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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
Civil Nanotechnology
In a post in the Foresight blog: Civil nanotechnology: Open source sensing in Seed magazine. The promotion of nanotech enabled open source sensors in the environment...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
A Computer Science Honor Society?
Does your high school have chapters of any subject-specific honor societies, such as Mu Alpha Theta (math), Science National Honor Society, Tri-M (music), or one...
From insideHPC
Tabor Research stands by positive HPC outlook in down
Addison Snell at Tabor Research published an interesting read last week at the HPCwire blog. With the economy beginning to crash down around us, Tabor Research...
From insideHPC
TotalView Adds Support For HP Cluster
TotalView Tech has announced that its flagship TotalView debugger now supports the HP Cluster Platform Workgroup System.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Scrapwalls
Now several times I have had the task of creating a collage of images quickly and easily. Typically I would have perhaps a hundred design images or so in a file...
From Putting People First
Is the
“Are experiences relevant in a recession?” asks Jonathan Picoult. The stock of Starbucks Coffee, long revered as a prime example of a consumer-focused, experience...
From Putting People First
Nokia and Securitas to cooperate in bringing security services into mobile devices
Press release Nokia and Securitas today announced a new cooperation regarding mobile services for personal security and every day safety. Mobile devices already...
From Putting People First
Creating social solutions for MS patients
The people from Live|Work, a UK service design company, have inspired me from the time I met them at the meanwhile defunct Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, now...
From The Eponymous Pickle
McCloud Presentation at TED
Presentation Zen has a good overview of and links to Scott McCloud's presentation at TED: Presenting comics in a new (media) world. I read McCloud's book: Understanding...
From CSDiary
Bandwidth at the Inauguration?
I’m in Falls Church, Virginia, for a short visit with my father and stepmother. This is a historic time to be in the Washington DC area, of course. Some very, very...
From insideHPC
Tesla GPU seminar coming
Last week while I was traveling Cluster Monkey posted an announcement about a Tesla seminar this week, hosted by NVIDIA and Microway. The key presenter is Sumit...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visualizing Earthquakes
I just rediscovered the Wolfram blog. Had not used Mathematica now for several years. I know that their visualization capabilities are excellent, especially combined...
From insideHPC
University of Canterbury First to Teach Supercomputing in
The University of Canterbury will become the first institution in Australasia to teach high performance computing.
From Putting People First
India: The Impact of Mobile Phones
Vodafone publishes a very good, but highly under-communicated, Public Policy series. The aim of the series is “to provide a platform for leading experts to write...
From Putting People First
When everyone zigs, Cory Doctorow zags
Just when everyone is writing on how mobile phones are bringing about huge changes in emerging markets, Cory Doctorow publishes a very nice and thought provoking...
From Putting People First
Taken Out of Context: American teen sociality in networked publics
danah boyd is a a PhD candidate at the School of Information (iSchool) at the University of California (Berkeley) and a Fellow at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center...
From Putting People First
New phone features
The complexity of modern mobile phones is leaving users frustrated and angry, research by Mformation (and reported by BBC) suggests. Some 61% of those interviewed...
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