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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
New version of CUDA
NVIDIA announced last week that it has released version 2.2 of CUDA, which includes support for Windows 7 among other features. Some of the highlights Visual Profiler...
From insideHPC
HPCS 2009 program, workshops
The Canadian High Performance Computing Symposium 2009 program has been announced and you can find details at www.hpcs2009.org. The symposium is also hosting a...
From insideHPC
The most dangerous
…from a computer program, as a professor at my alma mater used to say, is an answer that looks “about right.” Dan Reed has an interesting post on his blog right...
From Putting People First
Gemalto, Microsoft, Nokia and Philips team up to advance
At the Future of the Internet conference in Prague today, Gemalto, Microsoft, Nokia and Philips announced a new initiative that will address the fundamental societal...
From CSDiary
Back from Qatar
In a week it will be commencement weekend at Carnegie Mellon. The ceremony will hold special interest for the School of Computer Science, since Google CEO Eric...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Asymmetric Following
O'Reilly on asymmetric following. This is an aspect of social media I had been thinking about since being introduced to them. He has some excellent points here...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Netezza Links with eHarmony
Another interesting application of advanced data warehousing capabilities. With other applications matching consumers and retailers:" ... Online dating service...
From Putting People First
Book: Identity in the Age of Cloud Computing
Identity in the Age of Cloud Computing: The next-generation Internet’s impact on business, governance and social interaction J.D. Lasica The Aspen Institute, 2009...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The End of Voice Mail
Now that I am using systems like Google Voice I thought about the ultimate demise of voice mail. Yet that system does not always provide a good transcription of...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-05-10
New Pattern Found in Prime Numbers Fascinating, and now it's discovered so obvious you wonder why no-one else has observed it before...
From Putting People First
Journal of Business Strategy on design innovation
A special issue of Journal of Business Strategy on
From The Noisy Channel
Designing for Faceted Search
While I was inundated with conferences a couple of weeks ago, I missed s a nice article by Stephanie Lemieux at User Interface Engineering (a site I recommend in...
From The Noisy Channel
Designing for Faceted Search
While I was inundated with conferences a couple of weeks ago, I missed s a nice article by Stephanie Lemieux at User Interface Engineering (a site I recommend in...
From insideHPC
Shareholders file suit to block Oracle purchase, Sun fears it bribed foreign
Sun gave the SEC some bad news on Friday. Computerworld is reporting that in a recent SEC filing Sun reveals that 3 different lawsuits have been filed by shareholders...
From The Noisy Channel
The Twouble with Twitter Search
There has been a flurry of reports about Twitter search–whether about Twitter’s plans to improve their search functionality or about alternative ways to search...
From The Noisy Channel
The Twouble with Twitter Search
There has been a flurry of reports about Twitter search–whether about Twitter’s plans to improve their search functionality or about alternative ways to search...
From The Eponymous Pickle
First Experience with WolframAlpha
Yesterday I finally got early access to WolframAlpha. I understand it will be coming out publicly in the coming week(s). It is being positioned as '... Making...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Student Speaks Out About Computer Science Curriculum
CSTA has spent the last several years arguing for rigorous computer science courses in high school, for emphasizing critical, computational thinking skills, and...
From The Eponymous Pickle