Archive for 2007
Zattoo - TV to Go
5 August 2007I was browsing around today and I ran into Zattoo - TV to Go. It is a P2P IPTV service provided by an University of Michigan at Ann Arbor startup. See below their claim to fame.
Zattoo acquires, transports and presents quick-start, long-play streaming video in one browser for all channels for broadband users anywhere. Zattoo is the only provider of P2P IPTV to provide users with diverse and desired content of the highest possible video quality in one browser, while dramatically reducing cost and increasing reach for broadcasters and enabling advertisers to leverage the best aspects of both web-based and traditional television advertising methods. Zattoo partners with broadcasters and advertisers to serve consumers with a wide selection of content from various sources in one easy-to-use web interface.
Needless to say I asked for an invitation to test it. I am still waiting for it…
E2K blog has moved
2 August 2007The E2K blog has moved. You can reach it at
http://dita.ncsa.uiuc.edu/e2k/
Crawlers on the loose
19 July 2007Recently, our lab web server has been experiencing a great increase of bot visits. Besides the usual Google, Yahoo, MSN, etc. bots a new one caught my attention. It is visiting pretty frequently: Cuill. From the few information they have on their site, one of the co-founders is a former UIUC CS alumni Anna Patterson.
Cuill Inc. (pronounced [kool]) is a startup company that is pioneering a new approach to Search. The company was founded by Anna, Russell, and Tom. Our offices are located on a quiet street in Menlo Park, CA. If you’d like to learn more about Cuill or the people behind it, please get in touch.
Google Notebook
18 July 2007Google Notebook has a pretty cool add-on for Firefox. It allows you to clip, and organize information from across the web in a single online location that’s accessible from any computer.
Back in town and a Virtuoso
17 July 2007Vacations and GECCO were great. I am still trying to catch up. Hope everything gets up to speed soon. Just a quick note to jump start: Dealing with relational databases, metadata stores, DAV servers? If so, take a look at Virtuoso, you won’t be disappointed 
GECCO 2007 Hat Trick
12 July 2007Yup, never happened to me before. In John Koza’s words: Hat Trick, best paper in EDA track and two Bronze medals in the HUMIES competition. I just think that I was lucky and blessed to have the pleasure to work with such great people. It would not have happened if it wasn’t for them. Below you can find some of the presentations for the above Hat Trick, as well as some other work I presented on genetics-based machine learning.
HTML to Wiki converter
3 June 2007Seapine {Labs}::HTML to Wiki Converter is an online converter of HTML formated code into a Wiki (MediaWiki) sintax. Very convenient if you want to add already formated material.
Blogging about NCSA PSP
22 May 2007Yesterday, today, and tomorrow NCSA is running the PSP 2007 meeting. You may find some of my blogging about it here.
An Overview of the DISCUS project
11 May 2007This presentation covers a general overview of the goals, origins, reasearch and tools currently available for the DISCUS project. For more information please visit the DISCUS project website.
Jon Kleinberg visits UIUC
1 May 2007Jon Kleinberg visited UIUC today and gave a lecture. You may find my notes on my DITA blog.