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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 Noisy Channel
Advertorials Preferred To Ads?
From “Brand Mentions Preferred over Ads” in eMarketer: Compared with banner ads, pop-up ads, e-mail offers and sponsored links, articles that include brand information...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Paul Gillin on RSS Feeds
Some quarters have been talking about Twitter replacing syndication feeds like RSS. Paul Gillin makes the case that they are still of value. I agree.
From Apophenia
What are your information needs? (Knight Commission seeks feedback)
What information do Americans need to accomplish the personal goals and to be effective citizens in our democracy? How are they getting their news and information...
From insideHPC
NASA Ames moves from Sun to SpectraLogic, cuts silos by
Found at Computerworld.com NASA’s Ames Research Center, announced today that it has consolidated its tape libraries from 10 silos to two, allowing it to reclaim...
From insideHPC
NVIDIA releases OpenCL driver for early access
Yesterday NVIDIA announced the release of an OpenCL driver and SDK for developers in its early access program (we’ve covered OpenCL before in lots of places; here...
From The Noisy Channel
Google: News Timeline
The other day, when I was blogging about Google’s news cluster timelines, I lamented their lack of a unified approach towards visualizing news over time. Their...
From The Noisy Channel
Google: News Timeline
The other day, when I was blogging about Google’s news cluster timelines, I lamented their lack of a unified approach towards visualizing news over time. Their...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Similar Image Search
Google image search now lets you find images that are similar to those brought up in a search. You can't load up an image and use it as a prototype to find similar...
From The Noisy Channel
Google: Find Similar Images
I spend a fair amount of time critizing Google for not embracing exploratory search. But today’s launch of a similar images feature is all about exploration, and...
From The Noisy Channel
Google: Find Similar Images
I spend a fair amount of time critizing Google for not embracing exploratory search. But today’s launch of a similar images feature is all about exploration, and...
From insideHPC
Oracle/Sun deal FAQ: Hardware, MySQL, yes. HPC, Vis, Lustre? Who
The FAQ [PDF] on Oracle’s Sun acquisition page has corporate answers to some of the questions we’ve been debating in email today. I’ll pull out a few; recommend...
From The Noisy Channel
Sorry About The Typos!
I discovered belatedly that the Microsoft Word template my publisher had given me was suppressing spelling correction. My bad, I should have realized something...
From The Noisy Channel
Sorry About The Typos!
I discovered belatedly that the Microsoft Word template my publisher had given me was suppressing spelling correction. My bad, I should have realized something...
From Apophenia
RIP Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Sciences (PGSS)
I have been quite fortunate over the years. I have received numerous opportunities that afforded me opportunities to go far and do amazing things. One such opportunity...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Non-Normal Thinking
Herb Sorensen on Seafood shopping and non-normal thinking. This odd congruence is yet another example of why you should never accept normal distributions as an...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of April 20
April 23 Hearing: The Communications, Technology and the Internet Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee will hold a hearing on recent developments...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dominos PR Crisis
AdAge overviews the YouTube PR Crisis at Domino's Pizza. What they did right and wrong, with comparisons to other previous PR emergency cases. Though the case...
From insideHPC
Oracle in
News out today that IBM is out and Oracle is in at Sun. From a story at CNNMoney.com Business software maker Oracle Corp. said Monday it has entered into a definitive...
From The Eponymous Pickle