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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 The Eponymous Pickle
Corporate Avatars?
When I first read this piece I was confused. Is a visual representation of a person OK to represent a company? I had read Byron Reeves: Media Equation .... which...
From Putting People First
Living and learning with social media
danah boyd (blog), a researcher at Microsoft Research New England and a Fellow at the Harvard University Berkman Center for Internet and Society, was one of the...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-05-02
Open Source at Eclipse: Free To Talk Unrest in the Eclipse community. I wonder if the Board over there will entertain this sort...
From insideHPC
Take the
We've had a couple surveys over the years here at insideHPC -- we've done shirt surveys and asked you what we could change to make things better -- but as we were...
From Putting People First
Putting people first: working together with user-led organisations
This document from the UK Department for Health outlines the benefits that local authorities, and their residents, enjoy when they work with user-led organisations...
From Putting People First
On engineering and design: an open letter
Microsoft Research Principal Scientist Bill Buxton calls for engineers and user-experience designers to learn to appreciate one another: “End-user satisfaction...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Business Intelligence in Downturns
CapGemini recording on the value of BI in business downturns. Notable mentions of operational optimization using BI and allied analytical methods. By Stephen...
From The Eponymous Pickle
CACM Launches Website
I have reported on this a number of times during its test, but now The Communications of the ACM has formally launched their new web site. The Press release here...
From Apophenia
"Facebook and academic performance: Reconciling a media sensation with data"
In mid-April, journalists heard about a student poster at the American Educational Research Association's annual meeting called "A Description of Facebook Use and...
From Putting People First
ACM rolls out new Communications website, which features Putting People First
From The Noisy Channel
SIGIR
You can now register for SIGIR 2009! Here are the details from the registration page: Registration fees for ACM members are as follows: $695 for the main three...
From The Noisy Channel
SIGIR
You can now register for SIGIR 2009! Here are the details from the registration page: Registration fees for ACM members are as follows: $695 for the main three...
From insideHPC
Apple Secretly Securing Silicon
Following our coverage of Apple’s recent hiring of Bob Drebin, I read an article in the Wall Street Journal [print addition] that elaborated a bit on Apple’s recent...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-05-01
Entire New Zealand Copyright Act to be scrapped "The Copyright Act was written in the pre-internet age, and does not address any...
From The Noisy Channel
Conferences, Conferences, Conferences!
Apologies for the lull in blogging this week, but it’s been a busy week in what looks to be a busy spring (and summer!) of conferences related to information access...
From The Noisy Channel
Conferences, Conferences, Conferences!
Apologies for the lull in blogging this week, but it’s been a busy week in what looks to be a busy spring (and summer!) of conferences related to information access...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Twittering With Mathematica
The latest Wolfram blog post is Twittering with Mathematica. Would you have expected a mathematics and visualization package to be able to interact with the API's...
From insideHPC
Eadline on
Douglas Eadline has a piece at Linux Journal this about frameworks that allow users to create HPC applications without MPI. He outlines a spectrum of implementation...
From insideHPC
Official Release: Rackable Systems Receives Court Approval to Purchase Silicon Graphics
Silicon Graphics has released an official statement regarding the recent filing and subsequent purchase by Rackable.
From The Eponymous Pickle