Bogdan Crivat

Welcome to my home page.

Contact info: bogdanATbogdancrivatDOTnet (just make the replacements and, hopefully, this will save me from spam)

Bio

A formal curricullum vitae(Rich Text Format) is available here.
I tried to make a summary below:

I was born and grew up in Braila (click for some pictures), eastern part of Romania. I went to school and high-school there (the G.M.Murgoci High School).

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I joined Microsoft in 1999 and worked for 2 years and a half in the ATL Server (details available here) team. In February 2002, I started working in the Data Mining engine development team.

Publications/Articles/Book(s)

• ATL Server: High Performance C++ on .NET
  
  with Pranish Kumar, Jasjit Grewal and Eric Lee, at A!Press
  Published: May 2003
  ISBN: 1-59059-128-3
• SQL Server Data Mining Programmability (2005)
  - in MSDN
  
• Detect Anomalies in Excel Spreadsheets(2004)
  - in ACCESS VB SQL Advisor Magazine
  - co-authoring with Jamie MacLennan
• SQL Server Data Mining: Plug-In Algorithms(2004)
  - at MSDN Library
  - co-authoring with Raman Iyer
• Using ATL Server to Build an Asynchronous SOAP Client in Unmanaged C++ (2002)
  - in MSDN Magazine, the April 2002 issue
  - co-authoring with Pranish Kumar
• SOAP-ing without a web server (2001)
  - at CodeProject
• A data flow diagram based software engineering tool (1997)
  - at the 3rd International Symposium of Economic Informatics of Romania
  - co-authoring with:
  M. Gheorghe, M. Dumitru, C. Vlad- University of Bucharest, Romania,
  P. Ritchie, University of Central Lancashire, U.K.
  

Interests

• Data mining

  Machine learning, applied statistics, does it sound interesting? If not, then maybe this will:
  • Intelligent applications
  • Data Validation without writing code
  • Latest information about the Data Mining in the next release of Microsoft (R) SQL Server
  • Customers who bought this also bought ...
  • RSS feeds, weekly DM tips and tricks
  • Last, but not least, some really cool web samples
  If anything sounds interesting, check SQL Server Data Mining
  
  

• ATL Server

  This is a very nice and performant lightweight library for developing Web applications and services. (About ATL Server...)
  
  

• History of Religions

  I started in Romania, with Mircea Eliade's books (the pre-WW II ones, originally written in Romanian). Best entry point into a fascinating world. If you want to recommend any book in this area (or see a list of recommendations), please go to my BookMark page. If that page is not there yet, please retry in a week or so.

• Karate

  In high-school (that was around 1989) I started taking illegal Shotokan karate lessons in Braila. Illegal because, at that time (Romania was still a communist country) it was politically deeply incorrect to do a lot of things, karate included. My first instructors were Florentin Popescu, Vali Diaconescu and Doru Achim ( NiDan and ShoDans, respectively, around that time)

  After moving to Redmond, WA, starting from 2001, I continued studying Shotokan with Sensei Toshiaki Namiki (8th Dan), in the Redmond Dojo of Japan Shotokan Karate Federation.
  

  In March 2003, I joined the Washington Shotokan Karate where I train now under the guidance of Sensei Andre Dulce (6th Dan).
  (the background is a bit different, but the tiger is pretty much the same :-) ) I managed to get my Shodan in December 2003, and the best is yet to come :-)

• Literature

Now, this is simple. I like to read. Pretty much anything. My hidden ambition is to create this BookMark page where I can go every week or so and see what you, brought here by the mysterious associations made by your browser, recommended.
If you want to recommend any book(or see a list of recommendations), please go to my BookMark page. If that page is not there yet, please retry in a week or so.


• SOAP

As I said above, my previous work area, ATL Server, is "a very nice (...) library for (...) applications and services". It supports Web services by providing a very fast and flexible SOAP support. SOAP is a protocol for encapsulating messages in an XML envelope and pass them methods exposed by remote objects (through HTTP, usually).

Some stuff about SOAP in ATL Server is available here. The SOAP specification is at W3C and many, many results on SOAP can be found by searching on Google

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