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

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 [...]

RecSys09

RecSys09

A couple of weeks ago I attended the 3rd ACM Conference on Recommender Systems which was an experience nothing else than excellent.

Day one started with a tutorial on trust based recommendations bu Jenifer Golbeck who is an authority when it comes to trust and recommendation systems. Luckily she was kind enough to [...]

ECML-PKDD 2009

The European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD) took place in Bled in Slovenia and I had the opportunity to be there. Actually the poster-paper we had was at the Discovery Challenge held in conjunction with the conference.

ECML-PKDD

The conference itself was quite big [...]

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 [...]

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