Communications of the ACM
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January 2009
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Finish this sequence of equalities
8809 = 6 7111 = 0 2172 = 0 6666 = 4 1111 = 0 3213 = 0 7662 = 2 9312 = 1 0000 = 4 2222 = 0 3333 = 0 5555 = 0 8193 = 3 8096 = 5 7777 = 0 9999 = 4 7756 = 1 6855 = 3 9881 = 5 5531 = 0 2581 = ? Hint: My wife found it immediately.…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Expands Semantics in Search
I recall doing several searches where I thought the results indicated a fairly complex semantic net was being used on their side. Here is more evidence that they are doing this and have expanded its breadth. Makes sense. Comments…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Frequency of Impulse Purchases
Wharton Prof David R. Bell, in a detailed article, says that there is less general impulse purchasing than we had thought. " ... "The message ... is that the amount of unplanned buying that takes place is more about person-to…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tom Peters on Boomer Markets
Tom Peters comments on the Boomer market and links to some new Forrester work in this area.
From The Eponymous Pickle
CES Overview
Have not been to one of these in years, but worth a look: The Consumer Electronics Show
From insideHPC
User Response: 10GbE Cluster
Yesterday, we posted a summary and link to an article arguing for the general acceptance of 10GbE as a valid cluster interconnect platform.
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
The purpose of peer review
Michael Nielsen has an excellent post today: Three myths about scientific peer review. The myths are:
Scientists have always used peer review: it seems it became widespread only during the second half of the XXth century.…From Wild WebMink
Thursday's Links, January 8th
OpenOffice.org vs. Go-OO: Cutting through the Gordian KnotInteresting and reasonably balanced article on the endless and fruitless debate Novell is generating. I'm not aware that the author sought any input from Sun; I'd be pleased…
From CSDiary
NY Times on the Pittsburgh Economy
I’m about to start the last day of meetings here in Taipei. There have been many interesting research presentations and hallway conversations, as well as ceremonial activities (e.g., a banquet with the Taiwan State Minister last…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Tag Released
It is unfair to compare this to the CueCat, since that fabled failed project attempted to include a unitasking piece of hardware, while these methods do not and work with existing hardware. This is worth looking at. From ReadWriteWweb…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Open Source Victories
Open Source victories of 2008. For those interested in the topic of open source this is interesting. After my leaving the big firm, now that I have to make my own infrastructure choices, this has become more important.
From insideHPC
IBM and ITIF calls on President-elect to pump $30B into
From coverage at The Register In December, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal, Palmisano made a presentation to Carol Browner, the incoming White House coordinator of energy and climate policy, and Julius Genachowski…
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Progress is continuous by nature
In my post We never invent anything new, yet progress is made!, I argued that innovation is incremental and social. I derived two recommendations for innovators: be good at communicating your ideas and be networked. Indeed, while…
From insideHPC
10GbE is Ready for Your Cluster. Or is
Linux Magazine has an article written by Dan Tuchler detailing why he thinks 10-gigabit Ethernet should be a more widely considered for vanilla HPC cluster installations.
From insideHPC
200 TFLOPS Chinese super expected in
According to Chinese news agency Xinhua, the home grown Dawning 5000A is expected to be installed in April of this year. The supercomputer, with a peak capability of more than 200 trillion FLOPS (Floating-point operations per…
From insideHPC
Survey finds banks plan to increase HPC spend in
IT analysis firm Waters published results from a survey earlier this week detailing the 2009 spend plans by banks for HPC. The survey was conducted by Platform Computing at the City#Grid exhibition in London last month. Platform’s…
From insideHPC
Many-Core and Reconfigurable Supercomputing Conference 2009,
The Many-Core and Reconfigurable Supercomputing Conference (MRSC) has evolved over the last few years to become the primary European conference addressing the use of accelerators in HPC (with a special focus on FPGA’s and many…
From The Eponymous Pickle
CYC is Posting Snippets of Knowledge
I see that the CYC company is now twittering. CYC was started in 1984 by Douglas Lenat. Their site has some demos. Have followed its progress since then and even visited them in Austin several times to see what value theyin…
From The Eponymous Pickle
R Computing for Data Mining
The NYTimes has an overview article on the open source R Computing Language. Emphasizing its use for data mining applications. Not a bad article, but they start out implying that it is meant to be a general purpose language,…
From CSDiary
Marcel Just and Tom Mitchell Appear on CBS 60 Minutes
Last Sunday I wrote about the computational neuroscience work by Marcel Just and Tom Mitchell. Well, the CBS 60 Minutes feature was really quite interesting. In the segment, one of the staff members for the 60 Minutes crew was…
From CSDiary
Gigapan Story is #1 on Times of London in 2008
This news has been on the SCS web page for about a week already, but still worth a mention here: Last year the online edition of the Times of London did a story on the Gigapan camera system, developed by Illah Nourbakhsh and…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Search Engine Optimization Blogs
eCairn has published a list of the top 150 blogs that cover Search Engine optimization and Search Engine Marketing (SEO/SEM).
From The Eponymous Pickle
Targeting Shoppers with Loyalty Data
Short NYT article that shows how dunnhumby uses loyalty data to target consumers for retail clients. After many years of using loyalty data, retailers are finally able to effectively use the idea to engage the consumer.
From insideHPC
Sun adds Belgian Q-layer to its cloud
From Sun today Sun Microsystems, Inc…today announced it has acquired Q-layer, a cloud computing company that automates the deployment and management of both public and private clouds. The Q-layer organization, based in Belgium…
From insideHPC
Financial Engineering Summit next
Today is becoming “event day” here at insideHPC. I had an email earlier this week about an upcoming computational finance event in New York hosted by NVIDIA and the NYU Courant School of Mathematics. Here are some quick details…
From insideHPC
ISC
From HPCwire ISC’09, the 24th meeting of the International Supercomputing Conference, is seeking papers from researchers in computing and scientific disciplines reporting original work in theoretical, experimental and industrial…
From insideHPC
Indian Prime Minister pledging to double investment in
Pointed to by the Computing Research Policy TumbleLog, an article in the ??Business Standard with comments from Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh comments at the Indian Science Congress in Shillong on January 3 Science education…
From insideHPC
Upcoming Red Hat HPC stack webinar Jan
Red Hat’s twitter account posted a comment recently about an upcoming webinar on the HPC stack. From the webinar page Do you need the power of high-performance computing clusters, but lack the internal IT resources, time, and…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Huberman on Twitter
Bernardo A. Huberman an HP researcher, who we met in the late 90s when he was doing analysis of the growth of the web, has a new paper out Twitter: Social Networks that Matter: Twitter under the microscope. Have not read yet…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Examining Pay-per-Post
Pay per post is the method by which bloggers, especially those with large readership are paid in influence, money or goods, to blog about a particular product or service. It can be something as simple as a free book to review…