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Zanzibaritis

alan — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 21:11:30 +0000

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

alan — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:34:25 +0000

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

alan — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:04:57 +0000

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

alan — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:21:19 +0000

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

alan — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:44:36 +0000

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 [...]

Berlin – Göteborg

alan — Sun, 31 May 2009 16:28:14 +0000

During the last couple of weeks I’ve been helping friends with their travel plans from Gothenburg to Berlin. Since there is no one page listing all alternatives I thought I’d make one. (Rest of post in Swedish).

Flyg – direkt:

AirBerlin – klart enklaste alternativet, flyger en gång om dagen (förutom lördagar). Priser kan variera; [...]

CeBIT & Barcelona

alan — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 20:09:08 +0000

So, I guess I got bored with the blogging thing. Never really was into it anyways, mostly wanted to test the software… but as I’m not really doing anything right now (or avoiding doing the things I should be doing) I thought I might write a little update of what’s been going [...]

Gothenburg, Munich, Berlin

alan — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:38:58 +0000

Well, it’s been some time since I wrote anything here so here goes. Been quite busy with a visit in Gothenburg, and then another trip to Munich and Oktoberfest. Met with pretty much the same crowd in both places which was really nice. In Gothenburg we had a 3C2006 reunion in the form of crayfish [...]

back to gbg

alan — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 06:41:33 +0000

So, saw Metallica the other day, went to Schloss Sanssouci some time ago, and now its almost time for Sweden.

Going tomorrow, haven’t been back since I moved here almost four months ago so I’m looking forward to it.