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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
Analyzing Coupons with Biometrics
Overview of work done by Neurofocus on the reaction of consumers to coupons and promotions. Multiple biometrics techniques used. Analyzing print and online coupons...
From insideHPC
Apple Picks up Graphics
MSN Money via the Inquirer: Apple has hired graphics wizard Bob Drebin away from AMD’s graphics group.
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
End the University as We Know It: My Commentary
Mark C. Taylor is quickly becoming famous for his New York Times piece End the University as We Know It.
From insideHPC
Power down for the planet winner
Back in February we covered a challenge issued by the Climate Savers Computing Initiative to encourage universities reduce pollution by powering down campus computers...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
President Obama Announces New PCAST Members
Yesterday President Obama announced the full membership of his President's Council of Advisers on Science and Technology (PCAST). This is an advisory body that...
From insideHPC
Penguin Computing Making its
eWeek has posted an article on the latest progress made within the camp of Penguin Computing.
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-04-28
Database Nation : The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century I read this book by Simson Garfinkel when it first came out. It's still...
From insideHPC
PRACE Offers Summertime Porting
PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, is sponsoring two summer workshops to be held at CSC Finland and CSCS Switzerland as part of a series of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM to Open Analytics Centers
IBM will be opening a number of global analytics centers and hire or retrain 4,000 analytics professionals. They seem to be serious. Press release.
From insideHPC
Rice Buys Appro HyperGreen
Appro announecd today that the Rice University Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology has purchased an Appro HyperGreen Cluster solution.
From insideHPC
Butte Sim Center Close to a Deal with
Earlier this month, the Butte-MT-based National Center for Health Care Informatics signed an agreement with the US Air Force to produce advanced computer-simulated...
From insideHPC
Intel launches Cluster Connection
Last week Intel launched a new website to promote the advantages of its Cluster Ready program. Here is what Intel’s Chip Shots site has to say about the launch Intel...
From insideHPC
Cisco CEO: clouds
From an article late last week at CSO Online, news that Cisco CEO John Chambers is optimistic about the future of cloud computing (which is good given his company’s...
From insideHPC
NSF awards support academic research in Google
Found at HPCwire, news of NSF awards late last week to support academic use of the CluE program [The] National Science Foundation announced it has awarded nearly...
From insideHPC
Lustre Scalability
The folks over at the Sun HPC Watercooler have led us over to a great video on the topic of Lustre scalability.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Emotional Cartography Resource
Michael W Cristiani passes this along, just now examining.Emotional Cartography: Implications of Visualizing Intimate Biometric Data" ... The (44MB freely downloadable)...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Obama Administration Appoints a Chief Technology Officer
One of the Administration's campaign promises was to create the position of Chief Technology Officer. While the specific job description was vague during the campaign...
From insideHPC
Cray, Fernbach, and Kennedy award nominations due July
Dan Reed has a post on his blog today about the upcoming due dates for HPC’s Nobel Prizes, the Cray and Fernbach awards, plus a brand new one named in honor of...
From insideHPC