Friday, August 17th

Off for 2 weeks


I got back home late last night after a whole day's meeting with my colleagues at BT. The meeting went well. We saw a number of demos of BT's work on ESB's which were really impressive. It makes such a difference seeing a particular technology being applied in a real industrial setting.

BEinGRID was also brought to my intention. The project brings together academics that have developed GRID infrastructures and invites them to apply them in the real world. It is a way of showcasing certain pieces of Grid middleware or rather exposing Grid success stories such as the GOLD project to a wider audience. Shame the GOLD project did not take advantage of this opportunity. I am keeping an eye on the project though.

I am flying to Greece tonight and to Syros tommorow evening. More soon..



panos on 08.17.07 @ 04:08 PM gmt [link]

Monday, August 13th

Weekend


I spent the weekend in Bastille/Paris with friends. I sampled a few french restaurants and bars and then visited the Rodin museum on the Sunday. Took an early morning flight back to NCL today. My name day is coming up on Wednesday and i have not made any plans yet, since it is likely i will be travelling. I 'm spending most of today catching up with emails and preparing some slides for my visit to British Telecom on Thursday to defend the grant of my ph.d. student. As I blogged earlier Im off at the end of the week.

panos on 08.13.07 @ 01:12 PM gmt [link]

Wednesday, August 8th

Gibson's new book


Spook Country came out couple of days ago and i just myself a hardcopy. I will post my personal review here.

panos on 08.08.07 @ 11:26 AM gmt [link]


Holidays


I finally managed to take my mind off work and book my flight to Greece. I am travelling on the 17th of August and returning in time for the AHM2007 conference. I am spending a few days on the island of Siros and then I will be visiting family and friends. I look forward to Autumn as there are several big events to look out for namely, the OGF in Seattle, the Supercomputing conference at Reno-Nevada and the middlware conference in Los Angeles in which i am hoping to be able to present my recent work on Access contol. I haven't been updating the blog on personal news mostly because i hardly had any I'd be willing to share.

i will write again soon.


panos on 08.08.07 @ 11:25 AM gmt [link]

Monday, August 6th

SecPAL further progress


The following screen dump shows the "CanActAs" Scenario implemented with the JAVA API. I am closing in on the release date of the API which should be available before the AHM2007 Grid meeting in Nottingham. The top 3 screen show the Policy being transform into a datalog script. While the bottom screen shows a request going through the same stages. The bottom 2 text boxes show how the request/fact was evaluated against the script, before and after the constraints were considered.












































More Soon.


panos on 08.06.07 @ 04:12 PM gmt [link]