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Neuroscience  of Illusion
From The Eponymous Pickle

Neuroscience of Illusion

Teller on the Neuroscience of illusion in Wired. There is something to learn here for the merchandising arts. " .. exploiting gaps in human perception ... " . Via...

Super Micro rack mounts
From insideHPC

Super Micro rack mounts

From an article at The Register, news that Super Micro has a new breed of rack mounted server This doesn’t mean that low-powered Atom and similar processors - like...

German Met installs NEC vector
From insideHPC

German Met installs NEC vector

From news at HPCwire One such national weather service is the German Meteorological Service, called Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD), based in Offenbach, Germany. Here...

Flywheel UPS business grows, best practices
From insideHPC

Flywheel UPS business grows, best practices

Enterprise IT Planet has posted their green news roundup. Here are a few items of interest to our community: Active Power, makers of flywheel-based UPS for green...

The wisdom of community
From Putting People First

The wisdom of community

In an article on A List Apart, Derek Powazek explores what it means to connect the ideas of James Surowiecki, expressed in his book The Wisdom of Crowds, to the...

First winner announced today, still time to jump in the drawing for this week
From insideHPC

First winner announced today, still time to jump in the drawing for this week

I’ll be spinning the big wheel here at insideHPC HQ (I’ve always wanted to use that thing) to find out who the first week’s winner is in our Bribery is Fair Play...

ACM Washington Update, Vol. 13.4 (May 6, 2009)
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM

ACM Washington Update, Vol. 13.4 (May 6, 2009)

CONTENTS [1] Newsletter Highlights [2] Proposed Legislation Would Expand Federal Reach Into Cybersecurity [3] White House Cybersecurity Review Complete [4] U.S...

In cellphone, India reveals an essence
From Putting People First

In cellphone, India reveals an essence

Anand Giridharadas, South Asia correspondent at International Herald Tribune, describes what makes the cellphone special in India, and what it means for democracy...

Multitasking a Myth?
From The Eponymous Pickle

Multitasking a Myth?

A NYT piece on the science of concentration says that concentration, once broken, can take twenty minutes to re-establish. Overviews some of the findings in the...

Exxon Station Locator
From The Eponymous Pickle

Exxon Station Locator

It has been reported that ExxonMobil has released a new station locator using the Google API. It has also been pointed out that the service does not have a form...

From Springenwerk Blog

Links for 2009-05-06 [del.icio.us]

Common issues when overloading code from plugins

Netezza and Pi Solutions
From The Eponymous Pickle

Netezza and Pi Solutions

Certainly an interesting objective here: "... Pi Solutions and Netezza jointly sponsored a free web seminar focused on how true item-level profitability analytics...

Netezza and Green Business Intelligence
From The Eponymous Pickle

Netezza and Green Business Intelligence

Piece from Insurance Networking News, includes 8 tips to green your business intelligence strategy ... a mention of Netezza, BI appliance innovator: " ... the BI...

Inspiring articles by Elizabeth Churchill of Yahoo! Research
From Putting People First

Inspiring articles by Elizabeth Churchill of Yahoo! Research

If you like the writings by the highly original Elizabeth Churchill, a principal research scientist at Yahoo! Research in charge of the Internet Experiences Group...

Wolfram previews a kind of computational
From insideHPC

Wolfram previews a kind of computational

c|net has an article on Wolfram Research’s new product, Wolfram Alpha, being launched later this month Wolfram Alpha is like a cross between a research library,...

Rackable announces Q1, posts
From insideHPC

Rackable announces Q1, posts

Rackable, er Sgrackable, Racka-GI, the company that just bought SGI, announced its first quarter results yesterday. The company lost $.46 per share, GAAP net loss...

IBM partners in fight against
From insideHPC

IBM partners in fight against

Yesterday IBM and the U of Texas announced that they were working together to use the World Community Grid in the fight against

SC09 podcast with Cherri Pancake, getting the most out of
From insideHPC

SC09 podcast with Cherri Pancake, getting the most out of

SC is a huge conference, and gets bigger every year. But the conference has kept up, listening to attendee feedback and introducing new tools, features, and support...

links for 2009-05-06
From Wild WebMink

links for 2009-05-06

How David Beats Goliath Great (if rather long) article from Gladwell reminding us that David beat Goliath by playing as David. ...

Most Interaction09 conference videos now online
From Putting People First

Most Interaction09 conference videos now online

Most of the videos of the Interaction09 conference, that took place this February in Vancouver, Canada, are now available online (see also here). Here is a personal...
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