Month: September 2008
WADL (Web Application Description Language) - Call for Contributors for Open Source CodePlex Project
For those who use Windows Communication Foundation extensively know that unlike SOAP based services, there is a lack of REST services contractual support in WCF. In lieu of this need, I have started this project, WADL on CodePlex, to build a tool which generates code for RESTFul Web services and RESTFul Web service clients from…
Concluding Thoughts on KDD 2008 and High Resolution Posters.
(Update: I finally got around to upload the conference posters in original higher resolution. This wasn't my usual cannon so sorry for the little grainy result but it should be kinda readable.) KDD 2008 was a great learning experience, providing opportunities for life-long learning, career development, and professional networking. It helps very much in getting…
Video : KDD Session on Anomaly Pattern Detection in Categorical Datasets
Video : KDD Session on Outlier Detection in High Dimensional Data
KDD 2008 - Day 3 & 4.
Day 3 started with Invited Talk of Dr. Michael Schwarz from Yahoo! Research on “Internet Advertising and Optimal Auction Design” who discussed Generalized English Auctions and Internet advertising, generalized second price options. (Details can be read on Akshay Java’s Social Media research blog here). It was an interesting talk pertaining to how almost every transaction…
Call for Volunteers - SoCal Code Camp Oct 25-26.
Greetings Southern California .NET Community I was wondering if any of you would be able to volunteer to help register speakers, attendees, & help with general organization, etc. on the Code Camp event days (Saturday/Sunday October 25/26). I am heading up Volunteer Coordination so if you are available please contact me directly () and put…
KDD 2008 Day 2
Day 2 started with Trever Hastie’s talk on regularization paths and coordinate descent. It was great to see Dr. Hastie passionately speaking about the coordinate descent, logistic regression and fitting. The keynote’s topic was “Regularization Paths and Coordinate Descent” and following is a brief abstract from the talk. "In a statistical world faced with an…
Post Event Resources - MSDN Webcast on REST and WCF
The MSDN webcast on geekSpeak: REST and Windows Communication Foundation 3.5 went very well; Since REST is a very broad topic and there were tons of questions, I didn’t get a chance to show all the demos however the sample code can be downloaded from here. Sample Code Also, keep an eye on geek speak…
