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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
NITRD Bill Amended to Increase Emphasis on Computer Science Education
Today the House passed by voice vote H.R. 2020, which is a bill to amend the High Performance Computing Act. Part of this law establishes the National Information...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hubble Tech Live
Bit out of the normal realm of my posts, but my astrophysics background makes it a requirement, have followed Hubble space telescope for many years. Followable....
From Putting People First
Us Now
Watch this excellent 1 hour documentary film about the power of mass collaboration, government and the internet. “In his student flat in Colchester, Jack Howe is...
From Putting People First
Everybody
Further on my earlier theme of “we are all hackers now“, here is a long feature on user-generated devices by Fumitada Takahashi and Phil Keys in the Nikkei Electronics...
From insideHPC
Fujitsu Claims Development of World
Fujitsu has claimed that is has developed the world’s fastest processor.
From insideHPC
Panasas announces research-focused storage
Yesterday storage vendor Panasas announced a new pricing lineup on storage products aimed at university research organizations The new Panasas Research Solutions...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-05-13
MPs' expenses: Gordon Brown backs plan for all claims to be published online Good move. I hope we don't have to have a blow-upUK...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Storefrontbacktalk Launches Research Site
StorefrontBacktalk has launched a retail technology research site called: StorefrontBackgroundHave always enjoyed Evan Schuman's blog on retail topics, and have...
From insideHPC
Super Micro Announces GPU
Super Micro has announced a new line of GPU server systems.
From insideHPC
Cray Eyeing New HQ in St.
According to the Minneapolis-St. Paul Tribune, Cray might be on their way to moving the corporate headquarters to downtown St. Paul.
From insideHPC
Intel puts $12M in new visual computing research
Intel announced yesterday that it will invest $12M US in a new computing research center in Europe Intel Corporation is investing $12 million to create a new research...
From insideHPC
SiCortex used in designs for more energy efficient
HPC vendor SiCortex is talking about one of their customers, researchers and faculty at the Royal Military College of Canada, who are using their gear to design...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Netezza and the NYSE Superfast Network
You may have noticed I have been exploring Netezza of late, the data warehousing appliance innovator. Here is an interesting case study that includes them:Case...
From The Noisy Channel
Is Google Diving Head First Into HCIR?
I’ve been at the Enterprise Search Summit all day, so I didn’t have the chance to pore through the buzz about Google’s Searchology announcements. But I did see...
From The Noisy Channel
Is Google Diving Head First Into HCIR?
I’ve been at the Enterprise Search Summit all day, so I didn’t have the chance to pore through the buzz about Google’s Searchology announcements. But I did see...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IEEE Computer Society Home Page
I mentioned that the CACM has a launched a new home page, to which I am contributing. I see that the IEEE Computer Society now also has a new main page. Has aIEEE's...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
ACM Co-Sponsors Hill Briefing on Education
On May 20th, ACM will co-sponsor a briefing on Capitol Hill with the House STEM Education Caucus and the Congressional Black Caucus. The event, "Bringing Innovative...
From Putting People First
The moral bankruptcy of Current TV - a personal comment
Until recently, I liked Current TV and its Vanguard journalism group very much. The reporting from such cities as Lagos, Nigeria was superb. I liked their mixture...
From Computer Science Teachers Association