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I love the ads and the PC guy.

http://www.apple.com/getamac/ads/

My recommendation is "PR Lady"

Wikipedia and AI

An impressive international workshop about Wikipedia will be held conjunction with AAAI.

http://www.aaai.org/Workshops/ws08.php

I think AAAI comunity already realized the importance of Wikipedia in AI research area. In fact, totally three papers on Wikipedia analysis are accepted in the conference last year.

iPhone from Microsoft

Steve Jobs praised the innovative mobile phone.

IEEE Symposium on MAW in Okinawa

Totally 3 research papers about Web semantics are accepted in IEEE symposium on MAW (Mining and Web 2008) held in Okinawa. First one is about Wikipedia Thesaurus Japanese version. Second one is about Wikipedia Ontology related research. Last one is about semantic web resource categorization.

Paris to Nancy

4 PM: Arrived to Charles-de-Gaulle airport. In a train to Paris, I met very kind couple from Moscow and enjoyed conversation with them. They told me how to go to Champs-Elysees.
5 PM: Arrived to Parris.
6 PM: Arrived to an edge of Champs-Elysees. I was heading to Arc de triomphe. Charles-de-Gaulle is quite long, more than I thought.
7 PM: Arrived to the arc. I coincidentally met Dr. Nakamura, Kyoto university. Small world, huh?
8:30 PM: Arrived to the station for Nancy.
9 PM: Leaving Paris to go to Nancy by TGV Est.
10:30 PM: Arrived to Nancy. It was raining but I had to wait 30 min. to get taxi outside. Cold.
11 PM: Arrived to the Hotel. Phew, tired.

DASFAA 2008 in India

Our new research paper on Wikipedia Mining is accepted as a full paper for DASFAA 2008, one of the A rank conferences in DB research area. It was quite competitive. I heard that the acceptance rate was less than 20% and approximately 1/6 papers are accepted as full papers. Phew.

Wikipedia Thesaurus Japanese support

We are proud to announce the release of Japanese version of Wikipedia thesaurus.

http://wikipedia-lab.org:8080/WikipediaThesaurusV2/

The result is quite interesting.
Try it and have fun.