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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 Wild WebMink
Twilight Zone
Just a reminder to everyone I have calls with that Summer Time (Daylight Savings) starts in Europe on the last Sunday of March and not today like it did in the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visual Think Map
Intriguing site: Visual Think Map. A nice set of examples of information design. " ... Exploring creative innovative modes of visual communication of information...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cable Targeting
Good short piece in the NYT Business section on increasing use of cable company ad targeting. This is likely to continue to expand.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Targeted Media
More word of targeted media using a system we originally helped design and test. Here in Progressive Grocer. These systems are usually installed first for shopper...
From insideHPC
Building multicore and cloud ready
Found at Multicoreinfo.com, a pointer to the first in a two-part series on designs principles that will lead to multicore- and cloud-ready applications Multicore...
From insideHPC
Intel invests in new HPC center in
This week Intel chairman Craig Barrett announced that Intel is beginning a 5 year collaboration in France for the construction of a new academic research facility...
From insideHPC
NVIDIA reveals plan to develop own x86
From a recent blog post by Michael Feldman at HPCwire “I think some time down the road it makes sense to take the same level of integration that we’ve done with...
From insideHPC
Science in the FY09
Peter Harsha over at the CRA’s Policy Blog has a detailed summary on science funding in the budget omnibus including funding for the agencies that traditionally...
From insideHPC
New Japanese plasma simulator in
Found at Cheer HPC, news that alongside the new Earth Simulator 2, Japan has put another super into operation. This one is a 77 TFLOPS Hitachi SR16000 system for...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robots Start an Evolution
Interesting piece, though it is not saying that the physical aspects of the robots are evolving, only the algorithms that drive them. When a robot starts to be...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dynamics of Being Sorry
From Knowledge@Wharton, a good essay on the power of being sorry for unforseen circumstances. Early on in my enterprise career I was told that I used 'sorry about...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Eponymous Numbers
Eponymous means, of course, something that is named after something else, usually a proper noun or person's name. I have explained this a number of times. Not...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Fixing Computer Science Teacher Certification
More than likely you wouldn't be reading this blog if you didn't feel passionately that computer science is an essential discipline in our high schools. Certainly...
From Putting People First
Nokia
Expanding Horizons is a quarterly publication aimed at ICT decision-makers in the private and public sectors. It explores the socio-economic benefits that mobile...
From Wild WebMink
Link Roundup on March 6
Mozilla and CyberMentors "The Internet is full of bullies, not predators" - This looks like a great way to do something practical to protect young people on the...
From Putting People First
The user experience of money: how interaction design can help
Alexa Andrzejewski of Adaptive Path reflects on the user experience of money: For anyone designing for consumer finance
From Apophenia
I want to evolve to not hear the cell phone
Whenever I'm in a public space where folks are blabbing away on their phones, I want to scream. Trains, cafes, busses... they all drive me batty. I'm dreading the...
From Putting People First
Microsoft Research's 'Technology for Emerging Markets' group
The Technology for Emerging Markets group at Microsoft Research India seeks to address the needs and aspirations of people in emerging-market countries, including...
From The Eponymous Pickle