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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 insideHPC
32nm on track at
Multicoreinfo.com points us to this story at the EE Times Despite recent layoffs and fab closings, Intel Corp. remains on track to deliver its first 32nm processors...
From insideHPC
HiPC coming to
From HPCwire The 16th annual IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC 2009) will be held in Cochin, India, during Dec. 16-19, 2009. It...
From insideHPC
Senate: science and computing doing ok so
Peter Harsha at the excellent Policy Blog of the CRA reports on some of the twists on the way to the US Senate’s version of the stimulus bill becoming law. $1.2B...
From Putting People First
Why computers can
MIT researchers argue that computers need to become as easy to use as those yellow sticky notes. Office workers are like electricity: When they want to get something...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Lets Simulate Everything
These articles give one the impression that general simulation is simple. Microsoft has been pushing the idea of virtual reality worlds. I like the idea but always...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Scent Delivery Kiosks for Women
Face recognition in retail, see also related recent post.Though there has been much improvement in face recognition, they are going to make mistakes. Another example...
From Putting People First
UX Week 2008 videos
Over the last months, Adaptive Path has been uploading videos of their latest UX Week that took place in August 2008. Donald Norman conversing with Adaptive Path...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Growing Your Own Indoor Air
" ... A presentation delivered this week at the TED 2009 conference demonstrates how you can
From The Eponymous Pickle
Emotions, Advertising and Consumer Choice
From the Neuroconnections 2009 meeting. I am running a panel debate on the hopes and threats of work underway today .... I will post a number of position statements...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Attention Trust
Attention Trust. I was reminded of this organization in my recent reading of Stephen Baker's The Numerati. They let you manage the value of your personal data...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Why Computer Science?
I used to say that high school students should take computer science because it helps them be better problem solvers and critical thinkers. I'd go on to say that...
From insideHPC
UT-Battelle Lands $10million
The Department of Energy has announced the details of last year’s annual program evaluation of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory management contractor team of the...
From insideHPC
Wozniak joins
A reader (hi, Paul!) pointed us to this article in the NY Times about where the Woz is hanging his hat these days Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple, could...
From insideHPC
Who will fardels
Chris Willard writes at HPCwire’s blog about the aging of HPC A long-standing concern in HPC is the graying of the industry. That is, new people are not coming...
From The Eponymous Pickle
VisiRule Expert Systems Package
I wrote about LPA recently and my own experience with using expert systems for enterprise improvement. Another way to think about this is a form of business process...
From Springenwerk Blog
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Wolfram Mathematica Home Edition
Mathematica is a great package. I used it extensively in the enterprise. Yet it has always been too expensive for the typical home user. Now they have released...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reports from Neuroconnections
From the Neuroconnections conference. I am running a panel debate on the hopes and threats of work underway today .... I will post a number of position statements...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM