Monthly Archives: June 2007

Collaborative Organic Synthesis (a subversive proposal)

Posted on June 30, 2007 by pm286

Every months we get several new chemistry blogs – I don’t have time to do more than glance at them but I was struck by a newcomer, TotallyRetrosynthetic. (TotallyFoo is a metasyntactic linguistic style sparked off by TotallySynthetic.) Retrosynthesis is … Continue reading →

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Stochastic hyperslide at MKM2007

Posted on June 29, 2007 by pm286

I have just given my presentation at Mathematical Knowledge Management 2007 for which I wrote an abstract about 2-3 months ago : Mathematics and scientific markup. I knew that in the intervevning time I would find something new to get … Continue reading →

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A snapshot of the chemical blogosphere

Posted on June 28, 2007 by pm286

I want to show the mathematicians the vibrancy and value of the chemical blogosphere so – at random – I picked today’s TotallySynthetic. By chance it’s very fitting as it is a review of a paper by one of the … Continue reading →

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Synergy between "MKM"-math and "CML"

Posted on June 28, 2007 by pm286

In this post I am using the context of the Mathematical Knowledge Management 2007 conference to try to construct similarities in the MathML and CML communities and their thought processes. I’ll show this list in my presentation tomorrow – I … Continue reading →

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The Handbook of Integer Sequences

Posted on June 28, 2007 by pm286

I am at the Mathematical Knowledge Management 2007 and having a wonderful time. At present Neil Sloane is talking about his marvellous On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences a collection of every known (and voluntarily communicated) sequence. e.g. what is next … Continue reading →

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OpenMath/MathML, CML and communities of practice

Posted on June 28, 2007 by pm286

James Davenport – one of the originators of OpenMath is presenting the current status. (OpenMath and MathML are converging and although they are distinct I shall confalte them here). What is the formal semantics? OM has 4 flags: official experimental … Continue reading →

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Towards Mechanized Mathematical Assistants (and the Scientist's Amanuensis)

Posted on June 28, 2007 by pm286

I’m now at MKM2007 whose book[1] has the splendid title: Towards Mechanized Mathematical Assistants the vision that computers can work together with humans to enhance the the understanding of both parties. This vision has much in common with our own … Continue reading →

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HHMI – green or gold? And the data?

Posted on June 27, 2007 by pm286

Peter Suber has highlighted a new policy by HHMI and given a careful critique of what “Open” may or may not mean. It’s a good illustration of the fuzzy language that is often used to describe “Open”.  See: HHMI mandates … Continue reading →

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What we do at UCC – job opportunity in Polymer Informatics

Posted on June 26, 2007 by pm286

I don’t normally say very much in this blog about what our day jobs are; now is a useful time to do so. The Centre is sponsored by Unilever PLC – the multinational company with many brands in foods and … Continue reading →

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Top-down or bottom-up ontologies?

Posted on June 24, 2007 by pm286

I am working out some of the ideas I want to talk about at Mathematical Knowledge Management 2007 – and in this post I explore how a knowledge framework might be constructed, and also how it can be represented in … Continue reading →

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