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{ Monthly Archives } October 2005

Glitches

We just discovered a glitch on the XML 2005 conference web site that meant that submissions for the Posters and Artwork were lost; please resubmit (we found the problem). Sorry for the inconvenience!

Final Schedule for XML 2005

The final schedule is up on the XML 2005 web site and I think it’s the best yet (maybe I say that every year, but there are some really good talks on the program this year). We have big companies talking about what they’re doing, small companies talking about new technologies, and independent people talking [...]

Speaking at Conferences

Shelley’s posting Maids, Mommies, and Mistresses made me decide to throw in my own few cents on what makes a good conference submission, and how talks are accepted, to add to what Kathy Sierra and Adam Trachtenburg said (and there are good points in both). I’ve chaired a conference since 2001, organized tracks, and been [...]

End of an Era

Now that the XML Catalog specification has been approved as an OASIS Standard, it feels like the end of an era to me. I’ve been chairing the Entity Resolution Technical Committee since its inception way back in October 2000 , working with a good group of people. As Norm put it today, we’d be happy [...]