Communications of the ACM
Refine your search:
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 Daniel Lemire's Blog
Skip the Ph.D., go straight to research
Satpalparmar got bad grades from an unknown university. He wants to become a researcher. And he asks me for advice. I got good grades and a Ph.D. from one of the...
From Putting People First
Service thinking
The UK service design consultancy live|work has published an excellent manifesto on service thinking: “We have identified three key service imperatives that must...
From insideHPC
Andrew
Our friend Andrew Jones has published his latest HPC-centric piece for ZDnet/UK.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Search at Kimberly-Clark
Short overview. Enterprise search is an interesting problem. In part because few enterprise documents are linked the way Web posts are. So the prioritization...
From insideHPC
U of Toronto to Build IBM
The University of Toronto and IBM are expected to announce plans to build the fastest supercomputer in Canada.
From insideHPC
OSC Expanding Glenn
The state of Ohio’s controller board recently approved a request from the Ohio Supercomputing Center [OSC] totaling $4 million.
From Putting People First
David Orban on the spime innovations and its dilemmas
David Orban, founder & chief evangelist of WideTag, Inc. (OpenSpime) and advisor to the newly announced Singularity University, recently spoke at TechnoArk in Switzerland...
From Putting People First
RCA Design Interactions
Matt Jones writes about a short project he worked on last November with the students on the Design Interactions course at the RCA in collaboration with Vodafone’s...
From Putting People First
IDEO
On April 1, IDEO founder David Kelley will be awarded the Edison Achievement Award by the Thomas Edison Papers at Rutgers University for his
From Springenwerk Blog
A Weekend of OpenSocial at Google in Mountain View
I got an email this week from Max Marmer, on of the co-organizers for the weekend apps event this February 20-22 at the Googleplex in Mountain View. Since I'vecontact...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On-Line Graphical Facilitation
Friend David Sibbet describes work he is doing to demonstrate the state of using visualization to run online meetings at upcoming VizThink meeting. Will be a "...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Text to Speech
A nice demonstration of unconstrained English text-to-Speech from IBM Labs. I gave it the classic 'ice cream' example and it was not quite able to speak it differently...
From insideHPC
GPU-HMMER
My pal Joe at Scalable Informatics (during the day, and scalability.org during the late nights he keeps) sent me an email with news of an NVIDIA CUDA extension...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Great K-12 Outreach Videos Now Available
In the two years, CSTA has launched a number of programs to help college and university faculty and staff in their K-12 outreach efforts. One of the most successful...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Latitude
Google Latitude will let you see where your friends are on Google Maps. Newly launched, soon to be available for IPhone.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Finding a Job
From Guy Kawasaki's blog: Ten Ways to Use Linkedin to Find a Job. Mostly common sense, but worth a read if you are in the market.
From insideHPC
Book review: Principles of Parallel
In case you don’t read the sidebar (you really should, you know), I’ve written a review of Calvin Lin and Larry Snyder’s relatively new book, “Principles of Parallel...
From insideHPC
Folding for
My pals at NVIDIA sent me an email today letting me know about a special way this month that you can take part in the fight against cancer. Scott Sherman’s 13 year...
From insideHPC
SiCortex matriculates at
(No, I used it right. I looked it up.) Today HPC vendor SiCortex announced that they’ve sent their boy to college, old world style The SiCortex system at the University...
From The Eponymous Pickle