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Last night I attended a Demo Ignite Camp hosted by Microsoft as part of their techdays conference, organized by Boris Mann of Bootup Labs, and headlined by Joey de Villa (Developer Evangelist at Microsoft in Toronto).

Joey initiated the event with the following video which I insist that you watch immediately.

For the (non-obvious) explanations of why this video was the perfect start to the session, see his article about joining Microsoft and the blog post about the video that inspired him to do so.

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Strange reality of academic workspace

My sister forward this job posting to me.

We are looking for a researcher or consultant to participate in the
collaborative development of Neural ElectroMagnetic Ontologies (NEMO). This
NIH-sponsored position would involve developing ontologies for
representation of patterns in event-related brain potentials (ERP) data
that reflect various aspects of language processing.

The Associate would work with members of our International NEMO Consortium
(experts in EEG and MEG studies of language) to develop, manage, and curate
ontology and database structures for this project. Please see the website
for more information, and contact Gwen Frishkoff if you have any questions.

The ideal candidate would have a background in cognitive neuroscience,
experience with database design and curation, and/or familiarity with
Protege/OWL ontology development software...

Sounds like an interesting job that matches my background pretty well, but read on..

Salary will be commensurate with experience in the range of $30-$40K per year.

Perhaps I'm just greedy...