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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
Acumem announces new
Acumem has announced that support for Windows HPC Server 2008 is now available in its performance tools suite featuring Threadspotter and Slowspotter. The performance...
From insideHPC
Fault tolerance at scale: embrace your inner
iSTGW is running a feature article this week with an overview of the issues discussed at the Fault Tolerance for Extreme Scalability Workshop sponsored by the NSF...
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Matlab announces Argonne, Tesla using their
The Mathworks announced two customers this week using their tools in science and engineering. The first at Argonne The MathWorks today announced that Argonne National...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Maps Includes WebCams
Google Maps has started to include webcam locations. Now over 9,000 world-wide.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Signals and Financial Modeling
Renowned Game and simulation model builder Ken Karakotsios posts on market signals in financial engineering. A very nice case study of how a model is constructed...
From insideHPC
ICCS offers free HPC
Found at HPCwire, news that the ICCS, hosted by the LSU Center for Computation & Technology, is offering free HPC education: The ninth annual International Conference...
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SC09
The latest edition of the SC09 newsletter is out; it’s not up on the website yet, but Rich Brueckner from Sun has linked to it here (thanks, Rich). Technical Panel...
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AMD reports Q1 2009, posts
Two days ago (sorry, I was on the road) AMD reported its first quarter results for 2009. Performance was down over 20% year over year, and they lost money, continuing...
From The Noisy Channel
Too Connected, Or Not Connected Enough?
A bit off my usual selection of topics, but an article by Bruce Perens about a cyber-attack on Morgan Hill, a small city in northern California caught my attention...
From The Noisy Channel
Too Connected, Or Not Connected Enough?
A bit off my usual selection of topics, but an article by Bruce Perens about a cyber-attack on Morgan Hill, a small city in northern California caught my attention...
From Putting People First
What on Earth are Anthropologists Doing Playing With Mobile Phones?
What on earth are anthropologists doing playing with mobile phones, asks Ken Banks, founder of kiwanja.net and creator of FrontlineSMS. “It’s widely recognised...
From The Eponymous Pickle
GS1 DataBar
The GS1 DataBar (formerly RSS, Reduced Space Symbology) is a form of barcode, approved and promoted by the GS1 standards body which contains more data space and...
From insideHPC
SiCortex Honors Earth Day With Special
In honor of Earth Day, SiCortex has announced an interesting and unusual offer to those interested in purchasing new systems.
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Panasas Announces New Product
Panasas has announced a new, broader product line of storage products.
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Glimpses of AMD
AMD, today, released a press statement delivering some tidbits of tasty info on the next three years of core silicon coming out of Sunnyvale.
From CSDiary
Are There 20 Top-10 CS Departments?
I’m on board a Delta flight bound for Pittsburgh right now. My curiosity got the best of me and so I plunked down some money (too much, really) to try out the airline’s...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nature of Private Label Gains
This piece suggests that they have been underway for a long time and cannot be blamed on the recession. Also useful comments. A big challenge for major label CPG...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart to Double Solar Power
Wal-Mart is placing solar panels on their store roofs. Great idea and very good marketing.
From The Noisy Channel
SIGIR
Thanks to Jeff Dalton for alerting me to SIGIR 2009 announcing the lists of accepted papers and posters. As Jon Elsas points out, the authorship looks quite different...
From The Noisy Channel