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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
Google: Find Similar Images
I spend a fair amount of time critizing Google for not embracing exploratory search. But today’s launch of a similar images feature is all about exploration, and...
From The Noisy Channel
Google: Find Similar Images
I spend a fair amount of time critizing Google for not embracing exploratory search. But today’s launch of a similar images feature is all about exploration, and...
From insideHPC
Oracle/Sun deal FAQ: Hardware, MySQL, yes. HPC, Vis, Lustre? Who
The FAQ [PDF] on Oracle’s Sun acquisition page has corporate answers to some of the questions we’ve been debating in email today. I’ll pull out a few; recommend...
From The Noisy Channel
Sorry About The Typos!
I discovered belatedly that the Microsoft Word template my publisher had given me was suppressing spelling correction. My bad, I should have realized something...
From The Noisy Channel
Sorry About The Typos!
I discovered belatedly that the Microsoft Word template my publisher had given me was suppressing spelling correction. My bad, I should have realized something...
From Apophenia
RIP Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Sciences (PGSS)
I have been quite fortunate over the years. I have received numerous opportunities that afforded me opportunities to go far and do amazing things. One such opportunity...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Non-Normal Thinking
Herb Sorensen on Seafood shopping and non-normal thinking. This odd congruence is yet another example of why you should never accept normal distributions as an...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of April 20
April 23 Hearing: The Communications, Technology and the Internet Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee will hold a hearing on recent developments...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dominos PR Crisis
AdAge overviews the YouTube PR Crisis at Domino's Pizza. What they did right and wrong, with comparisons to other previous PR emergency cases. Though the case...
From insideHPC
Oracle in
News out today that IBM is out and Oracle is in at Sun. From a story at CNNMoney.com Business software maker Oracle Corp. said Monday it has entered into a definitive...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fast Business Intelligence
Good overview piece on players loading and delivering BI intelligence data. I have been exploring related approaches for virtual retail spaces lately.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Programmable Tattoos
A report in Slashdot on under skin displays, with a somewhat similar idea of tattoos that can act as displays. A bit reminiscent of injectable RFID tags, which...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
How to initiate collaboration in science
You have read someone’s work and you have ideas about how to extend their work. You are also interested in working with them on your ideas? Or maybe you just want...
From insideHPC
Computerworld wonders what the heck the DoD was
Although they put it more politely, in this article which ran on Friday at Computerworld.com. By February, Silicon Graphics Inc. was in deep trouble. It was shedding...
From insideHPC
NSF awards support science with cloud
Found at HPCwire, news that NSF has awarded a series of grants to UW to support the cause of scientists using clouds for research The University of Washington has...
From Putting People First
How good is the mobile net experience
BBC technology reporter Maggie Shiels reflects on the quality of the mobile net experience. The article contains many quotes from industry representatives, but...
From insideHPC
Wild guess that noisy chips won
Here’s an interesting idea from the NewScientist While researchers are striving to make the models more realistic, they are limited by the processing power of the...
From insideHPC
Real scale, and the week in
Latest features are up at HPCwire. In “Real scale, real problems” I discuss last Yahoo!’s most recent announcement that three new universities are joining Carnegie...
From Putting People First