Open Source

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: I am asking you for a big favor in this blog post! You can help me to achieve one of my childhood dreams: I am an enthusiastic teacher and love to share information (as you might have seen by reading my blog) Over the last month I have designed [...]

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Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Being strong pro on the topic of open access I always try to publish all my work on my blog but sometimes I am busy or I forget to update so today I took the time to look at all my old drafts and the stuff that hasn’t been [...]

Continue reading about Open access and data from my research. Old resources for various topics finally online.

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Almost 2 months ago I talked in our oberseminar about Typology. Update: Download slides Most readers of my blog will already know the project which was initially implemented by my students Till and Paul. I am just about to share some slides with you. They explain on one hand [...]

Continue reading about Typology Oberseminar talk and Speed up of retrieval by a factor of 1000

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: 8 months ago I posted the results of my research about fast retrieval of social news feeds and in particular my graph index graphity. The index is able to serve more than 12 thousand personalized social news streams per second in social networks with several million active users. I [...]

Continue reading about Graphity source code and wikipedia raw data is online (neo4j based social news stream framework)

René Pickhardt on March 12th, 2012

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Recently I visited my friend Heinrich Hartmann in Oxford. We talked about various issues how research is done in these days and how the web could theoretically help to spread information faster and more efficiently connect people interested in the same paper / topics. The idea of http://www.related-work.net was [...]

Continue reading about Related-work.net – Product Requirement Document released!

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Claudio Martella introduces Apache Giraph which according to him is a loose implementation of Google Pregel which was introduced  on SIGMOD in 2010. He points out that Map Reduce cannot be used to do graph processing. He then gave an example on how MapReduce can be used to to do page rank calculation. He points [...]

Continue reading about Claudio Martella talks @ FOSDEM about Apache Giraph: Distributed Graph Processing in the Cloud

René Pickhardt on February 4th, 2012

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Since I went to Brussesl to attend the Free Open Source Developer European Meeting and give a talk about graphity I had also some time to attend some interesting talks. Since I will teach a class in summer for students about creating a basic webserver and webbrowser I decided [...]

Continue reading about Attending Mozilla Devroom at FOSDEM: Hacking Gecko by Bobby Holley

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Believing in open models and supporting ideas of copy left I am more than happy to see the current developement of scientists worldwide publicly making statements of not supporting Elsevier in the future which I will obviously join! You can find the page where scientists make thos statements under: http://thecostofknowledge.com/ [...]

Continue reading about Open Access and the Boycott of Elsevier! Let uns not stop here and take the digital revolution one step further!

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: UPDATE: (Feb. 8th. 2012) the originial love language video is now linked under the official look for love Video from DJ Sammy! Glad to see that and glad to see that protest on the web seems to be heared. Now I can finally completely enjoy DJ sammy’s work without [...]

Continue reading about Look for love video: Did DJ Sammy steel the video story from jubilees Love Language video? Watch both clips!

René Pickhardt on January 3rd, 2012

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: In an earlier post I have explained the need for a Facebook streaming app that has to be enhanced with some features in order to create viral word of mouth effects. Together with Yann Leretaille and Robert Naumann we programmed the facebook API and developed such an app for [...]

Continue reading about Open Source Facebook music streaming App for free download!

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