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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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Britain establishes green IT
The British Computer Society is establishing a certificate program in green IT. From an article at Enterprise IT Planet: The British Computer Society is seeking...
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Green IT
Enterprise IT Planet has posted their weekly roundup of all things green. I’ve picked out a couple of items that may be of interest to you HPC readers out there...
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SiCortex Closes on Latest Funding
SiCortex has closed on its latest round of funding.
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NITRD Act passes
Sorry guys, somehow I missed this when it happened on Tuesday. Melissa Norr at the CRA’s policy blog didn’t, however, and neither did Dan Reed. The CRA’s post contains...
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Cray Appoints New Principal
Cray has announced the appointment of a new principal engineer within the office of the CTO.
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PSC and Darkstrand Join
Darkstrand, today, announced a collaboration agreement with Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center enabling corporations connected to the Darkstrand network to collaborate...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hiding Things in Plain Sight
The invisibility cloak idea is an interesting physics concept that bends light around an object and thus making it effectively 'invisible'. Well known in fiction...
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A Bonfire of the Economic Models?
Why did most academic economists fail to see the sharp downturn coming? In Knowledge@Wharton: Why Economists Failed to Predict the Financial Crisis?. This presents...
From The Noisy Channel
Reprising the Enterprise Search Summit
‘Tis the season of search conferences, at least for me, and I spent the last couple of days attending the Enterprise Search Summit in New York. I enjoyed it immensely–it’s...
From The Noisy Channel
Reprising the Enterprise Search Summit
‘Tis the season of search conferences, at least for me, and I spent the last couple of days attending the Enterprise Search Summit in New York. I enjoyed it immensely–it’s...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procter, Coke Most Innovative
Consumer Goods Technology reports that BusinessWeek includes Procter & Gamble and Coke to be among the 50 most innovative companies. Proud to have been a small...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
NITRD Bill Amended to Increase Emphasis on Computer Science Education
Today the House passed by voice vote H.R. 2020, which is a bill to amend the High Performance Computing Act. Part of this law establishes the National Information...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hubble Tech Live
Bit out of the normal realm of my posts, but my astrophysics background makes it a requirement, have followed Hubble space telescope for many years. Followable....
From Putting People First
Us Now
Watch this excellent 1 hour documentary film about the power of mass collaboration, government and the internet. “In his student flat in Colchester, Jack Howe is...
From Putting People First
Everybody
Further on my earlier theme of “we are all hackers now“, here is a long feature on user-generated devices by Fumitada Takahashi and Phil Keys in the Nikkei Electronics...
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Fujitsu Claims Development of World
Fujitsu has claimed that is has developed the world’s fastest processor.
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Panasas announces research-focused storage
Yesterday storage vendor Panasas announced a new pricing lineup on storage products aimed at university research organizations The new Panasas Research Solutions...
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links for 2009-05-13
MPs' expenses: Gordon Brown backs plan for all claims to be published online Good move. I hope we don't have to have a blow-upUK...
From The Eponymous Pickle