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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
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
32nm on track at
Multicoreinfo.com points us to this story at the EE Times Despite recent layoffs and fab closings, Intel Corp. remains on track to deliver its first 32nm processors...
From insideHPC
HiPC coming to
From HPCwire The 16th annual IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC 2009) will be held in Cochin, India, during Dec. 16-19, 2009. It...
From insideHPC
Senate: science and computing doing ok so
Peter Harsha at the excellent Policy Blog of the CRA reports on some of the twists on the way to the US Senate’s version of the stimulus bill becoming law. $1.2B...
From Putting People First
Why computers can
MIT researchers argue that computers need to become as easy to use as those yellow sticky notes. Office workers are like electricity: When they want to get something...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Lets Simulate Everything
These articles give one the impression that general simulation is simple. Microsoft has been pushing the idea of virtual reality worlds. I like the idea but always...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Scent Delivery Kiosks for Women
Face recognition in retail, see also related recent post.Though there has been much improvement in face recognition, they are going to make mistakes. Another example...
From Putting People First
UX Week 2008 videos
Over the last months, Adaptive Path has been uploading videos of their latest UX Week that took place in August 2008. Donald Norman conversing with Adaptive Path...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Growing Your Own Indoor Air
" ... A presentation delivered this week at the TED 2009 conference demonstrates how you can
From The Eponymous Pickle
Emotions, Advertising and Consumer Choice
From the Neuroconnections 2009 meeting. I am running a panel debate on the hopes and threats of work underway today .... I will post a number of position statements...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Attention Trust
Attention Trust. I was reminded of this organization in my recent reading of Stephen Baker's The Numerati. They let you manage the value of your personal data...
From Computer Science Teachers Association