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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
Psych of Twitter
I have blogged for years, conversed on IRC, run e-mail lists and chat groups. Twitter is the first method I have seen where there was a severe limitation of expression...
From insideHPC
Sun
Forbes has an interesting video detailing a few of the high points in Sun’s technological history.
From insideHPC
NITRD testimony before House S&T
Melissa Norr at the CRA Policy Blog gives an excellent overview of yesterday’s testimony before the House S&T committee on the NITRD Act of 2009 (which hasn’t been...
From insideHPC
Rensselaer Announces New VP of
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has announced they have named a new vice president of research.
From insideHPC
NVIDIA graduate fellowships in visual
Late last week NVIDIA announced that it is funding 10 new graduate fellowships to study the use of GPUs in computing under its 8-year old fellowship program More...
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TACC deploys new data intensive computing
Found at HPCwire “Corral,” a system for data-intensive computing and storage, is the newest resource to be deployed by the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC)...
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Intel charter member of new Consortium on Digital
Late last week energy research company New Energy Finance announced the charter members of a new organization started to develop a better understanding of what...
From insideHPC
Cilk Performance
CilkArts has just announced a new tool bundled with its Cilk++ version 1.0.2 release.
From The Eponymous Pickle
More Alpha Hints
Stephen Wolfram talks to Rudy Rucker on his upcoming Alpha release. The work has gotten lots of interest from people like myself who have had long-time interest...
From insideHPC
Week in review, Nehalem in the HPC
If you don’t regularly check in with HPCwire, my weekly features went up late last week. First up is the fast and furious weekly update, featuring the HPC profession’s...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sticker Based Contactless
Now more than two years ago we saw presentations by vendors pushing contactless payment in smart cards and cellphones. At the time I brought up the fact thatIn...
From insideHPC
In time of turmoil, Sun ramping up HPC
Sun’s Marc Hamilton wrote on his blog last week about changes lined up for the HPC team there Later this month, we will be announcing the newest upgrades to the...
From insideHPC
Tape still greenest storage
At least according to this article at Enterprise Systems. And as interest grows in green supercomputing (at the least for minimizing the disruption of extreme power...
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Capturing a master node with MS HPC Cluster
Not sure if this post is too deep to be interesting to more than a few of you, but thought I’d at least point to it. If you’ve ever asked yourself “How do I capture...
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Sun board rejects IBM bid, just negotiation or is the whole thing
This is being reported in several places, but I like the Wired version which you can find here The merger of IBM and Sun Microsystems appears to be coming apart...
From Putting People First
Nokia
Two new interviews on Nokia’s IdeasProject: Social media may have unforeseen limits John Jordan, a pathbreaking tech consultant and academic, measures social technologies...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Modeling Financial Meltdowns
See Ken Karakotsios's work on modeling financial meltdowns. Great example of using simulation economic models while encouraging collective input:" ... This is the...
From Putting People First
The rise of the mobile divides
Rich Ling is a sociologist at the Telenor research institute and a visiting professor at the IT University of Copenhagen, who is particularly interested in understanding...
From Wild WebMink
Sunday Link Round-Up on April 5th
HADOPI Law Passed - by 12 Votes to 4 Exactly how this can be quorate and just for creating a national law that will offer private business the power to cut citizens...
From Putting People First