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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
Paper Water Bottles
In a conversation with the design company Brand-Image I was introduced to their design concept: the paper water bottle. An example at the right. Some true alternative...
From insideHPC
Ballad of the Massively Parallel Supercomputing
And this is my first music post. Always something to celebrate here at insideHPC. Mike Bernhardt
From CSDiary
Claytronics on Slashdot
The Claytronics Project has hit Slashdot (again) today. See the post by clicking here. Jason Campbell (Intel Research Pittsburgh) is quoted in the article, and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Guidelines for Behavior Ads
From the BBC, a new trend?New guidelines on behavioural ads UK ISPs stand to make a lot of money from targeted advertising. The online advertising industry has...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
ACM Washington Update, Vol. 13.2 (March 8, 2009)
CONTENTS [1] Newsletter Highlights [2] USACM Outlines Technical Principles for Open Government [3] USACM Hails Boosts in Research Funding [4] NIST Presents New...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of March 9
March 10 Hearing The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on patent reform, with a focus on recent court decisions and possible legislation. 10 a.m.,...
From insideHPC
AT&T wants to run your
Well, maybe not your HPC datacenter, but they are definitely lining up to run big enterprise datacenters, and $19B business in 2008. From an article at The Register...
From insideHPC
BNP Paribas deploys Tesla-based
BNP Paribas Corporate and Investment Banking announced last week that they have deployed a new CPU-based computer A significant portion of the calculations, about...
From Apophenia
"Social Media is Here to Stay... Now What?"
Last week, I gave my first talk at Microsoft since joining MSR. This talk was part of the annual Tech Fest where researchers from labs around the world come and...
From CSDiary
Is CS Enrollment on the Upswing?
We’ll have to wait for the new Taulbee Survey results to come out (any day now), but there are a few signs here and there that CS enrollments are on the upswing...
From CSDiary
Keeping Up
I’m way overdue for a new entry on this blog. The past two weeks have been pretty crazy. I attended the Computing Leadership Summit and the CRA Board meeting in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cruising, Searching and Selecting
Herb Sorensen of TNS takes a scientific look at shopper behavior in their habitat: Deconstructing the Shopping Trip (so far!). Another excellent read.He also reminded...
From Putting People First
Empathy is growth
Dev Patnaik, founder and chief executive of Jump Associates, argues in Business Week that knowing the wants of your customers is more important than out-innovating...
From Putting People First
The LIFT conference experience
One of those things hard to achieve with conferences is a good atmosphere. The recent LIFT conference in Geneva, Switzerland clearly has it down to a science:...
From Putting People First
New frontiers at LIFT09
The final session of the 2009 LIFT conference was about new frontiers, devoted to people who are pushing the envelope, and reinventing their fields in the process...
From Putting People First
Nokia
Two new interviews on Nokia’s IdeasProject: This device we make in our own image changes everything Renowned computational biologist and educational innovator James...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Creative Destruction and the Notificator
Not sure I would bet on Google being soon upended by a new challenger. Yet this piece makes some interesting historical comparisons. Things also do change rapidly...
From Putting People First
When everyone
Randall Stross is a New York Times staff writer, who expands on the issue of privacy in an era of social networking — a topic which has also been addressed pointedly...
From Putting People First