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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
Biggest Kludges of Copyright Law
Lots of interesting information like this at the Plagiarism Today blog.
From Wild WebMink
Open Source Drives The New Sun
The Register article reporting Ian Murdock's move to Sun's new cloud computing group seems to have irritated Ian and it does indeed seem to be an attempt to gather...
From Putting People First
Mike Kuniavsky detangling the meanings around the design of services
Mike Kuniavsky (ThingM) is currently writing a ubicomp user experience design book. He just posted a few tidbits on service design: “There are two fundamental ways...
From Putting People First
Pachube: connecting environments, patching the planet
Pachube is a web service that enables you to connect, tag and share real time sensor data from objects, devices, buildings and environments around the world. The...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Important Things in Social Media
I see that former (in two enterprises) colleague Krista Neher is now CEO at Marketess Consulting where she just posted an item:
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mass Customization
Will mass customization work better during financial crises?-
From insideHPC
Penguin Names new Sr.VP and General
Penguin Computing has announced that it has named Tom Coull a senior vice president and general manager.
From insideHPC
NVIDIA Names New Chief
NVIDIA has announced that it has named a new Chief Scientist/VP of Research.
From insideHPC
Sun
Sun announced this week that it’s opened a new energy efficient data center in Broomfield, Colorado. Responding to market demand for more energy-efficient datacenters...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Marketing Execs Say Use Fewer Numbers
In Adage, This is a dangerous way to fool yourself. The worst cases I have seen of research misapplied is when researchers find what they are looking for, emotionally...
From insideHPC
IBM Lays of 2,800, More on the
Yesterday, IBM announced that they have laid off some 2,800 employees.
From insideHPC
Sun announces Q2, posts
Sun announced its Q2 results for fiscal 2009 this week with both revenues and margin down year over year, but up slightly from Q1 Revenues for the second quarter...
From insideHPC
HPCwire comments: AMD
There is lots of news about AMD’s new Shanghai processors (details on AMD’s own site), so in addition to vectoring you that way (for example, The Register) I’ll...
From insideHPC
IBM opens scientific cloud project in
IBM has announced three new efforts that are taking advantage of its cloud computing platform for scientific computations. The first effort is working with universities...
From insideHPC
New SiCortex in
SiCortex has announced that the University of Madgeburg in Germany will install its big boy SC5832 This leading German university will use its new computer to further...
From insideHPC
Euro grid takes another
As reported at HPCwire, the European Grid Initiative (EGI) has taken another step forward The EGI Blueprint, which details the implementation of the EGI Organization’s...
From insideHPC
Senate focuses on different priorities in 2009 stimulus than
The CRA Policy Blog reports that the highlights from the Senate version of the 2009 stimulus bill (reported on earlier) are in. As the post details, the Senate...
From insideHPC