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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
Cellphone Location or Spying?
Google Latitude has brought it up again ... more on cell phone location.
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Sim visits 'Go Girls Go for IT' in AustraliaGuest Blogger: Annemieke Craig, Australia
The last years of secondary school are important for thinking about what careers students can consider. Declining number of females studying computing at tertiary...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Academic applied research is
While pure theory is wasteful, bringing applied research to academia is equally wasteful! Applied research seeks to produce applied results. These results are...
From insideHPC
Cray announces Q4 and 2008 results, posts paper
Cray announced its financial results for both Q4 and its fiscal year ended December 31. For 2008, Cray reported revenue of $282.9 million and a net loss of ($31...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of Newspapers
Nick Carr examines the future of newspapers: Smaller, tighter, hybrids, micropayments or just mostly gone?
From insideHPC
NVIDIA Releases Q4
NVIDIA has released its financial results for the fourth quarter of FY2009.
From Putting People First
The Internet of Things and mobile devices
Ajit Jaokar, founder of futuretext, just wrote a somewhat technical article on his blog where he discusses the basic ideas and significance of the Internet of Things...
From Putting People First
Book: The Language of Things
The Language of Things: Understanding the World of Desirable Objects by Deyan Sudjic Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co. (June 1, 2009) Hardcover: 224 pages Description...
From Putting People First
Becoming a customer experience-driven business
Peter Merholz, founding partner and president of Adaptive Path, now writes the “Experience Matters” column for the revamped HarvardBusiness.org where he tries “to...
From Putting People First
Designing people-centred policy: how can user centred design help public services?
Nick Marsh of Engine Service Design contemplates how user-centred design can help public services. How do we enable patients with chronic conditions to take care...
From Springenwerk Blog
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Rails versus Django · SuperJared.com I attempted to gather my thoughts into some elaborate explanation, delving into the subtleties and intricacies surrounding...
From insideHPC
Details on Intel
Pointer from Multicoreinfo.com to an article at Ars Technica providing a peek at some of the details of Intel’s forthcoming 8-core chip At an ISSCC session Monday...
From insideHPC
SGI strikes
SGI doesn’t coordinate with me, of course, but I can’t help but consider the timing of their most recent press release in the context of the RNA Networks announcement...
From insideHPC
DARPA
The CRA Policy Blog posts news that Anthony Tether, head of DARPA during the second President Bush’s administration, is resigning on the 20th of this month. He...
From insideHPC
HPCwire on SGI
Have you found yourself asking, “What the heck is non-GAAP and why does SGI report it?” Ask no more, friends. Instead, click on over to HPCwire and read the article...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Review: The Public Domain
Just finished on a long flight: James Boyle's: The Public Domain, Enclosing the Commons of the Mind. Available for buying, reading or downloading online free....
From insideHPC
NASA Ames Director Named Best of
The Director of the NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California has been named the 2009 Federal Laboratory Consortium Laboratory Director of the Year...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Dynamics of Wikipedia
The WikiDashboard is a system that analyzes the social dynamics of a Wikipedia entry. Good overview article about it in Tech Review. By examining the social dynamics...
From Putting People First