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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 Computing Community Consortium Blog
Does Better Security Depend on a Better Internet?
Last week the New York Times printed an article by John Markoff entitled, Do We Need a New Internet? In the article, Markoff states, “…there is a growing belief...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Economy Engineering and Design
Am considering the New Economy Engineer. Interesting new site. Also in the same domain: The Entrepreneurial Engineer. Worlds can be engineered as well as designed...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Looking for Research Participants
As the chair of CSTA's Professional Development Committee, I recently received a request from Mara Saeli, a PhD student at the University of Eindhoven (in the Netherlands)...
From CERIAS Blog
Bad JavaScript, no CVE for you!
I'm flabbergasted to see Adobe release an advisory for a critical issue, using everything (BID & a "Vulnerability identifier") but a CVE identifier. I'm not surprised...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Growth Animation
In Visualizing Economics, an animation of the growth of Wal-Mart across the US over time. This would be good at shareholders meeting with music in the background...
From insideHPC
Kenworth
When one sees a large commercial truck roll down the highway, aerodynamic efficiency doesn’t usually come to mind.
From Putting People First
How to keep innovating
Microsoft Research Principal Scientist Bill Buxton outlines some counter-propositions to the idea of achieving mastery and the dogged pursuit of excellence: Always...
From Putting People First
Book: Innovating for and by users
Innovating for and by users Edited by Jo Pierson, Enid Mante-Meijer, Eug
From Putting People First
Does UX still matter in tough economic times
“Does UX still matter in tough economic times,” asks Temple University librarian Steven Bell on the blog “Designing Better Libraries”. “Promoting the user experience...
From insideHPC
University of Louisville Buys IBM
HPCWire: The University of Louisville has announced the delivery of a new IBM supercomputer.
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
NIST Presents Research Status on Voting Systems
In response to a request from the Election Assistance Commission (EAC), the National Institute of Standards and Technology conducted research on six specific areas...
From insideHPC
NMCAC and Dreamworks/Cerelink
The New Mexico Computing Applications Center has announced a collaboration with media firms DreamWorks Animation SKG and Cerelink DMG to explore the development...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Being Secure
Good straightforward piece on helping secure your online presence. Which has been on my mind lately.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Manufacturers and Word of Mouth
From Consumer Goods Technology: Manufacturers Underestimate Power of Word-of-Mouth. They overview a paper from Colloquy, which publishes research about market...
From The Eponymous Pickle
DecisionPower
Ken Karakotsios of DecisionPower, a long time correspondent of mine is in the midst of putting together a blog about simulation topics. I will report on thatAdplanit...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procter Ends Promotional Display Tagging
P&G has tested the use of RFID tags to confirm that promotional displays are being deployed. This article discusses their current ending of a test with Wal-Mart...
From insideHPC
Red Hat and Windows to support each others
Timothy Prickett Morgan reports from The Register this week that Red Hat and Microsoft have been coerced by customers into playing nice with each other Operating...
From insideHPC
Coding in the cloud, Mozilla
Michael Feldman has been reliving his past coding glory (not everyone knows he used to do compiler work for a living), as reflected in a blog post yesterday While...
From insideHPC