TIR/DEXA 2010, Bilbao and the Guggenheim museum

At the end of August I spend a week in Bilbao, sponsored by the MyMedia project in which I worked when I was still at my old employer Novay, thanks to Christian Wartena, my co-author and driving force behind the papers I presented. You can skip down if you just want to read about Bilbao and the Guggenheim, but I was there for the TIR 2010 workshop on text based information retrieval. The workshop was part of DEXA2010, itself part of a group of related conferences (DAWAK/ EC-web/ TrustBus/Globe/EGOVIS/ITBAM...) going on simultaneously and held at the Deusto University Bilbao. In practice, this just meant that that there were many different simultaneous tracks to choose from. Some of the most interesting talks were in fact in tracks of conferences going to as a whole. The general theme is databases, expert systems, data management, E-commerce and data manipulation but it has branched out considerably to the point where recommender systems, semantic web, bio informatics and Grid/Cloud computing have become important subjects. 

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