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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 Putting People First
The Economist on the end of the
The Economist argues that the demise of a popular but unsustainable business model now seems inevitable: The idea that you can give things away online, and hope...
From Putting People First
Phone designers to improve reality
Rik Myslewski of The Register reports on augmented reality on mobile devices: Future phones will recognize buildings and people by sight and replace reality with...
From Putting People First
Good design at Metropolis
The March issue of Metropolis is focused on products with the theme of Good Design. Several articles are fitting quite well with the topic of this blog: What...
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Google
In a Q&A, user experience director Irene Au explains to Business Week how Google can manage design and consistency in its traditionally bottoms-up culture “As Google...
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Mobile phones: the silver bullet to bridge the digital divide?
In a long post Roxanna Samii reports on her blog on the role of the mobile phone in developing countries, and more in particular on the Gash Barka region in Eritrea...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Educating NITRD
As far as obscure government acronyms go, NITRD is a pretty good one. It stands for the National Information Technology Research and Development program. This program...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Data Visualization Reinventing Online Storytelling
Nice AdAge piece about the topic. I think that this can be taken further than just making data accessible, but also making it more valuable by making it interactive...
From insideHPC
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Hello everyone. We’ve been busy as beavers here at insideHPC HQ, and we’ve got a lot of things coming for you in the next few months. A facelift, some new content...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google and WPP Fund Neuromarketing Work
The post includes other links and brings up ethical concerns. They have been working on eyetracking for years. Have seen impressive presentations on that work...
From insideHPC
Fault tolerance workshop getting underway
Dan Katz at Louisiana State University sent me a note this morning letting us know that the TeraGrid’s 2009 Fault Tolerance Workshop, “Fault Tolerance for Extreme...
From insideHPC
Sun sells new systems in Australia, billed as southern hemisphere
insideHPC’s man down under sent us a note today letting us know that winner in the competition for new supers at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology and the Australian...
From insideHPC
Platform Computing Announces New Cluster Management
Platform Computing has announced the latest addition to its cluster management tool chain.
From insideHPC
University of Manitoba Announces HPC
The University of Manitoba has announced that they will build a new high performance computing facility.
From insideHPC
Rackable ready to run hot, innovates on power
Rackable has announced a new scale out computing solution that runs at temps up to 104 degrees F, and moves to per-cabinet (instead of per-server or per-blade)...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Outline of Predictably Irrational
An outline of Dan Ariely's book: Predictably Irrational, which I previously reviewed. Via the Noisy Channel. Nicely done.
From insideHPC
SC09 announces suite of focus
This week SC09 announced (warning, PDF) the focus areas for its technical program. This year the conference is placing special emphasis on biocomputing, sustainability...
From insideHPC
Cray launches new XT5m midrange
At a workshop today co-hosted by Cray and the High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS) in Stuttgart, Cray announced a new midrange line of supercomputers...
From CSDiary
What Makes a Top-10 CS Department?
I’ve just returned from a visit to KAIST, the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, in Daejeon, South Korea. As far as “big government bets” go, KAIST...
From Computer Science Teachers Association