Do you read French? Care to help me with a translation problem? Google sure didn’t, although the results are somewhat funny.
Makice is a made up name. Amy and I scrambled our initials — A E C K M I — and picked the one that made the most sense to us. When egosurfing, it is [...]
Le Makice
SQLyog is Open Source
This just showed up in my In-box … “SQLyog is now Open-Source!”
Rohit Nadhani, the founder of Webyog, was recently interviewed by Jay Pipes at MySQL.com on August 23. Rohit said of the switch to open source:
We have been considering opening the source for the Free edition for quite a while. The decision was taken shortly [...]
ChaCha - Human-Human computer-mediated search
This came over the School of Informatics wire this morning: An informatics professor has created a search engine faciliated by human beings.
According to the press release, ChaCha is “the first search engine to instantly connect users with people to produce relevant results.” Co-founded by Scott Jones — an inventor of a voicemail system used [...]
Teague makes case for sports informatics
When Jeff Teague selected another school over Indiana in his search for a hoops program, he also made a case for Sports Informatics to be a strong part of the Athletics Department.
Of course, sports informatics is still in need of definition (and a formal program at the School of Informatics). That part is coming. [...]