On Friday, January 18th, Aaron Seigo, President of the KDE e.V. gave the keynote at the KDE 4.0 Release Event in Mountain View, California about KDE 4, presenting KDE to the world and the world to KDE. The keynote was recorded, and is now available for streaming through Google Video. Continue reading to watch the [...]

This is a joint work with Professor Jan van Eijck(CWI, Netherlands), and Tomasz Sadzik(Stanford, USA). It was presented in Games, action and social software Workshop , 30 Oct – 3 Nov 2006 @ Lorentz Center, Leiden, the Netherlands. A pre-publication version is open for download: Action Emulation. Abstract: The effects of public announcements, private communications, [...]

I just read this interesting article from Scientific America: Science 2.0 Great New Tool, or Great Risk?, by M. Mitchell Waldrop. The main idea is to explore the impact of Web 2.0 tools, like wikis, blogs, on the scientific research. I was thinking about this for a while now. As you see, I started to [...]

Research is a human activity based on intellectual investigation and aimed at discovering, interpreting, and revising human knowledge on different aspects of the world. Research can use the scientific method, but need not do so. Me is a human being. The connection between research and me is my curiosity about this world. We have an [...]