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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
9 operating systems that time
Matt Lake, waxes nostalgic at Computerworld and remembers 10 operating systems from the halcyon days of yore (that’s right, I said “yore”). You’re not really supposed...
From insideHPC
IBM shifts 5,000 US jobs overseas
This is reported in several places, but I’ll link you to John Oates at The Register. According to the story IBM is cutting 5,000 jobs today, mostly in the US and...
From insideHPC
NVIDIA:
At the beginning of March I pointed to a story in which Michael Hara, SVP of Investor Relations for NVIDIA, was quoted saying that it would “make sense” for NVIDIA...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Profile Update
I just updated my Linkedin Profile, including a new recommendation. As part of some of my previous work I maintain a presence in a number of social networking...
From insideHPC
Linux on Wall
Doug over at ClusterMonkey has a post today on the upcoming Linux on Wall Street event If you are in the North Jersey/New York/Connecticut (and even Pennsylvania)...
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ScalableInformatics intros GPU+Cell
Michigan-based HPC storage and compute provider ScalableInformatics announced today that they are now offering IBM’s Cell in their Tesla-based workstations The...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Freeman Dyson
Good NYT mag piece on my long time, very iconoclastic hero, physicist Freeman Dyson. His WP article is also a good summary.
From The Eponymous Pickle
One Version of the Truth in Business Intelligence
From eCommerce Times:" ... After spending lots of time and money on business intelligence reporting and analysis, many companies often find themselves with multiple...
From Putting People First
Pay by cellphone? Sounds great. So why don
Fast Company’s Chris Dannen reflects on why Americans don’t use mobile banking. “Obopay is an payment system that works on your cell phone–kind of like a mobile...
From Putting People First
How networks of trust can unlock innovation
Informal networks are the links and exchanges that bind people together, explains Dr Karen Stephenson, a corporate anthropologist and an expert on social networks...
From Putting People First
How Innovations From Developing Nations Trickle-up to the West
More than a month before Business Week published an article about ‘trickle-up innovation’ (that I reported on earlier this week), Fast Company had already delved...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Charmin Social Network: Sit and Squat.
From AdAge. Clever idea. Also interesting is that this is described as a wiki."Charmin social network finds and rates bathroomsSitOrSquat.com, a mobile social...
From Wild WebMink
Document Freedom Day 2009
Today is Document Freedom Day, the second year it's been celebrated. We have a great opportunity in front of us this year. With Microsoft promising to support...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Motionx by Fullpower
I recently posted about the Fullpower Motionx GPS application. I just took a look at their site and saw this page about a number of applications they are concentrating...
From Wild WebMink
Link Catchup on March 25th
Apologies for the break in transmissions; the calendar has been completely full for the last week or so. Obama's Gift To British Prime Minister Rendered Useless...
From insideHPC
Site facelift, beware falling
Thanks to Joe over at scalability.org, we didn’t have any more site issues this morning. Hopefully, things will stabilize now. But just to maximize chances that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
MIT Open Access Policy
MIT is backing an open access policy to make all papers authored by its students and faculty free and openly accessible on the Web. They say this will move control...
From insideHPC
Red Bull Employs Platform Computing Technology for 2009 Race
The Red Bull Racing Formula One team has recently employed the help of Platform Computing to assist in managing its HPC loads for the 2009 race season.
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