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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
RFID - Enabled Loyalty Program
An interesting example of using RFID tags to enable a loyalty program. Touchless systems are by their nature more convenient than scans.RFID-enabled in-store marketing...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Library of Congress symposium slides are up!
Slides from all speakers at the remarkable March 25th Library of Congress symposium “Computing Research that Changed the World:
From Computer Science Teachers Association
New AccessIT Web Design & Development Curriculum
The University of Washington and a team of high school web design teachers have put together some free curriculum that is well organized, up to date, and full of...
From insideHPC
SGI, Rackable, and the stalking
SGI sent out a letter to its support customers, which you can read here, that supplies a little more detail and a magic phrase that led to some interesting insight...
From Putting People First
Videos of presentations by Dan Saffer, Robert Fabricant and John Thackara
I just posted three videos of the recent Interaction09 conference on Core77: Dan Saffer - Attention Awareness for Interaction Designers 2009 Dan Saffer calls out...
From insideHPC
A note about the Rackable/SGI
Something to note about the Rackable/SGI deal announced this morning. Note that the title of SGI release is Rackable Systems Announces Agreement to Acquire Silicon...
From insideHPC
Rackable Systems to Acquire Silicon
From way out in left field comes a press release this morning jointly from Rackable and Silicon Graphics.
From Putting People First
Bill Buxton on thinking outside the box
Microsoft Research Principal Scientist Bill Buxton argues that “by thinking outside the parameters imposed by technology, executives and designers can build businesses...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Generate Your own Tree Clouds!
One of my research interest is tag-cloud drawing. The domain is a natural extension to the classical Graph Drawing problems. However, it is much more open-ended...
From Putting People First
Lying and the design of new technologies
The Wall Street Journal reports on work done by Intel’s Digital Home Group on people’s tendency to lie online and what the implications of lying are on the design...
From insideHPC
Wolfgang Gentzsch: when it comes to HPC conferences, smaller can be
Wolfgang Gentzsch and I were at HPCC in Newport, RI together last week. We exchanged email about his experience at this small annual gathering, and they really...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Placing Product Effectively
This problem has been thought about for over thirty years. I encountered it a number of times in the CPG enterprise. You have an amount of product you would"...
From Wild WebMink
JavaOne Bloggers Beer?
Anyone reading this coming to JavaOne and wanting me to arrange the usual Bloggers & Beer evening? Comment below! Oh, and remember early registration ends April...
From CSDiary
Testifying on the NITRD Act
This morning I will be one of four witnesses testifying before the Committee on Science and Technology of the US House of Representatives. The purpose of the hearing...
From insideHPC
Sun confirms additional 1,500 jobs
MercuryNews.com reported yesterday that Sun has confirmed additional job cuts this week Sun Microsystems, amid persistent reports of a possible acquisition by IBM...
From insideHPC
InsideTrack: stimulus money headed into HPC on the back of other
I was on the phone with Charlie Wuischpard, the CEO of Penguin Computing, today and got some interesting insight into possible HPC impact from President Obama’s...
From The Eponymous Pickle
GPS Tracking
Had a great conversation with Rob Schwartz. He is CEO of TrackAmerica. They have a number of quickly mountable, good value GPS tracking solutions for assets and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Reckitt-Benckiser Invests in Web
Noted Consumer Package Good maker, notable for its Lysol brand: From AdAge: " Reckitt-Benckiser will Shift $20 Million to Web From TV ... will cap off its fifth...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Common Knowledge
A blog: Common Knowledge, that discusses the issues behind a Science Commons.
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM