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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
Penguin Releases Scyld Clusterware
From Penguin last week Penguin Computing today announced the immediate availability of the latest version of its high performance computing (HPC) cluster management...
From insideHPC
US stimulus final makes investments in science,
From a press release issued by CRA Members of the computing research community today praised Congress for passing an economic stimulus package that includes substantial...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Smell Sensory Future
Roger Dooley gives a good overview of the Whiff!: The Revolution of Scent Communications in the Information Age book by Russell Brumfield and James Goldney. I...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
What is a 'Better Internet'?
Ellen Zegura is Professor and Chair of Computer Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She writes to us today in her role as chair of the NetSE Council...
From Putting People First
Forthcoming Rosenfeld Media books
Rosenfeld Media, which is run by Lou Rosenfeld, publishes short, practical, and useful books and webinars on user experience design. Here are their forthcoming...
From CERIAS Blog
Do we need a new Internet?
Short answer: " Almost certainly, no." Longer answer: The blogosphere is abuzz with comments on John Markoff's Saturday NT Times piece, Do We Need a New Internet...
From CSDiary
Gallery of Greats
This one is for our alumni and other friends who haven’t been on campus for a while. During one of the celebrations in honor of Ed Clarke’s winning of the ACM Turing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hackers Among the Amish
Good Kelly post, have only experienced the Amish from a distance and from the highways seeing all those rare clotheslines in a modern age. Best point from the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Extending the Brand
Jonathan Baskin looks at the extension of the Mr. Clean Brand. Why not? A very stong brand with a great image that has slipped over the years. If only we could...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Virtual Worlds for Business Book
This looks to be good: " ... Nick from Clever Zebra here. After some pushing from friends and colleagues, I'm pleased to tell you that the Virtual Worlds for Business...
From Wild WebMink
OpenSolaris - Changing The World Another Way
A rather unusual project just started in the OpenSolaris community. It's the OpenSolaris Lending Project. Instead of directly working on the code for OpenSolaris...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Focus Group: The Game
Great idea, but I continue to see few groups succeeding at it. A carefully tailored game can be expensive to produce:How World of Warcraft Promotes InnovationThis...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Agile Design Podcast
Podcast on optimizing agile design. By UXDesign, via IBM Design.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Automating Data Visualization
Nice little instructive, technical piece:Automating Data Visualization with Ruby and Graphviz I often have the need to visualize data from the enterprise resource...
From Wild WebMink
Link roundup for the week ending February 14
OpenOffice.org Conference 2009 Registered OO.o members get to pick the location for the annual conference, and this year there are some absolutely fantastic choices...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft's Retail Stores
Prof Peter S. Fader of Wharton looks at Microsoft's plans to set up some retail stores, and makes some suggestions." ... One of the biggest differences between...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Intel Investing in Social Networking
They say why in this short article. Also I have heard 'Twitter' used several times in the non technical press in the past few days, don't recall hearing about...
From Putting People First
Playful augmented objects
Touch is a research project, led by Timo Arnall, that investigates Near Field Communication (NFC), a technology that enables connections between mobile phones and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
FTC Says Self-Regulate Behavioral Marketing
In Adage, see also the complete US Federal Trade Commission news release and report. " ... The Federal Trade Commission seemed to give a major victory to marketers...
From Putting People First