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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 U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
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...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Brand IP Interview
Interview with Keith Harrison, Supply Chain Strategist at P&G, A lesson in brand Intellectual Property. How does a supply chain strategist think about brand intellectual...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shopportunity Book
Read Kate Newlin's 2006 book: Shopportunity: How to be a Retail Revolutionary. She is a former president of Faith Popcorn's company: Brainreserve. She also worked...
From insideHPC
Sun stock up in Europe on news that IBM in talks to buy
Joe at Scalability.org points us to a story in the NYT with news that IBM is talking with Sun about buying their company. Sun Microsystems soared in European trading...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Linkedin Advice
A blog of practical Linkedin advice, in general of the more advanced kind.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Costs of Print vs Online
Economic comparison: Printing The NYT Costs Twice As Much As Sending Every Subscriber A Free Kindle. Printing will not go away, but will it exist only in much smaller...
From CSDiary
CMU Algorithm Enables Chain of 10 Kidney Transplants
Using an algorithm developed by a CMU computer science research team, a chain of 10 (and counting) kidney transplants has been made possible. The team consist of...
From Apophenia
a random act of kindness
Due to poor planning, G and I were on different flights back to Boston from SXSW. I was already booked on the early flight and had already been assigned my upgrade...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Enhances Private Label
From the AP, Wal-Mart introduces a number of new private label brands, refreshes others. In general, private label brands are much more profitable to retailers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Virtual World Data Environments
Something I had explored since well before virtual worlds were common. The idea was that you could explore data by flying through a 3D space. There were several...
From insideHPC
Warning for HPC companies: don
Mike Bernhardt has posted an insightful article on his communication company
From Putting People First
Nokia
Julian Bleecker of Nokia calls it a “short essay”, but “Design Fiction: A Short Essay on Design, Science, Fact and Fiction” is really a 97 page book. “Extending...
From Putting People First
Multi-touch looks set to kill the mouse
Darren Waters, technology editor at the BBC, reports from Austin, Texas on the future of touch: “The success of the iPhone has given rise to a new grammar of touch...
From Putting People First
Innovation trickles in a new direction
Business Week reports on how some companies like General Electric, Nokia, and others are reversing the traditional process where products are created in rich nations...
From Putting People First
Discussing the principles for a digital social enterprise
Over the last few months, Franco Papeschi and Tory Dunn of the Vodafone User Experience team have been doing work on a set of principles and guidelines to support...
From insideHPC
Cloudera launched to offer commercialized
You might recall that Hadoop is the open source application built from the few papers Google engineers published on their MapReduce infrastructure for dealing with...
From insideHPC
Computer science enrollment up for first time in six
The results of a recent study by the CRA are out, and the news is good for computer science The number of undergraduate students majoring in computer science significantly...
From insideHPC
Computing research that changed the world
From the CCC’s blog Ed Lazowska and Peter Lee on November 4 proposed a brainstorming exercise to identify about a dozen game-changing advances in computing research...
From CSDiary
CS Enrollments Are Up, According to Latest CRA Taulbee Report
The latest edition of the CRA Taulbee Report has just been released, and it confirms what we have been seeing in our CS application trends here at CMU and other...
From Putting People First