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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 insideHPC
Cray Forms Indian
Cray has announced a new wholly owned subsidiary in India. The senior management at Cray has felt for some time that the company needed to expand its footprint...
From insideHPC
NCAR Bill Signed by
Governor Dave Freudenthal of Wyoming has signed a bill into law that removes a potential bureaucratic bump in building the new National Center for Atmospheric Research...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Pscyh Angle of the Netflix Prize
The Netflix prize is a well known example of pattern recognition from a large database. $1,000,000 to anyone that can improve Netflix's movie rating system by at...
From Putting People First
Design thinking for the future at LIFT09
The session devoted to Design Thinking was my personal favourite of the entire 2009 LIFT conference. Beyond the engineers and business’ discourse about the future...
From Springenwerk Blog
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5 Regular Expressions Every Web Programmer Should Know - I’m Mike
From Putting People First
March-April issue of Interactions Magazine devoted to trust
More and more content of Interactions Magazine is becoming available online. The latest March-April issue is devoted to trust and “explores the idea of assurance...
From Putting People First
Consumers in a downturn: a new spending habit? (part 1)
The business channel of The Atlantic Online published this weekend the first of two articles by Grant McCracken on the implications of the recession on consumer...
From Putting People First
Industry trends in prototyping
Get an overview of the thought process and common strategies for generating prototypes from Dave Cronin, Director of Interaction Design at Cooper. Although applied...
From Putting People First
From Congo to Kathmandu, how mobiles have transformed the world
The Guardian published a special section on the role of mobile phones in emerging markets: Nice talking to you … mobile phone use passes milestone A UN report reveals...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Useful Sketch Tagging Examined
I recently mentioned the service called Sketchory, which contains 250K free-to-use sketches. Like the image on the right which I got when I asked for 'abstract'...
From Putting People First
Inspiring stories at LIFT09
The last day of the LIFT conference started off with a session devoted to inspiring stories from people with extraordinary projects and lives. Designer Matt Webb...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Trouble for In-Store Marketing?
Are more decisions being made at home? So says AdAge in a new post based on a survey. Trouble in Store for Shopper Marketing?. Survey: Recession-Hit ShoppersBased...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Physical Sciences May Have Modest Gains in 2009 Budget
On Wednesday the House passed a bill to cover spending for most federal agencies for the last six months of fiscal year 2009. The first six months were covered...
From insideHPC
Kraken Has Passed
The Cray XT5 supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Lab named ‘Kraken’ has officially been accepted by the National Science Foundation as being ready for production...
From Putting People First
Microsoft
Microsoft Office Labs is a group within Microsoft that tests ideas by building prototypes and gathering usage data to inform ongoing and future research and development...
From insideHPC
Ferrari Driving More than Sports
Ferrari is driving innovation in more than just its high performance sports cars these days.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pinker on Genomes
One of my favorite writers, Steven Pinker in the NYT: My Genome, My Self. " ... I had my genome sequenced and am allowing it to be posted on the Internet, along...
From Putting People First