&ord=9 (trzeba sie uprzednio zarejestrowac/zalogowac)

W zeszłym roku moja prezentacja o Zarządzaniu wiedzą w Web 3.0 cieszyła się dużym powodzeniem.

W tym roku szczesliwe numerki to:

Z góry dziękuję za oddane na mnie głosy.

[UPDATE]

Powyższe 3 tematy uzyskały największą liczbę głosów. Tym samym zajęły pierwsze trzy miejsca. Mam nadzieję, że organizatorzy nie mają mi za złe małego marketingu :)

Next week: my PhD defense (Semantic Digital Libraries )

The day has come to wrap up the research I have been doing for the last couple of years. After closing the write up and submitting my thesis in February this year, my PhD defense is approaching very soon.
Here is some information about it. If you are around Galway next Monday - you are [...]

new knowledge management on Web 3.0 services

I have been extremely busy recently. Probably this is why I was not blogging too much. But here is the reason:The last two months I have been building a new software platform for knowledge management on Web 3.0 called digi.me.
It is based on the research of my team (formerly Corrib.org, now KnowledgeHives.com) on semantic digital [...]

what I have been up to lately ?

I hear people asking - how are things? I tell ya - things have never been that busy (so you can imagine …).
But it is getting better. There were three projects ahead of me when I was living DERI in December 2008:

finish furnishing our new apartment and move in
submit my PhD thesis
deliver the private beta [...]

Packages ready for shipping

Packages ready for shipping Originally uploaded by skruk
The time has come to say goodbye to Ireland and move back to Poland. We have just packed our last 5 years into 40 boxes which will be shipped today.
see http://www.flickr.com/photos/skruk/3111459782/ for the second group of boxes … [...]

Google Translator cannot translate ?

Last week I was attending a very interesting presentation on Google Translate.As could expect - statistical approach to translations is not perfect.But I did not dream that Google can translate:

Mazury as Hawaii

Gdańsk as Atlanta

Wawelski Smok as George Washington

Or even decide that it cannot translate at all

(see for yourself - the Polish translation [...]

Getting Things Done

Weź to k***a zrób
View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: agora 25)

Powerful again

A few weeks ago my MacBook Pro battery decided it is too old (1 year !) and needs to retire. After many unexpected drops for power from 40% to 0% in a second I decided it will not heal itself magically.
Colleague of mine suggested I should not buy an Apple replacement (which I should got [...]

Getting my teeth into HDR

HDR is a cool technique - even though some of the photos look artificial/artistic - usually it is worth trying.

You can view a slideshow with it here

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Call me homophobic - but this is too much …

Usually I do not care too much about politics, etc. And in most cases I agree that people have their right to live their own way as long as they do not affect the way other people live.
Call me homophobic - but I cannot stand when I head more and more countries in Europe allow [...]