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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 Computer Science Teachers Association
Some Very Interesting AP CS Numbers
The number of students taking the Advance Placement Computer Science A exam has been increasing since 2005. In 2008 15,014 students nationally took this exam.Table...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nielsen Suspends In-Store Metric
Missed the press release on Friday: Nielsen Suspends PRISM Data System, apparently indefinitely, although they blame it on the economy, has to be in part because...
From Putting People First
The OLPC versus the mobile phone - a false dichotomy
Katrin Verclas of Mobile Active reports on the ongoing debate over the value of cheap and open laptops for users in developing countries as opposed to mobile phones...
From insideHPC
SGI Sets Date for Q2-FY09 Numbers
Silicon Graphics has announced that it has set a date to release its second quarter, fiscal year 2009 financial results.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tesco and Twitter
The article below, and their web site, and on Twitter. Following them at this time, though there is too much buzz for my taste there. Tesco tunes in to the artCorrespondent...
From insideHPC
University of Magdeburg to Deploy
The University of Magdeburg of Germany has announced that MEGWARE Computer GmbH, the SiCortex partner in Germany, has been selected to install a new SiCortex 5832...
From insideHPC
Butte Super May Pay off for Butte
We’ve recently been following the progress of a new supercomputing project spawned by the folks in Butte, Montana.
From Putting People First
The unforeseen consequences of the social web
Lidija Davis reflects on ReadWriteWeb on the consequences of what you do on social media and its traces that cannot be easily removed from the Web. The social Web...
From insideHPC
Symposium on Application Accelerators in
The NCSA-hosted Symposium on Application Accelerators in HPC is gearing up for sumissions for its July 2009 conference The first annual 2009 Symposium on Application...
From insideHPC
Gov Bill Richardson points to the next job for
You’ll recall that early last year New Mexico’s big (like number 3 on the Nov 2007 list big) SGI started running jobs from outside users, and that NM’s plans for...
From insideHPC
Class action lawsuit filed against Rackable for alleged violiations of securities
Attorneys are getting geared up to press a class action against Rackable. There are several attorney announcements out there trying to gather members of the class...
From Springenwerk Blog
"item" is a Reserved Word in Internet Explorer 6 and 7
Arg! I know every web developer hates the IE. But sometimes the reasons why we hate it so much become so painfully obvious again. Like today. I've been workingCompanion...
From insideHPC
IDC forecasts declining HPC systems
This sounds like a no-brainer, but keep in mind that predictions right now are all over the map and depend upon how you slice the market. The Platform/Waters survey...
From insideHPC
Focusing on core
I’ve been really busy lately, and Joe Landman has a post on recent RIFs in the HPC ecosystem that nicely lays out what’s going on lately, only some of which has...
From insideHPC
Searching for the -gpu
Jeff Layton over at Cluster Monkey is on the quest for the -gpu option — a quick way to take an existing code and optimize it for GPUs without a rewrite. He isn’t...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Retail Drama
Yesterday I walked Costco with a cart. I take more than a casual interest in these kinds of excursions. I look for assortment, costs, technologies and shelf design...
From Putting People First
What technology has taught us at dizzying speed
Alice Rawsthorn, the design critic of the International Herald Tribune, reflects on what skills have, because of technology, become less useful than they would...
From Putting People First
Horizon Report 2009
The annual Horizon Report describes the continuing work of the New Media Consortium (NMC)
From Putting People First