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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 Computer Science Teachers Association
Pi Day Challenge
As head of CSTA's Professional Development Committee, I received the following message, which I thought might be of interest to many of you: My name is Matthew...
From insideHPC
Australia says world
An article featured in The Western Australian yesterday outlines the region’s hopes for winning the Square Kilometre Array deepspace telescope bid, and getting...
From insideHPC
YouTube video: cloud computing a disruptive
Found via AMDOpteron on Twitter (follow insideHPC), a YouTube video from the IDC Cloud Computing Forum in San Francisco with brief on camera thoughts from IDC,...
From insideHPC
Even supercomputers not yet close to the raw power of human
Scientific American has a blog post this week about the IEEE’s 125th anniversary event. During the event one of the scientists present commented on his DARPA-funded...
From insideHPC
Benmarking for HPC: focus on the whole
Short post on one of the Intel blogs about benchmarking in HPC, and the need to focus (or refocus, as the author frames it) on total application performance Want...
From Springenwerk Blog
FOWA Dublin 2009 Recap
I think there are 2 letters to sum up this event: OK. Content-wise, it was between OK and great. The organization of the event was terrible, though: The venue was...
From insideHPC
New HPC platform aimed at financial
Kuberre Systems announced a new HPC platform today aimed primarily at the financial services industry. The platform, called HANSA, bundles hardware and software...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sony TV Includes a Scanner
Storefrontbacktalk posts about a new Sony TV's remote which can act as a touchless RFID scanner. Nice idea.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tide T-Shirts for Disaster Relief
Buy a T shirt in the Loads of Hope program and provide proceeds for disaster relief and advertise the idea. The idea is going viral and seems to be working. I...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Universal Access to Knowledge?
See In O'Reilly Radar, by Linda Stone, about the recent settlement between Google and publishers regarding the scanning of books. There now appears to be some...
From Wild WebMink
Wednesday links on March 11
Lantana: Caroline Herring Flawless, dark, American folk music delivered with cool precision. One of my picks of SXSW this year.New York: Tax break for open source...
From insideHPC
Data Center World Day 1 links
Data Center Knowledge’s Rich Miller just posted a links roundup from day one of AFCOM’s Data Center World conference, with pointers to coverage and press releases...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Growing a Computer Science Requirement
Japan has taken the bold step of recognizing a need for all high school graduates to have a formal computing course and has modified the high school graduation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analytics Based Reasoning in Tough Economy
Register and Info here:Tomorrow at 10AM EDT: " ... IDC's Dan Vesset will present market research showing that increased analytic orientation leads to improved organizational...
From insideHPC
ScaleMP announces vSMP Foundation
ScaleMP announced a new version of vSMP today ScaleMP, a leading provider of virtualization solutions for high-end computing, is announcing version 2.0 of its flagship...
From Putting People First
Case study: gestural entertainment center for Canesta
Jennifer Bove, a former Interaction-Ivrea student, sent me a link to a case study on a gestural entertainment center that she and a team at Kicker Studio developed...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Best Buy Gets Results from Social Networks
Short piece on Best Buy and Social Networks: " ... the intent of the developers was to create a network that could help flatten the organization, promoting the...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Are your research papers telling original stories?
Life is multidimensional. Research papers should be multidimensional too! We should ask several interesting questions. We should give several nuanced answers. We...
From insideHPC
IBM
From The Register again, news of IBM’s new 8 Gb Fibre Channel solution, based on QLogic’s daughter card IBM is making the rounds this week talking up a new 8 Gb...
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