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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
Smart Phone Watches
Apparently there are a number of watch format devices that aim to replace smartphones. But as long as we use our fingers I wonder about their practicality. Above...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Roland Piquepaille Passes
UK correspondent Richard James informs me of the passing of emerging tech blogger Roland Piquepaille. I read much of what he read and he was an inspiration for...
From insideHPC
Deadline approaches to apply for time on the
From HPCwire Scientists, engineers, and other U.S. researchers have until Jan. 15, 2009 (12:00 midnight local times) to apply for allocations of high-performance...
From Wild WebMink
Weekend link roundup on January 11
FTC Town Hall to Address Digital Rights Management TechnologiesIn Seattle. Looks worth a contribution, US-ians.On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dogI haveCampaign...
From CSDiary
Back in the USA, Time for PhD Admissions Decisions
I’ve just landed in Detroit, just one more short hop to get home. The visit to Taipei was both productive and fun. Lots of CMU faculty members were there: Lujo...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Produce Interface
This post on a Danish interface for produce does not say a great deal, but I am glad that others are paying attention to retail interfaces around the world. Produce...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bullet Graphs
A Perceptual Edge post about bullet graphs, which I have never used. Apparently these were designed to replace circular gauge type displays. In their simplest...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Gender and Race Issues in Computing
On several mailing lists that I monitor when the issue of gender and/or race is brought up there is a group that responds that any attempt to increase the percentage...
From Putting People First
10 most common misconceptions about user experience design
Whitney Hess, an independent user experience designer, writer and consultant, asked some of the most influential and widely respected [USA] practitioners in UX...
From CSDiary
CMU Students Cited by the CRA, NY Times
Well, I’m finally on my way home from Taipei. I’m on a layover right now in Osaka, Japan, awaiting the continuation of my flight back to the USA. While I’m here...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Finish this sequence of equalities
8809 = 6 7111 = 0 2172 = 0 6666 = 4 1111 = 0 3213 = 0 7662 = 2 9312 = 1 0000 = 4 2222 = 0 3333 = 0 5555 = 0 8193 = 3 8096 = 5 7777 = 0 9999 = 4 7756 = 1 6855 =...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Expands Semantics in Search
I recall doing several searches where I thought the results indicated a fairly complex semantic net was being used on their side. Here is more evidence that they...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Frequency of Impulse Purchases
Wharton Prof David R. Bell, in a detailed article, says that there is less general impulse purchasing than we had thought. " ... "The message ... is that the amount...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tom Peters on Boomer Markets
Tom Peters comments on the Boomer market and links to some new Forrester work in this area.
From The Eponymous Pickle
CES Overview
Have not been to one of these in years, but worth a look: The Consumer Electronics Show
From insideHPC
User Response: 10GbE Cluster
Yesterday, we posted a summary and link to an article arguing for the general acceptance of 10GbE as a valid cluster interconnect platform.
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
The purpose of peer review
Michael Nielsen has an excellent post today: Three myths about scientific peer review. The myths are: Scientists have always used peer review: it seems it became...
From Wild WebMink
Thursday's Links, January 8th
OpenOffice.org vs. Go-OO: Cutting through the Gordian KnotInteresting and reasonably balanced article on the endless and fruitless debate Novell is generating.Sun...
From CSDiary
NY Times on the Pittsburgh Economy
I’m about to start the last day of meetings here in Taipei. There have been many interesting research presentations and hallway conversations, as well as ceremonial...
From The Eponymous Pickle