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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
CACM Article on DB/IR
In my rush to finish writing my book this month, I haven’t had much time for reading. But I did notice an article in the April ‘09 issue of Communications of the...
From The Noisy Channel
CACM Article on DB/IR
In my rush to finish writing my book this month, I haven’t had much time for reading. But I did notice an article in the April ‘09 issue of Communications of the...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
The primary and secondary benefits of e-networking
Social networking tools such as blogs, microblogs (Twitter), and Facebook, extend your communication abilities. The immediate benefits are threefold: Increased...
From insideHPC
Compete for access to the world
The DOE has recently announced its call for proposals for those seeking time on select supercomputers through the INCITE program. From the DOE HPC page For the...
From insideHPC
MATLAB acceleration for GPUs with
NVIDIA is offering a seminar today at 1 eastern (US) time that covers MATLAB acceleration for GPUs with Jacket from AccelerEyes: Get 10x-50x speed-ups in MATLAB...
From insideHPC
Sun tries to move past questions left by abandoned IBM
An article in NetworkWorld Middle East features comments by Sun’s hardware chief John Fowler aimed at getting in front of questions that potential buyers have about...
From insideHPC
New VP, new business for
Cray has been in the process of formalizing a new line of business for at least a couple of months. Its “custom engineering” business will help customers with specialized...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mindsets and Models and Risk
From Knowledge@Wharton: Re-thinking Risk Management: Why the Mindset Matters More Than the Model. Good piece on how to think about new architectures of risk."...
From Wild WebMink
Five Ideas To Get FOSS Into Governments
Why is it so hard to get governments (especially local government) to use open source software? Here are some ideas discussed during my keynote today in Oslo at...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dan Ariely on Buggy Moral Code
Dan Ariely author of Predictably Irrational in a Februry TED video talk on Why we think it's OK to cheat and steal (sometimes). He covers some of this same example...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shortcomings of the Pie Chart
In Seedmagazine: Understanding the shortcomings of the pie chart can help us make sense of and improve the emerging scientific aesthetic of the 21st century?...
From insideHPC
Platform opens cloud innovation center in
This week Platform Computing announced a new innovation center around its cloud software and services in Singapore Platform Computing, the leader in grid and cloud...
From insideHPC
Argonne takes more steps to manage energy
I talked to Pete Beckman of the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility back in December about a really simple, but interesting, idea that he had implemented to save...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Innovating in Emergent Markets
Tata and Unilever in emerging marketings, from Andrea Meyers' Working Knowledge. " ... How you get a product to market may be as important as what you get to market...
From Putting People First
Gathering User Ideas
Nokia’s IdeasProject website is intriguing. A content focused platform focused on high level discourse, it contains interviews with thought leaders in communications...
From insideHPC
Cooling your datacenter with outside air, and what
Found at Enterprise IT Planet’s Green IT news weekly roundup, two items of interest to us HPC types According to a survey by IDC, 68 percent of IT executives rated...
From insideHPC
Intel announces Q1, reports
A quickie from Intel, announcing Q1 results: Intel Corporation today reported first-quarter revenue of $7.1 billion, operating income of $670 million, net income...
From Putting People First
Organic interfaces workshop at CHI 2009
Carla Diana reports on Core77 at length about the highly conceptual CHI presentation/panel “Eek! A Mouse! Organic User Interfaces: Tangible, Transitive Materials...
From The Noisy Channel
DeWitt and Stonebraker vs. MapReduce, Round 2
A few months ago, database titans David J. DeWitt and Michael Stonebraker wrote
From insideHPC