Contents:

* Interviewing a 2.0 person

The Web 2.0 idea is a XXIth century product. During this first decade
of our century, our world has developed as never before into
communities, collaborative working environments and shared spaces. Blogs
are becoming a powerful way of communication. Ramon Costa, an Associate
Professor of the Software Department LSI at the Technical University of
Catalonia (UPC) and experienced blogger is well known for his 2.0
personality. He tells us what is the meaning of this new way of looking
at the world and he shows us many examples of it.

* Green Smart Clouds

The Relational Algorithms, Complexity and Learning Laboratory Research
group (LARCA) from the Software Department LSI at the UPC had a meeting
at Citilab in order to put their research in common. During these
sessions we met Ricard Gavaldà, the new LARCA’s coordinator, and get to
know about his own research. Ricard Gavaldà and Jordi Torres from the
Computer Architecture Department (AC) at UPC are working on faster and
greener computing.

* On the way to unification

Albert Atserias is a professor at the Software Department of the
Technical University of Catalonia. He got his PhD both in California and
Catalonia (UPC). His main research topics are computational complexity,
mathematical logics and combinatorics. His dream is to find the path
towards the unification of currently unconnected computational theories.
As physicists and mathematicians in their fields also computer
scientists go after the Holy Grail of unification.

* Learning artificially from real experience

The PhD student Fernando Orduña from the Software Department LSI joined
us for a conversation shared with his PhD advisor and head of the
Knowledge Engineering and Machine Learning Research Group (KEMLG),
Miquel Sanchez. They explained us what Case-Based Reasoning is and how
they get a machine to learn from experience, which is one of Fernando’s
research goals. Also they told us how these developments can be applied
to industry.

* Upcoming PhD Thesis

* Visitors

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