AgLRs in Budapest

Last week, IE members Alberto Abián, Elena Mena and Raquel Rebollo were attending to the Technical Course on Federation of Learning Repositories for Agriculture, Food & Environment (AgLRs) which took place at FAO Sub-regional Office for Central and Eastern Europe (SEUR) in Budapest.

The main task for the IE members in this course was to learn about spcecific architectures to interconnect Learning Repositories and to expain the technology behind the Organic.Edunet Web Portal.

Alberto, Raquel and Elena in cold Budapest - Nov.2009

 

Master Module “Data Mining Algorithms and Information Retrieval” @ Reading University

The week starting on 19th May, Daniel Rodríguez is going to cover “Algorithms for Data Mining and Information Retrieval” at Reading University. This module is done twice a year and in the past we have also taugh “Object-Oriented Analysis and Design” and “Introduction to Web Services”. We are also trying to expand our collaboration with research proposals and other academic collaborations.

Reading University has one of the nicest campus in England, including its Harris Garden. Below, a picture of the Computer Science Department.

Below, Daniel visiting the supercomputer with Ashish Thandavan. It is at the 85th position with 20051GFlops (http://www.top500.org) and a bit further down in the list of the top green computers (with 239.55kW).

 

End of the course in San Luis

Well. Everything comes to an end, and this course in San Luis, Argentina, wasn’t meant to be an exception. One of the things I enjoyed the most has been the hospitality and nice work atmosphere that the team lead by Marcela Chiarani has. They are all close friends, an this you notice only minutes after you start working with them.

So, after a very hard work week, teaching 3 hours per day and trying to cope with the rest of my comitments as well, I have to say that the trip was very interesting an productive indeed. Below these lines, a snapshot taken in the lab room just after the last class of the course.

From left to right: Mercedes, Irma, Hugo, Berta, Vanesa, Paola, Marcela, Soledad, “El negro” and Salvador.

 

Over Los Andes

IE member Salvador Sanchez-Alonso will be this week in the university of San Luis (Argentina) teaching a course on learning technologies and doing some research work. The trip from Spain is indeed very long: 13.5 hours from Madrid to Santiago de Chile. 6 hours waiting in Santiago for the flight to Mendoza to depart to the angentinian capital city of wine. From there, an omnibus to San Luis which takes nearly 4 hours to get to San Luis and that’s it.

This is a very beautiful country, and even though the city of San Luis is not particularly attractive from a touristic perspective, for those in love with south america (I am for sure one of them) it is a nice opportunity to taste the lively atmosphere of the city and to take lots and lots of snapshots of the city, its cars and its people.

This one in particular was taken while flying over Los Andes, from Santiago de Chile to Mendoza. Enjoy.