Two days ago I arrived in Erfurt in order to visit the federal competition young scientists (Jugend Forscht). I reported about the project typology by Till Speicher and Paul Wagner which I supervised over the last half year and which already won many awards. Saturday night they have already won a special award donated by …
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Keynote on www2012 by Sir Tim Berners Lee
disclaimer: this is a very sloppy summary of the keynote speech of Sir Tim Berners Lee. It is neither spellchecked it was taking as notes while sitting inside. I hope I find the time after www2012 to go over it and improve it. take aways Decentralized design that is very important. and if you talk …
Reading Club on distributed graph db returns with a new Format on April 4th 2012
The reading club was quite inactive due to traveling and also a not optimal process for the choice of literature. That is why a new format for the reading club has been discussed and agreed upon. The new Format means that we have 4 new rules we will only discuss up to 3 papers in …
PhD proposal on distributed graph data bases
Over the last week we had our off campus meeting with a lot of communication training (very good and fruitful) as well as a special treatment for some PhD students called “massage your diss”. I was one of the lucky students who were able to discuss our research ideas with a post doc and other …
Paul Wagner and Till Speicher won State Competition "Jugend Forscht Hessen" and best Project award using neo4j
6 months of hard coding and supervising by me are over and end with a huge success! After analyzing 80 GB of Google ngrams data Paul and Till put them to a neo4j graph data base in order to make predictions for fast scentence completion. Today was the award ceremony and the two students from …
Related-work.net – Product Requirement Document released!
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 born. A scientific platform which is …
Related work of the Reading club on distributed graph data bases (Beehive, Scalable SPARQL Querying of Large RDF Graphs, memcached)
Today we finally had our reading club and discussed several papers from last week’s asignments. Before I give my usual summary I want to introduce our new infrastructure for the reading club. Go to: http://related-work.rene-pickhardt.de/ There you can find a question and answer system which we will use to discuss questions and answers of papers. …
Wishlist of features for a distributed graph data base technology
I am just dreaming this does not exist and needs to be refined in a later stage. Fast traversals: Jumping from one vertex of the graph to another should be possible in O(1) Online processing: “Standard queries” (<–whatever this means) should compute within miliseconds. As an example: Local recommendations e.g. similar users in a bipartite …
From Graph (batch) processing towards a distributed graph data base
Yesterdays meeting of the reading club was quite nice. We all agreed that the papers where of good quality and we gained some nice insights. The only drawback of the papers was that it did not directly tell us how to achieve our goal for a real time distributed graph data base technology. In the …
Open Access and the Boycott of Elsevier! Let uns not stop here and take the digital revolution one step further!
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/ And you find much more resources …