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#RecSys2010 day 0

I’m in Barcelona, at a hotel a stone’s throw from Parc de la Ciutadella, getting ready for RecSys2010.

Arrived here yesterday and spent most of the day in my hotel room working on my slides for my presentation at the Doctoral Symposium tomorrow. Or at least, I planned on working on them. This being my [...]

Zanzibaritis

Friends of mine decided to move their company to Zanzibar for three months (November 2009 – January 2010). This did of course mean that, being the good friend that I am, I had to visit.

So, on January first, not very much after I had gotten back from the New Year’s celebration I was at, [...]

IUI2010

I’m currently at the 2010 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces in Hong Kong. We’re halfway through the programme, having heard sessions on Access/Brain Interfaces, Smart Reading, Intelligent Agents, Mobile Interaction and the workshops (Intelligent Visual Interfaces for Text Analysis, Multimodal Interfaces for Automotive Applications, Semantic Models for Adaptive Interactive Systems, Eye Gaze [...]

Gbg

Awesome weekend in Göteborg last weekend. Sunny, perfect weather, perfect swimming temp., parties, two friends getting married and good company.

Now just under a week left till it’s time for just over a week in Cracow.

If only my Matlab results were as good…

Visiting Kurdistan

So, I’ve been meaning to write this for a long time, so here goes.

In the last week of March me and my parents went to visit relatives in Kurdistan, Iraq.

Iraqi Kurdistan has been an autonomous region since the early nineties thus it’s fairly safe and open to western influences. Before this trip me [...]

RT @abellogin: Huge #recsys survey (from physics people): 97 pages, 321 refs http://t.co/3v6m3591 about 16 hours ago from TweetDeck Reply Retweet Favorite
RT @aquigley: Submit to DC! RT @pervasive2012 The submission system is now open for Pervasive 2012 demos, posters, videos and doctoral c ... 01:11:06 AM February 08, 2012 from web Reply Retweet Favorite
"new" x201 thinkpad (Core i5) runs laps round my old x200 thinkpad (Core2Duo) :) 09:07:58 PM February 07, 2012 from TweetDeck Reply Retweet Favorite
The #recsys2012 Call for tutorial proposals: http://t.co/Hrn27DL2 #recsys 08:14:13 PM February 07, 2012 from TweetDeck Reply Retweet Favorite
Time to sign up http://t.co/C885BVvJ #recsys2012 #recsys 02:36:37 PM February 07, 2012 from TweetDeck Reply Retweet Favorite
#recsys2012 Call for Workshops is out: http://t.co/EzwGbBPv #recsys 02:15:39 PM February 07, 2012 from TweetDeck Reply Retweet Favorite
RT @pbrane: Mahout 0.6 is out! http://t.co/QkPHaeub (release notes: https://t.co/LhcR25EC ) 12:27:52 AM February 07, 2012 from web Reply Retweet Favorite
RT @mstrohm: due to many requests, the HT'2012 submission deadline was extended. for more info please see the conf. website http://t.co/ ... 08:33:13 PM February 06, 2012 from web Reply Retweet Favorite
I wish there was another 3-4 weeks till #iui2012.... #brokendemo 07:20:58 PM February 06, 2012 from web Reply Retweet Favorite
@tototingle sadly the alternatives aren't really that much better. 07:05:09 PM February 06, 2012 from web in reply to tototingle Reply Retweet Favorite

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