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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 …
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The wisdom of community
In an article on A List Apart, Derek Powazek explores what it means to connect the ideas of James Surowiecki, expressed in his book The Wisdom of Crowds, to the...
From insideHPC
First winner announced today, still time to jump in the drawing for this week
I’ll be spinning the big wheel here at insideHPC HQ (I’ve always wanted to use that thing) to find out who the first week’s winner is in our Bribery is Fair Play...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
ACM Washington Update, Vol. 13.4 (May 6, 2009)
CONTENTS [1] Newsletter Highlights [2] Proposed Legislation Would Expand Federal Reach Into Cybersecurity [3] White House Cybersecurity Review Complete [4] U.S...
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In cellphone, India reveals an essence
Anand Giridharadas, South Asia correspondent at International Herald Tribune, describes what makes the cellphone special in India, and what it means for democracy...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Multitasking a Myth?
A NYT piece on the science of concentration says that concentration, once broken, can take twenty minutes to re-establish. Overviews some of the findings in the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Exxon Station Locator
It has been reported that ExxonMobil has released a new station locator using the Google API. It has also been pointed out that the service does not have a form...
From Springenwerk Blog
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Common issues when overloading code from plugins
From The Eponymous Pickle
Netezza and Pi Solutions
Certainly an interesting objective here: "... Pi Solutions and Netezza jointly sponsored a free web seminar focused on how true item-level profitability analytics...
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Netezza and Green Business Intelligence
Piece from Insurance Networking News, includes 8 tips to green your business intelligence strategy ... a mention of Netezza, BI appliance innovator: " ... the BI...
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Inspiring articles by Elizabeth Churchill of Yahoo! Research
If you like the writings by the highly original Elizabeth Churchill, a principal research scientist at Yahoo! Research in charge of the Internet Experiences Group...
From insideHPC
Wolfram previews a kind of computational
c|net has an article on Wolfram Research’s new product, Wolfram Alpha, being launched later this month Wolfram Alpha is like a cross between a research library,...
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Rackable announces Q1, posts
Rackable, er Sgrackable, Racka-GI, the company that just bought SGI, announced its first quarter results yesterday. The company lost $.46 per share, GAAP net loss...
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IBM partners in fight against
Yesterday IBM and the U of Texas announced that they were working together to use the World Community Grid in the fight against
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SC09 podcast with Cherri Pancake, getting the most out of
SC is a huge conference, and gets bigger every year. But the conference has kept up, listening to attendee feedback and introducing new tools, features, and support...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-05-06
How David Beats Goliath Great (if rather long) article from Gladwell reminding us that David beat Goliath by playing as David. ...
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Most Interaction09 conference videos now online
Most of the videos of the Interaction09 conference, that took place this February in Vancouver, Canada, are now available online (see also here). Here is a personal...
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The poverty of user-centered design
Andrew Dillon, dean of the School of Information (”iSchool”) at the University of Texas, writes on his blog InfoMatters that he finds “the term
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User-centred approach drives the design of Intel
In December last year, Intel design researcher Daria Loi made a very strong presentation at the UPA Europe conference showing how people in different cultures “keep...
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Cisco CTO: The future of collaboration will be all about user experience
In a series of predictions on the future of collaboration, Padmasree Warrior, the chief technology officer of Cisco Systems, points out that it’s the user experience...
From The Eponymous Pickle