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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 Noisy Channel
More Thoughts on Image Retrieval
After my recent posts about Google’s similarity browsing for images, a colleague reached out to me to educate me about some of the recent advances in image retrieval...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shoppers need Deadlines
In the Atlantic: Shoppers need Deadlines too, on promotions and gift-cards and related research.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Good Twitter Overview
Karel Vredenburg of IBM provides a good adult overview of Twitter behavior. What it is, how people are using it, and what they think about it. He got most of these...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Mechanical Turk Resource Center
After hearing little from Amazon's Mechanical Turk system for some time, I just received a note that they were establishing a resource center. This is an attempt...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-05-08
UK government takes next steps towards online future "In a speech to the NESTA / UNESCO Public Service Media 2009 Conference the...
From insideHPC
First week
Hey kids, we have a winner! Kevin B., a long time (like, from the very beginning) insideHPC reader got selected at random from the pool of people who have completed...
From The Eponymous Pickle
BPM in Retail
Microsoft's presentation on the use of Business Process Management in retail. Well done. BPM should be used much more than it is. It is the simplest form of...
From The Noisy Channel
Playing With Wolfram Alpha
Woo hoo, I have preview access to Wolfram Alpha! I’ve only had a short time to play with it, but I can already report that my experience confirms my previously...
From The Noisy Channel
Playing With Wolfram Alpha
Woo hoo, I have preview access to Wolfram Alpha! I’ve only had a short time to play with it, but I can already report that my experience confirms my previously...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Research interests should be short-lived?
How did I come to Computer Science? Through geophysics! I was once given data sets spanning several CD-ROMs. Back then, this was a lot of data!
From Putting People First
Daniel Kaplan
Daniel Kaplan, CEO of the French Next-Generation Internet Foundation (FING) and one of the driving forces behind the upcoming LIFT conference in Marseilles, France...
From insideHPC
UK Met Office Shooting for DC Direct
The UK Met Office is planning to upgrade its supercomputing systems in the next 18 months.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neuroscience of Illusion
Teller on the Neuroscience of illusion in Wired. There is something to learn here for the merchandising arts. " .. exploiting gaps in human perception ... " . Via...
From insideHPC
Super Micro rack mounts
From an article at The Register, news that Super Micro has a new breed of rack mounted server This doesn’t mean that low-powered Atom and similar processors - like...
From insideHPC
German Met installs NEC vector
From news at HPCwire One such national weather service is the German Meteorological Service, called Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD), based in Offenbach, Germany. Here...
From insideHPC
Flywheel UPS business grows, best practices
Enterprise IT Planet has posted their green news roundup. Here are a few items of interest to our community: Active Power, makers of flywheel-based UPS for green...
From Putting People First
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...
From Putting People First