Pet Shop Boys on Tour

Finally, I decided to go to a pop concert. (Would be my first concert, mind you!) The Pet Shop Boys always were one of my favorite pop groups. Great music, great lyrics … One of their few concerts actually would be not too far away, in Bonn. Great, isn’t it? Thought so, too. Until I had a closer look at the date. I will be in Boston, USA, at that time.It’s sometimes hard to be a (hard blogging) scientist.See tour schedule at the Pet Shop Boys‘ homepage.P.S.: Listen to their newest single at their homepage: „I’m with stupid“.

Content, Users, and Context

As context is one of my main research interests I welcomed this article on Understanding the Market Context. The authors modify The Three Circles of Information Architecture (used by Peter Morville for User Experience Design). The context here is the business marketplace of competing companies/products/services.

via Martin

Digital natives – Die Eingeborenen des Internets

Ein interessanter Artikel über den Wandel der Internetnutzer vom Medienkonsumenten zum Medienproduzenten. Naja. Zumindest hat der Einzelne die Möglichkeit und die Mittel, (sich) selbst zu produzieren. Die Masse wird auch weiterhin (nur) konsumieren. Fazit: lesenswert.

via Martin who read Die Zeit

Escape Pod

Being a science fiction fan–well more of a fan of scifi series such as Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, etc.–and an Apple iPod addict I was glad to be pointed to „The Science Fiction Podcast Magazine“ Escape Pod. Thanks, Mehmet!

Wrapping-up MRC2005 and ExaCt2005

One of the results of my IJCAI workshop MRC2005 is a Springer book with revised, selected papers. It is called „Modeling and Retrieval of Context“. The book will appear soon in the Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence series LNAI.

I also wrapped up the AAAI fall symposium on Explanation-aware Computing ExaCt 2005. Thanks to Michael Richter, a selection of papers is soon published as a special issue of the journal Computing and Informatics.

Becoming a hard bloggin‘ scientist

Well, as you can see I have not adopted the blogging lifestyle yet. I still have to come to terms with it, but over the last half year I learned a lot about blogging and (social) networking on the web, and about its importance. Blogging became a major issue in my direct vicinity, at my work place as well as in the Semantic Web project NEPOMUK – The Social Semantic Desktop.

I am very happy and excited about the cultural initiative DigitalCouch.de hosting the monthly event „The Great Escape“, which provides new perspectives on (digital) life in Kaiserslautern and beyond. Creating a community of Hard Bloggin‘ Scientists was just a logical step, wasn’t it?

Let’s see where my place in this picture is …

[ExaCt 2005] Washington calling

Only a few days are left until my AAAI symposium on Explanation-aware Computing ExaCt 2005 in Washington, D. C., starts. I am very much looking forward to it and to the city of Washington.

AAAI-06-Workshop on Modeling and Retrieval of Context (MRC 2006)

The proposal for the third international workshop on Modeling and Retrieval of Context (MRC 2006) has been accepted as a AAAI-06 workshop: MRC 2006

IJCAI-05-Workshop on Modeling and Retrieval of Context (MRC 2005)

The presentation slides of (most of) the talks are now available as pdf files: Agenda – MRC2005

And so it begins …