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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 U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Federal Trade Commission Issues Proposed Breach Notification Rule
On April 16 the Federal Trade Commission issued a proposed rule requiring entities to notify consumers in the event that the security of their electronic health...
From The Eponymous Pickle
WolframAlpha Briefing
Attended the WolframAlpha briefing today, which consisted of an overview by Steven Wolfram and his demonstration of his very ambitious interactive knowledge system...
From Apophenia
"Living and Learning with Social Media"
Over the weekend, I gave a talk at the Penn State Symposium for Teaching and Learning with Technology. I have made a crib of the talk available for anyone who might...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Quantum databases: what are they good for?
Hu et al. just posted An efficient quantum search engine on unsorted database. They refer to an older paper by Patel (2001), Quantum database search can do without...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nokia and Augmented Reality
Short piece on augmented reality that Nokia is developing for cell phones. The potential retail applications are considerable. I also am looking for the inclusion...
From The Eponymous Pickle
So What is a Quick Trip?
Herb Sorensen of TNS Sorensen covers the topic of a quick trip in grocery retail in a recent post. This is covered in more detail in his forthcoming book: Inside...
From The Noisy Channel
Google Similar Images: A Glitch?
After my post yesterday about Google’s new image similarity search, a colleague sent me this link: Oops! But, more importantly, it argues strongly that Google...
From The Noisy Channel
Google Similar Images: A Glitch?
After my post yesterday about Google’s new image similarity search, a colleague sent me this link: Oops! But, more importantly, it argues strongly that Google...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-04-21
The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison This was the first book I read about Oracle. (tags: Oracle Book Amazon...
From insideHPC
Reg open for accelerators in HPC
A quickie from NCSA Registration is now open for the Symposium on Application Accelerators in High-Performance Computing (SAAHPC’09), which will be held July 27...
From insideHPC
SiCortex revises green performance index, intros
Today HPC vendor SiCortex revised its Green Computing Performance Index (GCPI, which we first covered when it was announced back in November) based on what it referred...
From The Noisy Channel
Advertorials Preferred To Ads?
From “Brand Mentions Preferred over Ads” in eMarketer: Compared with banner ads, pop-up ads, e-mail offers and sponsored links, articles that include brand information...
From The Noisy Channel
Advertorials Preferred To Ads?
From “Brand Mentions Preferred over Ads” in eMarketer: Compared with banner ads, pop-up ads, e-mail offers and sponsored links, articles that include brand information...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Paul Gillin on RSS Feeds
Some quarters have been talking about Twitter replacing syndication feeds like RSS. Paul Gillin makes the case that they are still of value. I agree.
From Apophenia
What are your information needs? (Knight Commission seeks feedback)
What information do Americans need to accomplish the personal goals and to be effective citizens in our democracy? How are they getting their news and information...
From insideHPC
NASA Ames moves from Sun to SpectraLogic, cuts silos by
Found at Computerworld.com NASA’s Ames Research Center, announced today that it has consolidated its tape libraries from 10 silos to two, allowing it to reclaim...
From insideHPC
NVIDIA releases OpenCL driver for early access
Yesterday NVIDIA announced the release of an OpenCL driver and SDK for developers in its early access program (we’ve covered OpenCL before in lots of places; here...
From The Noisy Channel
Google: News Timeline
The other day, when I was blogging about Google’s news cluster timelines, I lamented their lack of a unified approach towards visualizing news over time. Their...
From The Noisy Channel