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Very exciting news - an article co-authored by Barry Lawrence of BSTGlobal and myself based on a system now in production at Matrix has just been published in the Microsoft Architecture Journal.

The article is on the subject of Enterprise Identity Synchronization and describes a synchronization pattern and associate system architecture for keeping enterprise identity data up to date between disparate systems. In effect - it is a system for replicating identity memes around an organization.

This has proven to be a fascinating project from a number of standpoints, and I have learned a great deal from the experience of being involved in designing and building a services oriented workflow architecture. The implementation of the system has also been very fascinating, and is a real case study in how systems, people and processes are inherently intertwined. I will write a number of blog posts on the outcome of this project over the next few weeks.

Had a great time, great conversations.

Here are some initial thoughts from one of them:

Meme Emergence:

'meme catcher of future memes' - there is a re-emergence of interest in the school of thought in the evolutionary biology space called 'Evo Devo' (evolutionary developmental biology). This investigates the idea that evolution may alter developmental processes and build new and novel structures from old gene networks based in reaction to environmental pressures.

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One of the difficulties with open source software is knowing which offering to select out of the multitude of open source alternatives that are out there.

There are excellent quality systems available - but it is not always clear which might be the best fit for a given case. One of the big problems in choosing a system is the whole process of having to build up a linux box with the appropriate packages in order to run a particular engine to test.

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I had identified Bayesian technique as a possible approach for a meme based search engine some years back, but realized that single word tokens were insufficient to form the basis for the types of comparisons I was looking to do.  (More)

Sure the new SQL server and .net versions are a big deal: but bigger ones to me are the increasing focus/shift to XML. Finally - microsoft office documents will be stored in XML with office 12. This is huge. The move essentially turns  (More)

The ADIOS project has succeeded in completing an algorithm that can distill structure from text...

http://adios.tau.ac.il/

This coupled with the move to XML office documents and the recent article in the economist regarding the death of folders is exactly what I have been longing to pursue.

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This is pretty interesting: very similar to what I have in mind in some ways - system for dynamically tagging and returning information based on building tagged lists of data: http://ccmixter.org/tags/

This one is specific to music, but I like their approach.

http://www.trnmag.com/Stories/2004/072804/Summarizer_gets_the_idea_072804.html

Paper on Probability analysis of content based on the hidden Markov model

http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/llee/papers.html

http://www.cs.cornell.edu/home/llee/papers/textstruct.pdf