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Patent Awarded for Speech-Enabled Interactive Translation System |
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By barton on
12/28/2009
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I am proud to announce that a patent has been awarded for my work on the development of a novel interactive translation system for Berkeley-based startup Spoken Translation, Inc. It was a great pleasure to work on this system and quite rewarding to see that this work has now been formalized in this fashion.
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Software I am excited about |
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By barton on
6/1/2009
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Microsoft recently released for download beta 1 of Visual
Studio Team System 2010 and .NET
4.0. There are many new features and lots of improvements,
and I have only just started to explore. Many of the capabilities,
however useful, are not usable since this is a beta product and will
not be RTM for several months. However, there are a couple of gems I've
already uncovered that are available for Visual Studio 2008 - so you
don't have to wait to use them.
The first is PEX.
It is smart analyzer for your methods that generates parameters and will generate unit tests for your code based on that analysis. This tool will really help developers write more useful unit tests quickly.
The seco ...
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Speaking at Webinale in Berlin on May 27th - Bringing Web 2.0 Inside: Dynamic Capabilities multiplied |
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By barton on
5/10/2009
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I am very happy to announce that I have been invited to speak at Webinale, the holistic web conference exploring aspects of business, design, and development for the future of the web in Berlin on May 27th.
This conference is the perfect venue to speak about my most recent research work that addresses the question of the relationship between web 2.0 technologies and the development of dynamic capabilities in the organization.
For some time now, I have been researching the convergence of a number of disciplines on to a central topic of emergence. For example, despite being in very different disciplines, Henry Mintzberg,
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Where We Are Headed |
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By barton on
12/7/2008
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I have been thinking a lot recently about some of the phenomena that
are described and associated with Web 2.0 technologies and the economic
forces behind them. In her book “Web
2.0: A Strategy Guide”, Amy Shuen does a great job surveying
various features and capabilities found in Web 2.0 companies as well as
explaining how these are driven from an economic perspective, sometimes
in ways that are essentially redefining economics, or at least
permanently changing the landscape.
For example, she discusses how financial analysts calculate the value
of Web 2.0 companies using different kinds of metrics than than non-Web
2.0 companies. She explains that financial valuations of Web 2.0
companies are no longer calculated based on earnings multiples but on
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Rethinking Ourselves |
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By barton on
11/23/2008
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This interesting
overview from Dr. Michael Wesch, a digital ethnographer at
Kansas State University, presents some of the fundamental forces at
play in "Web 2.0" technologies. In addition to explaining the
technology, this video makes the crucial observation that people, not
technology, are the drivers, enabled by the technology (see Engelbart).
Wesch concludes his video by reminding us that Web 2.0 is causing us
(among other things) to rethink copyright, authorship, identity,
ethics, aesthetics, rhetorics, governance, privacy, commerce, love,
family, and ourselves. Thanks to Amy Shuen in her book "Web
2.0: A Strategy Guide" for this helpful reference.
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Luminous Group and Microsoft's BizSpark |
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By barton on
11/8/2008
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We're very excited to have been asked to be part of Microsoft's BizSpark
program for startups, making it easier than ever for privately-held
software development startups in business for less than 3 years and
have less than US $1 million in revenues to obtain full access to
Microsoft tools and technologies such as Team
Foundation Server and SharePoint.
We've known for some time that while these products help teams work
better, they are often cost-prohibitive, especially for startups who
are just starting out.
That's why we are so excited about BizSpark.
As a network partner, Luminous Group are able to sponsor young startups
for this program and give them ful ...
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