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Mozilla innovations

Posted on by Thibauld

Mozilla has publicized a  lot of fun projects recently, the most recent being Mozilla Bespin.

It’s nice too see so much efforts put into innovation, especially since it’s based on open standards and open source software. It also makes the browser and the web itself more and more interesting which is a good reason for big web companies to support them (like Google’s funding1 ). Anyway with so much openness also in the research projects, it must be fun to be a developper at Mozilla Labs.

On a side note, with the prospect of integrating Ubiquity into Bespin IDE , I guess I’ve been right to set Ubiquity’s keybinding to Alt+x (aka M-x) right from the begining :D

  1. and also Microsoft’s cooking ;) [↩]

They call me “geometric algebra”

Posted on by Thibauld

According to the Springer GTM test I’m algebraic geometry. TO be honest that’s a pretty good guess for such a short test.

If I were a Springer-Verlag Graduate Text in Mathematics, I would be Robin Hartshorne’s Algebraic Geometry.

My creator studied algebraic geometry with Oscar Zariski and David Mumford at Harvard, and with J.-P. Serre and A. Grothendieck in Paris. After receiving his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1963, he became a Junior Fellow at Harvard, then taught there for several years. In 1972 he moved to California where he is now Professor at the University of California at Berkeley. My siblings include “Residues and Duality” (1966), “Foundations of Projective Geometry (1968), “Ample Subvarieties of Algebraic Varieties” (1970), and numerous research titles. My creator’s current research interest is the geometry of projective varieties and vector bundles. He has been a visiting professor at the College de France and at Kyoto University, where he gave lectures in French and in Japanese, respectively.

My creator is married to Edie Churchill, educator and psychotherapist, and has two human sons and one daughter. He has travelled widely, speaks several foreign languages, and is an experienced mountain climber. He is also an accomplished musician, playing flute, piano, and traditional Japanese music on the shakuhachi.

Which Springer GTM would you be? The Springer GTM Test

Via this blog.