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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 …
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Pervasive launches new data-intensive computing
Pervasive just launched the first new product based on its DataRush data processing engine, about which I’ve written for HPCwire. The full release is posted at...
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HPC adoption conference
Found at HPCwire, news that research think tank RTI International is sponsoring a conference that addresses the business and innovation that need to be addressed...
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NCSA funded to build community of science education
This is a cool idea, and I’m glad that someone is being funded to do this. Found at NCSA’s web site The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)...
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New HPC-related
Found at ClusterMonkey: If you are interested in HPC Podcasts head on over to Research Computing and Engineering (RCE-Cast). Research Computing and Engineering...
From CSDiary
A Transition
The Computing Research Association (CRA) is one of the most important advocacy organizations for computing research. It promotes the cause of computing research...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Don Norman on Happy Design
Don Norman's March TED talk : "Three ways that good design makes you happy".
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NASDAQ to delist SGI
SGI has received news from the NASDAQ that trading of their stock is set to be suspended tomorrow. The company has requested hearing on the issue The Nasdaq Stock...
From Putting People First
SustainIT - a supplement worth reading
The Independent today introduced SustainIT, the first in a series of three monthly supplements on ICT and globalisation. Some of the articles in the supplement...
From insideHPC
H+L Architecture Named NCAR Design
H+L Architecture has been named the design firm for the new National Center for Atmospheric Research [NCAR] facility in Wyoming.
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Veloso Wins ACM SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award
The ACM SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award has been given to CMU Computer Science Professor Manuela Veloso. The award is given at the International Conference...
From The Eponymous Pickle
3D Patient Record Interface
A clever 3D patient record interface by IBM Research Zurich. Obvious in the sense that it uses a 3D manipulable image for something that is complex and 3D: the...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
ACM Turing Award Goes to Creator of Influential Innovations in Computer Software Design
MIT's Liskov, First U.S. Woman Ph.D. in Computer Science, Pioneered the Standard for Modern Programming Language and Software Reliability ACM, the Association...
From Putting People First
Tactical tech
Tactical Tech is an international NGO helping human rights advocates use information, communications and digital technologies to maximise the impact of their advocacy...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Skittles Marketing Experiment
A recent experiment by Mars using a number of Web 2.0 services on their site is nicely summarized by Paul Gillin: Skittles' Bold Social Media Experiment. The idea...
From Putting People First
An anthropologist gone techno
Jukka Jouhki (blog), an anthropologist and post-doc researcher at the Department of History and Ethnology at the University of Jyv
From Putting People First
Social media is here to stay
danah boyd, a Fellow at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, just joined Microsoft Research New England On 29 February, she gave her first...
From Apophenia
it's time for SXSW!!
After taking a break to finish my dissertation, I'm heading back to SXSW and I. Cannot. Wait. SXSW is one of my favorite-ist conferences evah. It's filled with...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Paper Water Bottles
In a conversation with the design company Brand-Image I was introduced to their design concept: the paper water bottle. An example at the right. Some true alternative...
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