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Ethnography and the In-Home Interview.
From The Eponymous Pickle

Ethnography and the In-Home Interview.

Fascinating piece on the the use of in-home interviews by Tesco's Fresh&Easy. " ... did Tesco grasp the method they were using? There is a distressing habit these...

Gut Feelings: Intelligence of the Unconscious
From The Eponymous Pickle

Gut Feelings: Intelligence of the Unconscious

Gerd Gigerenzer is the director of the Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition at the Max Planck Institute. I have been reading his 2007 book: Gut Feelings:...

The word of the day is
From insideHPC

The word of the day is

I freaking love this story, from the UK’s Webuser site. A supercomputer used to predict which words may soon fall out of common use in the English language. The...

Asian
From insideHPC

Asian

The Top500 list started it all, and then came the Russian Top50. Now there is an Asian Top500. Why the new list? ince 1993, www.TOP500.org has taken the initiative...

One million for the
From insideHPC

One million for the

CPU hours, that is. From a release posted at HPCwire earlier this week: The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) in collaboration with the Institute...

Fusion-IO: a little bit of Woz and a lot of
From insideHPC

Fusion-IO: a little bit of Woz and a lot of

CNet News ran a feature yesterday about Fusion-IO, about whom we have previously written. Steve Wozniak joined Fusion-IO as its chief scientist recently, at least...

ISC
From insideHPC

ISC

Found at HPCwire this am, news that the 2009 program for ISC (in Hamburg this time, a lovely city) is set: In addition to world-renowned keynote speakers, ISC’09...

Dan Reed on why he joined
From insideHPC

Dan Reed on why he joined

The day before yesterday the always interesting Dan Reed spent a few minutes writing on his blog about what motivated his most recent career choice What I have...

Chippewa Falls Seymour Cray
From insideHPC

Chippewa Falls Seymour Cray

The Chippewa Falls Museum of Industry and Technology has opened an exhibit entitled: “Seymour Cray Supercomputers.”

Link roundup to February 26
From Wild WebMink

Link roundup to February 26

2009 Elections at OpenSolaris.org Take a good look at the dates, then consider if you should be a candidate. And please read the new, simplified Constitution and...

Morphological Neuromarketing
From The Eponymous Pickle

Morphological Neuromarketing

In today's New York Times, an interesting case study on a Neuromarketing method used by US snack goods manufacturer Frito-Lay, which used the morphology (structure...

Why It is Time To Get Political
From Computer Science Teachers Association

Why It is Time To Get Political

In the last year, CSTA has put s great deal of effort into developing a strong advocacy arm for CSTA and there are times when I wonder if this is a good use of....

Dealing with Reliability
From The Eponymous Pickle

Dealing with Reliability

Can you rely on services like Gmail? Or the Web? Sobering thoughts.

Report from the UPCRC Illinois
From insideHPC

Report from the UPCRC Illinois

Clay Breshears was at the 12 Feb UPCRC Illinois Summit meeting earlier this month, and writes about it on Intel’s blogs This was a progress report of various research...

TotalView
From insideHPC

TotalView

My post about Microsoft’s DreamSpark program yesterday didn’t gather any response from from the giant of Redmond, but it did get TotalView’s attention. They sent...

Reg opens for PRACE symposium in
From insideHPC

Reg opens for PRACE symposium in

Full of Euro love this morning…just a quick note that registration is now open for the upcoming DEISA PRACE Symposium 2009 DEISA, the Distributed European Infrastructure...

AMD updates on
From insideHPC

AMD updates on

Got an email from AMD late last night letting me know that AMD would be providing an update on Istanbul today, this follows news earlier this week that AMD is getting...

EuroPVM/MPI
From insideHPC

EuroPVM/MPI

For my pals across the Atlantic, and those on this side with passports and itchy travel accounts, EuroPVM/MPI 2009 just announced its call for papers. In case you...

Cray uses strong balance sheet buy back drowning
From insideHPC

Cray uses strong balance sheet buy back drowning

Now, this is the kind of news that you only get from insideHPC. I was trolling the SEC filings for our HPC companies, as I am wont to do, when I came upon Cray’s...

Digital Coupons on the Rise
From The Eponymous Pickle

Digital Coupons on the Rise

Good Financial Times Piece, mentions P&G, Kimberly Clark. It is inevitable that we see more of this kind of play. One example, Ecrio's Mobeam system.
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