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May 14, 2010

Update on W3C India Office Opening Event

As mentioned in the previous post, I attended the W3C India Office opening event and a conference on Internationalization and Standardization associated with this event, which was organized by the Technology Development in Indian Language (TDIL) of the Department of Information Technology, GOI on 6th and 7th of May , 2010. While the opening of the India office was an occasion for which several folks from W3C, including the newly appointed CEO Dr. Jeffery Jaffe came to India, the focus of the event was primarily on the standardization and internationalization of the standards pertaining to web, mobile telephony as well as Indian language computing. Details of this conference and event are available at the W3C India site. What follows is a quick review of the two day proceedings of the conference.

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September 2, 2009

Learning from CISTM 2009 - Cloud Computing

As mentioned in an earlier blog on CISTM2009 I would like to talk about some interesting discussions on the topic of Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing. The track was chaired by Dr. Jai Ganesh and I was one of the panelist on this discussion. The third panelist was Prof. Rahul Singh, of the North Carolina University at Greensboro.

The discussion started off by Jai describing our take on the intersection of Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing. He elaborated on one of the basic tenets of Web 2.0 viz Web as a Platform and discussed how this connects with the concept of cloud computing. He highlighted the merging of software as a service (SaaS) and infrastructure as a service (IaaS) leading to computing resources available as and when someone needed them.

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