I received yesterday the following crappy email: To: Prof. Tziralis Georgios Subject: NEW JOURNAL Re: INVITATION FOR CHIEF EDITOR Dear Professor, We are launching a new Journal from 2008 in your specialized field of study. I shall be very grateful to you, if you provide your kind assistance to us for starting a new journal. …
I ‘ve just watched the yesterday’s keynote by Steve Jobs, presenting, among many others, the new iPod touch, with built-in safari browser, actually an iPhone without just the phone functionality. The question that naturally raised to me is that, provided that we live in a (free?) wifi cloud, do we actually need phones? Why do …
colorful, refreshing contemplations; a sunset in sifnos island, a few days before.
IEEE Spectrum on Prediction Markets, an excellent full-fledged article
I cannot but explode after what we experienced this last week in my country. A rash of fires, an unbelievably weak state response and neglect of duty resulted in: 64 people dead (and counting) more than 100 villages destroyed 1.4% of the Greek land area and about 10% of the Peloponnese peninsula burnt in 3-days …
how to build a fast Wikipedia offline readerby NTUA’s Software Engineering Laboratory, via Slashdot and Lifehacker
Open Coffee Athens meetings are now upgraded. Starting from September, on the first Tuesday of each month, 6 people get 5 minutes to show up something cool to the tech community of Athens (geeks, bloggers, entrepreneurs, investors, etc). All these after, in between of and before coffees, drinks and pure, real-world, social networking. The next …
Programming Collective Intelligence: a Machine Learning approach to Web 2.0 applications, by O’Reilly