Adnan Masood, a Machine Learning Phd's musings on Life, Technology, Research & Development
“The Web Service Software Factory (also known as the Service Factory) is an integrated collection of tools, patterns, source code and prescriptive guidance. It is designed to help you quickly and consistently construct WCF and ASMX Web services that adhere to well known architecture and design patterns.” - Excerpt from MSDN, Web Services Software factory…
Yesterday I attended an informative MSDN event in Ontario, California on CardSpace, AJAX Client Library and AJAX best practices. Lynn Langit did an excellent job explaining the concepts and basic implementation details. Even though it wasn't intended towards intermediate/advance developers, it's a good refresher if you are not actively using these technologies or want to…
Goodbye wires… MIT team experimentally demonstrates wireless power transfer, potentially useful for powering laptops, cell phones without cords Franklin Hadley, Institute for Soldier NanotechnologiesJune 7, 2007 Imagine a future in which wireless power transfer is feasible: cell phones, household robots, mp3 players, laptop computers and other portable electronics capable of charging themselves without ever being…
Just finished watching "The World's Fastest Indian" and loved the quote."It's not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or when the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by dust…
Dawn is Pakistan's Largest and most widely circulated English language newspaper. With excellent reporting and contents, this is one of my many reads as a self proclaimed news junkie. Oddly enough, for some reason they never published an RSS feed for the paper so I (and I'm sure other readers) had no way of reading…
A very cool tool, Gapminder is defined as "taking information that’s “dry as dust” and making it visible through animation. Making sense of the world by having fun with statistics!" http://tools.google.com/gapminder/ GapMinder - Google Tech Talk Google has a knack for statistics so they bought it. A list of what Google bought in the past…
I’ll be speaking at Santa Barbara .NET Users Group on June 13th at 6pm. The topic of my presentation is Windows Communication Foundation. Further details of the meeting can be found here. http://www.sbdotnetug.org/ Presentation Abstract Windows Communication Foundation is Microsoft's Unified Programming Model which allows us to build secure, reliable, transacted, and interoperable distributed applications.…
Some good software and website resources for belief networks. Software SamIam from UCLA http://reasoning.cs.ucla.edu/samiam/ GeNIe/SMILE from the University of UPitt: http://genie.sis.pitt.edu/ Hugin lite from Hugin: http://www.hugin.com MSBN from Microsoft Research: http://www.research.microsoft.com/dtas/msbn/ JAVABayes from CMU: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~javabayes/Home/ Netica from Norsys http://www.norsys.com References · The Association for Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence · A Brief Introduction…
Haiku goes Two interesting introsto web 2.0 and SOAthe youtube way. Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us What is Service Oriented Architecture SOA?
How do you see your data? In the form of tables, CSV files, text reports, graphs, charts or may be something more interactive like geo-spatial maps. IMHO, Visualization is quite important to making sense of data; if you want to really know what’s in it, I’d want to see something more than a mental image.…