After the KiWi Meeting, Georg and I participated for the first time at the Future Internet Assembly, as representatives of the KiWi project and of our company. The conference took place in Kista Science City at the premises of Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (KTH), which are very nice buildings indeed. The first day started with introductions [...]
Read More..>>Im Artikel “Scaling Up at the Tetherless World Constellation in 2009” seines Blogs The Tetherless World Weblog berichte Jesse Weaver von einer “embarrassingly parallel” Berechnung von Milliarden von RDF-Tripeln. Damit wurde neulich der Billion Triples Challenge (BTC) gewonnen. Was bedeutet wohl eine “peinliche parallele Berechnung”? Eigentlich eine Sache, die momentan in Datenbank- und Web-Kreise viele [...]
Read More..>>Roughly every 4 months, we organise a full project meeting where members of all KiWi institutions participate to discuss the current state and next steps. The November 2009 KiWi meeting took place, a bit unusually since there is no partner there, in Stockholm. The reasons for this choice of location were that Stockholm is a [...]
Read More..>>Immer mehr Unternehmen stellen sich der Herausforderung, sich einer sich sehr ändernden Umgebung anzupassen. Dafür erweisen sich die alten hierarschichen Arbeitformen in der Regel ungeeignet. So versuchen viele Unternehmen de neuen sozialen Meiden unternehmensintern einzusetzen. Der Artikel “Wikis in the workplace: a practical introduction” von ars technica berichtet über Erfolge und Schwierigkeiten beim Einsatz von [...]
Read More..>>Yesterday night from 16:41 to 24:00 we had the big event we prepared for in the last weeks and even months: the “Lange Nacht der Forschung” (“Researchers Night Austria”), an Austria-wide event where research institutions try to bring science and research closer to the public. Of course, KiWi was present at this event, as foundation [...]
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