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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 The Eponymous Pickle
Thinking About Metering
About a week ago the NYTimes had an article on Google's Power Meter Project. Jim Stogdill has a good followup article on O'Reilly Radar where he looks into more...
From insideHPC
Butte is Open for
Officials at the Rocky Mountain Supercomputing Center have announced that their new IBM supercomputer is ready for business. The new Butte, Montana supercomputing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
2008 Neuromarketing Podcasts
Professor Gemma Calvert of Neurosense, sends along a link to the podcast videos from the 2008 Neuromarketing event held in Warwick last September. Prof Gemma Calvert...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Blogging is part of my day job
I decided to copy Daniel Tunkelang’s idea and maintain a list of some people who read my blog. This is not meant to be an ego-boosting or name-dropping project....
From Putting People First
From the WIMP to the map interface
“Cellphones have changed how we communicate with others, and now they are changing how we think about information,” argues John Markoff of the New York Times. “With...
From Putting People First
Rethinking banking for the twenty-first century
MIT Media Lab has set up a Center for Future Banking. I guess they have some work to do. “Researchers at the Center for Future Banking, in collaboration with Bank...
From CSDiary
Time to Re-engage with DARPA
The end of the Tether era at DARPA has generated a lot of speculation about Tether’s successor — though nothing yet that seems all that credible. But what about...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
USACM Applauds Increased Investment in Research
Today President Barack Obama signed into law the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. This legislation provides billions in funding intended to spur economic...
From insideHPC
Universities challenged to power down for the
The Climate Savers Computing Initiative is organizing a challenge to encourage universities to “make a dent in pollution by powering down campus computers.” One...
From insideHPC
Bull reports 2008 results, posts
European HPC maker Bull reported its fiscal 2008 results on Friday, and probably popped a cork or two in the process. Revenues up, EBIT up, cash on hand up, and...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
How the CSTA Elections Work
It is election time for the CSTA Board of Directors. This year, the K-8 representative, two 9-12 representatives, the school district representative, the college...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Fate of Expertise after Wikipedia
Thoughtful article in Episteme on Wikipedia. Very good points about the differences of what mass collaboration produces vs that comes from typical editorial collaboration...
From Putting People First
Jeffrey Sachs on the transformational power of mobile devices in Africa
Jeffrey Sachs, the director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University and special adviser to the United Nations Secretary-General on the Millennium Development...
From Wild WebMink
Link roundup from the weekend 14-15 February
What a CEO SHOULD Be Fascinating insight into JAL's CEO reveals an attitude all too lacking in western leadership - what in wartime is called "leading from the10...
From Putting People First
Yochai Benkler on
Yochai Benkler, who is the Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard and faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Grove Virtual Learning Center
David Sibbet writes that Grove has established a virtual learning center in Second Life. The site includes descriptions and pictures. I can remember visitingDavid's...
From insideHPC
Rackable announces Q4, posts loss for Q and
Rackable announced results for Q4 and fiscal 2008 on Friday, and it wasn’t good GAAP net loss per share from continuing operations was ($0.61) for the fourth quarter...
From insideHPC
Terabit per second Ethernet may be
From Ars Technica Researchers from Australia, Denmark, and China have combined efforts to show the feasibility of terabit-per-second Ethernet over fiber-optic cables...
From insideHPC
ClearSpeed CEO resigns, company on hard
From a story at ElectronicsWeekly.com comes news that Tom Beese, the now former CEO of accelerator company ClearSpeed, has hit the bricks. Two weeks ago the company...
From insideHPC