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Future of Machine Intelligence
From The Eponymous Pickle

Future of Machine Intelligence

A report on the future of machine intelligence. What is now being called AGI ... artificial general intelligence. Contrary to what has been called narrow AI, which...

Andrews Corner: My Supercomputer Lied to
From insideHPC

Andrews Corner: My Supercomputer Lied to

Andrew Jones has once again published his monthly insight into all things HPC on ZDNet UK.

Microsoft Research publishes interviews with Bill Buxton and danah boyd
From Putting People First

Microsoft Research publishes interviews with Bill Buxton and danah boyd

The website of Microsoft Research seemed to have been redesigned recently and contains some nice interviews: Buxton putting design into MIX Bill Buxton of Microsoft...

Social Software
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Social Software

A colleague of mine, S

Twittering at
From insideHPC

Twittering at

While I can maintain the pace, I’m going to do live tweets from the HPCC sessions today. Follow the stream at twitter.com/insidehpc. For more related articles visit...

Sandy's Story - for Ada Lovelace DayGuest Blogger: Annemieke Craig, Deakin University, Australia
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing

Sandy's Story - for Ada Lovelace DayGuest Blogger: Annemieke Craig, Deakin University, Australia

As indicated in Barbara

Server
From insideHPC

Server

We’re having troubles after the move to the new server. A couple times yesterday the website stopped responding, and since I was on airplanes the site typically...

Mobile phones and the BOP in Washington, DC
From Putting People First

Mobile phones and the BOP in Washington, DC

The Washington Post reports on how homeless people in Washington DC use mobile phone, blogs and e-mail to stay on top of things. “Today, it’s not unusual for the...

Award for user-friendly design of wireless multi-room music system
From Putting People First

Award for user-friendly design of wireless multi-room music system

A few weeks ago the Sonos Multi-Room Music System, a wireless music system, which allows music-lovers to play all the music they want, was honoured with the international...

Bloom Concierge Cart Technology
From The Eponymous Pickle

Bloom Concierge Cart Technology

From SupermarketNews, this was a device I looked at a few years ago called the Concierge cart from Springboard Networks. This appears to be the first actual implementation...

Mellanox gives to make the world a better
From insideHPC

Mellanox gives to make the world a better

Not directly HPC-related, but we support the charitable efforts of those in our community. Found at HPCwire today, news that Mellanox is giving $160,000 to fourteen...

Secretary Chu makes ready for $1.2B spending spree in
From insideHPC

Secretary Chu makes ready for $1.2B spending spree in

Secretary of Energy Stephen Chu has announced plans to spend $1.2B of the $1.6B aimed at the DOE Office of Science by

Ideas for improving computer science
From insideHPC

Ideas for improving computer science

A post last week at the new (I think) ACM blog highlights how some of the ideas from a 2007 PCAST report on NITRD are being used by policy makers today to improve...

Nagoya University Goes with
From insideHPC

Nagoya University Goes with

Fujitsu Ltd. has announced that they have won a bid to provide the Information Technology Center at Nagoya University with a new supercomputer system.

More on IBM+Sun from
From insideHPC

More on IBM+Sun from

Joe Landman, who always brings a deep perspective to the business analysis of HPC goings on, commented yesterday on the latest news in the Sun/IBM possible merger...

P&G Site for the City
From The Eponymous Pickle

P&G Site for the City

P&G has launched a recruitment site, both for the company and the City of Cincinnati. Good idea for those out of the way Midwestern cities that I have come to...

ANSYS Exands HPC Capacity for Enhanced
From insideHPC

ANSYS Exands HPC Capacity for Enhanced

ANSYS announced today that they have expanded their in-house HPC systems in order to optimize the product development process.

Smart Phone to Become Universal Remote
From The Eponymous Pickle

Smart Phone to Become Universal Remote

In the NYT: The Universal Remote Dormant in Your Smartphone . In the 80s I recall seeing people having stacks of remotes on their couch arms. Then these wereone...

From Springenwerk Blog

Passenger and Ruby Enterprise Edition on Solaris 10

I recently had the pleasure of setting up REE and Passenger on Solaris 10. I set the server up using the ibm_db gem for the IBM DB/2 database. I'm not coveringMore...

Primates on Facebook
From The Eponymous Pickle

Primates on Facebook

Somwhat dated from the Economist, just brought to our attention: " ... That Facebook, Twitter and other online social networks will increase the size of human...
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