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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 Computing Community Consortium Blog
Nominations Sought for New CCC Council Members
Deadline: January 14, 2009. What questions shape our intellectual future? What attracts the best and brightest minds of a new generation? What are the next big...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Photography
Cameraworks: A nice site with advice about digital photography with some useful deep dives.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Success on Linkedin
I have been a member of the professional social network Linkedin for a couple of years now. My profile there. Many of my colleagues, retired or back at the firm...
From Wild WebMink
Tidying away the last links from 2008
OOoCon 2009 - Call for Location Want to host the next OpenOffice.org conference? the 2008 event was in Beijing so I'd have to guess a location in Europe would stand...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Congratulations, Dame Wendy Hall!
ACM President Wendy Hall has been appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) by Queen Elizabeth II. Announcement of this honor was made by...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Word Origins
A bit off this track, but I was pointed to Word Origins recently, which is worth a look. As a blogger, reader of feeds in many areas it is surprising how often...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Open Innovation at Nestle
Nestle's Open Innovation site. Also the Open Innovation blog.
From Computer Science Teachers Association
The New Year
I hope that you have had as restful and relaxing a holiday break as I have. After what felt like non-stop activity during the first semester, with lessons to plans...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart and Prism
Ad Age reports on Wal-Mart's pulling out of Prism. " ... decided not to participate in the national syndicated service "consistent with their internal data-sharing...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Where are the academic podcasts?
This blog is also a podcast. Few people notice. I have not posted any audio in months. (If you have never listened to me: I am better at writing English than at...
From insideHPC
Butte Becomes
Montana’s first [according to the article] supercomputer has officially arrived in Butte.
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
What makes recommender systems work?
Why can we predict tastes? There are several possible explanations: Intrinsically, individuals have predictable tastes. To test this theory, we would need to isolate...
From Springenwerk Blog
Links for 2008-12-30 [del.icio.us]
Facebook Platform .:. Bug 3732 – Users cannot add apps (URI repeatedly grows until it's too long)
From The Eponymous Pickle
Second Earth: A Geographic Model Mashup
An interesting example of the overlaying of real time data from the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) onto a globe, which was then inserted...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Ends Research Database Program
Google will end their research database program at the end of January 09. The object was to provide large databases for scientific study, as described in this....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cell Phone Health Biometrics
Another example of health monitoring using cellphone based systems, from UCLA.
From The Eponymous Pickle
End of Individual Genius?
A interesting view, though I remember reading about this a long time ago. That most results come from research labs, not individuals. There seem to be many celebrity...
From insideHPC
VTDC
Just announced on the Beowulf list are the details for the third annual International Workshop on Virtualization Technologies in Distributed Computing [VTDC09].
From Computer Science Teachers Association