Communications of the ACM
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February 2009
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Dynamics of Wikipedia
The WikiDashboard is a system that analyzes the social dynamics of a Wikipedia entry. Good overview article about it in Tech Review. By examining the social dynamics of an entry ... who is editing, how often, etc. you can interpret…
From Putting People First
Jan-Christoph Zoels talk at India
Experientia partner Jan-Christoph Zoels is currently in Ahmedabad, India, for a client project. But he found time for an informal talk at the highly acclaimed National Institute of Design, scheduled for Wednesday 11 February…
From insideHPC
Germany goes
Forschungszentrum Juelich (FZJ) has a press release (in German) announcing that the Gauss Center for Supercomputing (GCS) (a co-orperation between the German national HPC centers - FZJ, HLRS at Stuttgart, LRZ at Garching) will…
From Putting People First
Interview with John Knight, user experience manager at Vodafone
John Knight, user experience manager at Vodafone’s UE Design Development team was interviewed by Giles Colborne of cxpartners. “One of the things I
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robin Wight and the Peacock's Tail
Met Robin Wight, president of the WCRS & Engine Group, at the recent Neurocon 2009. He passes along this fascinating video: An amazing theory called The Peacock's Tail and the reputation reflex: the neuroscience of art sponsorship…
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Make Recovery.Gov Web 2.0 Friendly
All eyes are on one piece of legislation currently being considered by Congress -- The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. This legislation is essentially a massive funding plan intended to help jump start the American economy…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cognitive Computing Project
Cognitive Computing project, seeking to reverse engineer the mind. Quite an ambitious project. See also Dharmendra Mondha's cognitive computing blog. I had thought we did not know all the details to do the engineering required…
From CSDiary
Tony Tether DARPA Directorship to End in February
A quick news flash: Emails are floating around indicating that Tony Tether’s tenure as the Director of DARPA will end this month, with the two week notice on February 20. The text of the message: The Time to Go has Been Settled…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kindle 2
Amazon introduces the Kindle 2. Again, I do not want to drag around another device. Put it on my phone.
From insideHPC
Karlsruhe Selects
HPCWire: SiCortex, today, announced that they have gained the business of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology [KIT] in Germany.
From insideHPC
Lamar University Jumps on the
Lamar University announced today that a group of their faculty have been granted access to the Teragrid.
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
An op-ed by the University of Washington’s Ed Lazowska and Sun Microsystems’ Bob Sproull appears today on the website of Scientists and Engineers for America.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Report from Cracow Neurocon Panel
From the Neuroconnections 2009 meeting. The Neurocon panel in Cracow was run live on the Polish CNBC affiliate on Saturday. The object of the debate was to itemize the hopes and threats from the newly developing technology…
From insideHPC
Sun Grid Engine Update
Sun’s HPC blog has posted a video from the Sun HPC Consortium the weekend before Supercomputing 2008.
From insideHPC
Roshydromet Weather Forecasting on
Russia’s Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring [Roshydromet] have procured a series of SGI machines in order to improve the precision of their weather forecasts.
From insideHPC
Voltaire Announces 40Gb/s Director
Voltaire has announced the latest addition to their Infiniband switching product line.
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Honesty is charisma
Honesty is charisma. Whenever you are honest, even if you are controversial, many people will respond positively to you.
From Putting People First
Dan Ariely on a new type of economy
IdeasProject, an excellent Nokia site, interviewed behavioural economist, MIT Media Lab contributor and best-selling author Dan Ariely. He said that web technologies like remote cameras can enable individuals to bypass traditional…
From insideHPC
HPC seminar in
The HPC Watercooler points to a perfect opportunity to redeem those Sky Miles you’ve been hoarding: head north for HPC in Vancouver Our friends at HPCVL are sponsoring an Executive Round Table seminar on High Productivity Computing…
From insideHPC
Itanium upgrade
From Computerworld earlier this month Intel Corp. on Tuesday said it has delayed the release of the quad-core Tukwila chip, its next-generation 64-bit Itanium processor designed for use in enterprise servers. The chip maker will…
From insideHPC
32nm on track at
Multicoreinfo.com points us to this story at the EE Times Despite recent layoffs and fab closings, Intel Corp. remains on track to deliver its first 32nm processors before the end of the year. The update came as part of a conference…
From insideHPC
The Green Grid launches new datacenter
Last week The Green Grid announced that it is
From insideHPC
HiPC coming to
From HPCwire The 16th annual IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC 2009) will be held in Cochin, India, during Dec. 16-19, 2009. It will serve as a forum to present the current work by researchers…
From insideHPC
Senate: science and computing doing ok so
Peter Harsha at the excellent Policy Blog of the CRA reports on some of the twists on the way to the US Senate’s version of the stimulus bill becoming law. $1.2B of the original $1.4B increase in the NSF’s pot stays, but energy…
From BLOG@CACM
How I Define Systems Engineer
A short talk about the definition of systems engineering in Colombia.
From Putting People First
Why computers can
MIT researchers argue that computers need to become as easy to use as those yellow sticky notes. Office workers are like electricity: When they want to get something done, they follow the path of least resistance. Which is why…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Lets Simulate Everything
These articles give one the impression that general simulation is simple. Microsoft has been pushing the idea of virtual reality worlds. I like the idea but always wond how real such worlds need to be. Photosynth as a starting…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Scent Delivery Kiosks for Women
Face recognition in retail, see also related recent post.Though there has been much improvement in face recognition, they are going to make mistakes. Another example of tailoring a message to a demographic. " ... In France,…
From BLOG@CACM
A Simple View of the Budget Process
An abstract view of how NSF gets its money, in the context of the federal budget process.
From Putting People First
UX Week 2008 videos
Over the last months, Adaptive Path has been uploading videos of their latest UX Week that took place in August 2008. Donald Norman conversing with Adaptive Path president and founder Peter Merholz Author and co-founder of the…