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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
Bayes and Business Intelligence
A very well one piece on Bayesian modeling and Business Intelligence. Now part 1, and just published part 2. Anyone that does BI should understand the basics...
From insideHPC
Intel Parallel Studio
Intel’s Parallel Studio, about which I wrote in this article for HPCwire, is now available in beta. From Intel Intel Parallel Studio, a suite of development tools...
From insideHPC
Cloud computing in plain
Rich at Sun’s HPC Watercooler went movie diving at YouTube, and came back with a gem. “Cloud computing in plain english” does a good job explaining cloud computing...
From insideHPC
Sun HPC development tools
Our buddies at Sun’s HPC Watercooler have posted info on a new webinar from Sun HPC Development Solutions: Sun Studio and HPC Clustertools In this webinar, you...
From insideHPC
Startup launches virtualized shared memory
Earlier this week startup RNA Networks announced that it has launched a software platform that aggregates memory among servers and makes it available to all the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visualizing Target Growth
From Flowing Data, a visualization of the growth of Target Stores throughout the US.Links to a display of the US, which shows year by year how Target grew. A...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
E-Verify Contractor Rule Delayed; Program Could Appear in Stimulus Package
The E-Verify program, a proposed national electronic employment verification system, continues to stagger toward full implementation. As we noted last fall, some...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Singularity University
Ray Kurzweil has launched the Singularity University. More on a technological Singularity. A futurist view driven by technological developments.
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Microsoft's BI Strategy
Tableau Software's view of Microsoft's new Business Intelligence strategy.
From insideHPC
Fast Forward to 2012: IBM Breaks
The US Department of Energy has just announced a program awarded to IBM that will birth a 20 Petaflop supercomputer by the year 2012.
From Putting People First
What the heck is user experience design??!!
Audio interview with Jesse James Garrett, president and co-founder of Adaptive Path. Some describe it as making things easy and enjoyable to use. Others describe...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Action Alert! Urge Your Representatives to Support Science
A very important message to the Computing Research Advocacy Network (CRAN) is now on the CRA Government Affairs Blog. We are asking our members to contact their...
From Putting People First
Book: The Reconstruction of Space and Time: Mobile Communication Practices
The Reconstruction of Space and Time: Mobile Communication Practices By Rich Ling, Scott Campbell (editors) Published by Transaction Publishers, 2008 ISBN 141280809X...
From Putting People First
Book: Mobile Technologies - From Telecommunications to Media
Mobile Technologies - From Telecommunications to Media Editors: Gerard Goggin; Larissa Hjorth ISBN: 978-0-415-98986-2 (hardback) 978-0-203-88431-7 (electronic) Series...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Compressed bitmaps in Java
A bitmap is an efficient array of boolean values. They are commonly used in bitmap indexes. The Java language has a bitmap class: BitSet. Unfortunately, the Java...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
One of the fathers of academic blogging is back
Seb Paquet resumed blogging. Why should you go subscribe to his new blog? At some point, he was one of the most read bloggers in the world. He is one of the first...
From insideHPC
Altair Releases Personal
HPCWire: Altair released a new version of their popular batch scheduling software package, deemed Personal PBS.
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Geek Chic
A recent article in the New York Times In 'Geek Chic' and Obama, New Hope for Lifting Women in Science offered hope that the new administration would act on efforts...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bullish
With lots of fear mongering and money being thrown around it is good to see that some companies are still pushing private enterprise and being bullish about ad....
From Daniel Lemire's Blog