Today I am participating in a workshop organized by Matt Germonprez. The title of my presentation is:
On the provenance of Free and Open Source Software and the legal implications of its reuse
It is mostly based on this paper A Method for Open Source License Compliance of Java Applications, IEEE Software May-June 2012 (vol. 29 no. 3) (email me if you can't get a copy).
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Mobile internet is expensive in Canada. In fact, mobile telephone services are very expensive in Canada.
I do enjoy having a smart phone with Internet access, but I dislike paying for the phone part. What I want is to pay only for data.
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This is the list of all awardees in Computer Science in the Computer Science Group since 2010 plus the awards in 2009 under the old classification.
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Once in a while I feel a bit tired of the places where I eat lunch, then I have the urge to try new ones (and the ones I haven't visited for sometime).
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Many photographers have influenced my work, but few like Vincent Laforet. I love his aerial photographs of New York from the first moment I saw them, and when I saw his photo of the US Open I decided I wanted to learn how to do it.
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I was looking for a function that recursively scanned directories, and could not find one. So I wrote my own. Maybe somebody else will find it useful.
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The results of the NSERC Discovery Grants for 2013 have been published.
The full list of results can be found here. As it is becoming a tradition (results of 2011, 2012), here is my analysis of this year's results.
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The last few years I have found less and less interesting movies to watch. Maybe I am just getting old ;)
One simple, but effective way I have used in the past to determine if a movie is worth watching is to use its IMDB rating. Except for few comedies (e.g. Monty Python) I have always enjoyed any movie in the IMDB TOP 250.
But what is a good ranking? Let us try to answer that question…
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One of the problems of automatic license matching is that some open source licenses are expected to be modified every time they are used. For example, the BSD3 license is expected to have several sections replaced by the one that uses it, such as its copyright holder and year of copyright:
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I am in a workshop intended to try to improve our teaching in our department.
Students participating mention that it would be valuable to have our student evaluations posted. I have been thinking about doing it for some time… so here they are:
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