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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
Peter+Trudy
Peter and Trudy Johnson-Lenz are consultants who worked with Procter & Gamble while we were working with the Institute for the Future in the 90s. They did an excellent...
From Springenwerk Blog
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no such file to load — sqlite3 on Rails 2.2 : RubyHead
From The Eponymous Pickle
Comparing Google Knol and Wikipedia
Not much competition so far. Also minimal editing in Knol has led to dropping quality. Can it survive? There is still not much critical mass or attempt at basic...
From CSDiary
Back from the Inauguration
Well, my attempts to live-blog from the Inauguration fizzled. The signal strength was usually very good but actually getting bits transmitted reliably from my iPhone...
From insideHPC
AMD to Cut 1,100 and Slash
AMD announced last Friday that they will soon cut 1,100 positions in an effort to reduce costs.
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Observations from New Zealand
My husband, Dr. Mark Guzdial, and I are at the ACSW 2009 conference in Wellington, New Zealand. Dr. Wayne Mapp, the Minister for Research, Science, and Technology...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kraft IPhone Application a Success
It appears that the Kraft IFood Application, which I have used and reviewed, is a success, see this AdAge article: " ... One of the coolest apps on the iPhone isn't...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Emotions killing your intellectual productivity
I have written much about intellectual productivity on this blog. If we were machines running mechanical tasks, our productivity would be high. Alas, we are human...
From insideHPC
Open Education Cup deadline draws
Reader Terrence Liao emailed me with a reminder that the deadline for the Open Education Cup is drawing near The deadline (February 2, 2009) for submitting content...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smarter World
IBM Video: Tale of a Smarter Planet on a smarter world, emphasizing global sensor interconnectivity and analytics to provide intelligence. Well done. Very high...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Paying the Turk for a Post
In the news this weekend has been the enlistment of fake reviews for the electronics company Belkin. Similar to pay-per-post, but here the going in assumptionastroturfing...
From insideHPC
Mellanox IB Silicon on TYAN Server
Mellanox has announced that its ConnectX 40Gb/s Infiniband adapters have been selected for Landed-on-Motherboard [LOM] applications across TYAN’s S7017 server motherboard...
From insideHPC
Will NCSA be stiffed on state funds to house Blue
Now, this is interesting, in a “gee I’m glad that’s not my problem” kind of way. Article on Friday of last week in the Chicago Sun-Times that gives broader voice...
From insideHPC
Budget set for Japan
The Cheer HPC blog (a new blog that covers HPC happenings in Japan) has news from the Asian Technology Information Program website about the budget for Japan’s...
From insideHPC
New HPC services, hosting firm announced in
UK-based EigenForge Limited came out of the closet, press release in hand on Monday of this week. EigenForge will focus in three areas of business 1) Fully Managed...
From insideHPC
Digging into Data challenge announced, first deadline March
From HPCwire Friday Today, a new, international competition called the Digging into Data Challenge was announced by four leading research agencies: the Joint Information...
From insideHPC
UK Met Office super found to have a black
The TimesOnline ran a story last week about the UK Met Office’s new
From CSDiary
Waiting in Line
First blog from the Inauguration. The crowds are HUGE. Even for those of us with seated tickets, the lines for security screening are more than a mile long....
From insideHPC
House Democrats have innovation on their
The outstanding Computing Research Policy Blog has an analysis of what the Democrats propose to do with respect to science and computing to stimulate the economy...
From Putting People First