3rd International Workshop on Multimedia Data and Document Engineering (MDDE-2003) www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/info/recherche/sic/djeraba/mdde03/mdde-2003.html September 8th, 2003, Berlin, Germany, Ê in conjunction with Ê 29th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB-2003) http://www.vldb.informatik.hu-berlin.de/ Ê OBJECTIVES

Call For Papers Workshop on Semantic Integration at ISWC'2003 http://smi.stanford.edu/si2003 Monday, October 20, 2003 Sundial Resort, Sanibel Island, Florida, USA In numerous distributed environments, including today's World-Wide Web, organizational intranets, and the emerging Semantic Web, the applications will inevitably use the information described by multiple ontologies and schemas. Interoperability among applications depends critically on the […]

O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference. The Etech conference put on by O'Reilly is coming up near the end of April and I'm already getting excited for it. Last year's was the best conference I've ever been to. In contrast to many conferences I've attended, the panels and presentations were just as valuable as the hallway conversations […]

Menu Tabs in CSS. How he does it (Offerings of fruit and flowers in Mark's general direction)… [BookBlog] should use this

Northwestern University is putting the first compl …. Northwestern University is putting the first complete English translation of Vesalius' 1543 anatomy of the human body, De Humani Corporis Fabrica, online free of charge. For details, see the site or the press release. [FOS News] hmm, interesting. more people should have education in the classics, as […]

In 1995 Bill Clinton issued an executive order rul …. In 1995 Bill Clinton issued an executive order ruling that once information was declassified and released to the public, it could not be reclassified later. Two days ago George Bush issued an executive order rescinding the Clinton order and at the same time classifying some […]

Halliburton Contract. Halliburton Handed No-Bid Iraqi Oil Firefighting Contract You still believe this war is about nothing more then WMD's? I wonder how many other of Bush and Cheney's friends are benefiting from this war? The US government didn't even bother to give other companies a chance to bid for this contract. While on the […]

How and why your black pint of Guinness is crowned with a head of white bubbles… [[ t e c h n o c u l t u r e ]] yes, you've always wondered this, you know you have.

While I don't support the policy of this war, I always support the soldiers, so send this around and send some people some books

Architecting the Future: Dr. Marc Tremblay. 25 Mar 2003: Ace's Hardware as a detailed interview with Dr. Marc Tremblay, a Distinguished Engineer at Sun. Dr. Tremblay was the co-architect of Sun's first 64-bit processor, the UltraSPARC-I and served as chief architect for the UltraSPARC-II and the dual-core MAJC project. Currently, he is working on a […]