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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 Daniel Lemire's Blog
Universities and the recession
Andre Vellino pointed me to this article: Will the recession affect higher education? Short answer: yes. Interesting bites: If you think education has historically...
From CERIAS Blog
Unsecured Economies, and Overly-secured Reports
The Report Over the last few months, CERIAS faculty members Jackie Rees and Karthik Kannan have been busy analyzing data collected from IT executives around the...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
How to ask for a scholarship
I have had some experience reviewing scholarship requests from graduate students. Here are a few pointers: For God sake! Know why you are going to graduate school...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Upcoming: NeuroConnections in Cracow
Site and blog: Neuro connections. Next week I am off to the Neuroconnections conference in Cracow, Poland. Will cover aspects of neuromarketing and beyond. I...
From insideHPC
Download Rocks for Solaris10
InsideHPC broke the news last October that the Rocks Cluster Toolkit guys were working on a port to the Solaris10 platform.
From insideHPC
Intel to discuss eight core Xeon at
Multicoreinfo.com points us to the folks at Macworld, who did a little digging in the International Solid-State Circuits Conference program, and finds news thatIntel...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Easy Word Clouds
Wordle is a free online system by Jonathan Feinberg that lets you generate word clouds from text sources. The cloud above is one generated from recent posts to...
From insideHPC
Cooling CPUs with
Multicoreinfo.com points us to a Computerworld piece on nano-fridges for cooling your chips With heat sinks and fans not up to the task of cooling the 100-degree...
From insideHPC
Sun CEO says Rock on track for this
Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Register reports this week on news that Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz is (publicly) confident that the company’s new Rock processor will...
From insideHPC
QLogic announces Q3, posts
And speaking of vendors and quarterly announcements, QLogic announced this week. Highlights from their release Third Quarter Highlights Net revenue increased 4...
From insideHPC
Mellanox announces Q4 and FY2008, posts
InfiniBand vendor Mellanox announced its Q4 and 2008 annual results this week. Their press release provides a handy list so that yours truly doesn’t have to do...
From insideHPC
Looking inside Sun
I do not own any significant Sun gear at all, other than in my archive storage system, so I think I’m pretty unbiased when I say that one thing I really appreciate...
From insideHPC
QLogic builds support for IB channel partners in
Earlier this month QLogic announced a new program targeted at capitalizing on the increasing adoption of InfiniBand in HPC installations: The new SignatureHPC program...
From CERIAS Blog
A Modest Proposal
Yesterday and today I was reading repeated news stories about the pending bailout—much of it intended to prop up companies with failed business models and incompetent...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Branding Only Works on Cattle
Have now read Jonathan Salem Baskin's book: Branding Only Works on Cattle: The New Way to Get Known (and drive your competitors crazy). He also has a supporting...
From insideHPC
BOXXTech Releases Monster
BOXX Technologies, proprietors of high-end graphics workstations and servers, have announced the release of their latest high end workstation series, the 4850 Extreme...
From Putting People First
An experience designer at a technology company
Clive Grinyer wrote a highly honest, yet optimistic post about his experience of working in a hardcore technology company (Cisco) as a user experience designer....
From The Eponymous Pickle