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Archive for June 2005

SkipDB - a BerkeleyDB style database implemented with skip lists instead of a b-tree

Wednesday, June 29th, 2005

SkipDB - a BerkeleyDB style database implemented with skip lists instead of a b-tree by Steve Dekorte. Transactional. Small. Fast. and under the revised BSD license.

Sync up with June

Sunday, June 12th, 2005

Time to sync up with June

WWW2005 in Tokyo. Fun with the microformats guys. XTech in Amsterdam rocked as I expected - “best conference evah!“. I missed the XHTML2 and HTML5 session as I was chairing a parallel track. Aaron’s learnt a hard lesson or two and swapping coasts. Good luck with the startup. SPARQL Query [...]

Two Towers of Web Semantics

Sunday, June 12th, 2005

Two Towers by Ora Lassilla points out a paper Semantic Web Architecture: Stack or Two Towers? (PDF) by Horrocks, Parsia, Patel-Schneider and Hendler (not clear where it’s published) that reviews the current semantic web architecture state and argues that there is an emerging clash of two stacks of semantics, one DLP-Datalog, Datalog rules stack incompatible with the RDF / OWL / First Order Logic [...]

Transputer, occam and parallel computing archive site

Friday, June 3rd, 2005

My first USENET post to comp.sys.transputer: Transputer, occam and parallel computing archive site, May 12 1993. I love I how I called it DARPA FTP and look at that funky coloured book address format uk.ac.…

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