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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 insideHPC
Germany goes
Forschungszentrum Juelich (FZJ) has a press release (in German) announcing that the Gauss Center for Supercomputing (GCS) (a co-orperation between the German national...
From Putting People First
Interview with John Knight, user experience manager at Vodafone
John Knight, user experience manager at Vodafone’s UE Design Development team was interviewed by Giles Colborne of cxpartners. “One of the things I
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robin Wight and the Peacock's Tail
Met Robin Wight, president of the WCRS & Engine Group, at the recent Neurocon 2009. He passes along this fascinating video: An amazing theory called The Peacock's...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Make Recovery.Gov Web 2.0 Friendly
All eyes are on one piece of legislation currently being considered by Congress -- The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. This legislation is essentially a...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cognitive Computing Project
Cognitive Computing project, seeking to reverse engineer the mind. Quite an ambitious project. See also Dharmendra Mondha's cognitive computing blog. I had"...
From CSDiary
Tony Tether DARPA Directorship to End in February
A quick news flash: Emails are floating around indicating that Tony Tether’s tenure as the Director of DARPA will end this month, with the two week notice on February...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kindle 2
Amazon introduces the Kindle 2. Again, I do not want to drag around another device. Put it on my phone.
From insideHPC
Karlsruhe Selects
HPCWire: SiCortex, today, announced that they have gained the business of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology [KIT] in Germany.
From insideHPC
Lamar University Jumps on the
Lamar University announced today that a group of their faculty have been granted access to the Teragrid.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Report from Cracow Neurocon Panel
From the Neuroconnections 2009 meeting. The Neurocon panel in Cracow was run live on the Polish CNBC affiliate on Saturday. The object of the debate was to itemize...
From insideHPC
Sun Grid Engine Update
Sun’s HPC blog has posted a video from the Sun HPC Consortium the weekend before Supercomputing 2008.
From insideHPC
Roshydromet Weather Forecasting on
Russia’s Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring [Roshydromet] have procured a series of SGI machines in order to improve the precision...
From insideHPC
Voltaire Announces 40Gb/s Director
Voltaire has announced the latest addition to their Infiniband switching product line.
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Honesty is charisma
Honesty is charisma. Whenever you are honest, even if you are controversial, many people will respond positively to you.
From Putting People First
Dan Ariely on a new type of economy
IdeasProject, an excellent Nokia site, interviewed behavioural economist, MIT Media Lab contributor and best-selling author Dan Ariely. He said that web technologies...
From insideHPC
HPC seminar in
The HPC Watercooler points to a perfect opportunity to redeem those Sky Miles you’ve been hoarding: head north for HPC in Vancouver Our friends at HPCVL are sponsoring...
From insideHPC
Itanium upgrade
From Computerworld earlier this month Intel Corp. on Tuesday said it has delayed the release of the quad-core Tukwila chip, its next-generation 64-bit Itanium processor...
From insideHPC