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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
Analytics vs Gut Feelings
An Accenture study says that 60% of major decisions are made with analytics and 40% are made with gut judgement. Business leaders think that more attention should...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Why I write bad papers (sometimes)
My Write good papers paper gives a fairly reliable recipe to write good papers. I think it is difficult to good wrong if you follow this recipe. How is it, then...
From insideHPC
Rackable Introduces MicroSlice
Rackable Systems has introduced its latest series of dense server platform based on some new technology they have developed, deemed MicroSlice.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Large Lectures Replaced
In the NYT, an article about how universities like MIT are replacing " .... traditional large introductory lecture with smaller classes that emphasize hands-on,...
From Springenwerk Blog
Links for 2009-01-21 [del.icio.us]
SapphireSteel :: Ruby On Rails With Flex Ruby in Steel :: Ruby On Rails programming in Visual Studio
From Putting People First
95% of mobile users would use more data services if setup were easier
Press release: Complexity is preventing uptake and usage of mobile applications and services, according to a survey of US and UK consumers commissioned by mobile...
From Putting People First
BUG+IDEO blog
IDEO just announced a quick open user interface exploration project with Bug Labs, that will run for a little over a week on a new public blog BUG+IDEO. An open...
From Putting People First
EU President Barroso discusses how to boost
Yesterday President Barroso met social innovation experts and stakeholders in Brussels, following a workshop organised by the Bureau of European Policy Advisers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Roundtable Talks
A bit dated to mention this, but there is a talkshow format set of talks about technologies. Includes one on natural language translation that I posted about some...
From Putting People First
Book: Designing for the Digital Age
Designing for the Digital Age: How to Create Human-Centered Products and Services [amazon] by Kim Goodwin, Alan Cooper Wiley (March 2009) Paperback: 768 pages ISBN...
From Putting People First
Bad usability calendar
The (in)famous Bad Usability Calendar has featured 48 classic design mistakes in 13 different languages since 2005. Now it is available in its 2009 edition (with...
From Putting People First
Top kitchen toy? The cellphone
According to the New York Times’ Julia Moskin, the cellphone has transformed the kitchen lives of many Americans. “It has become the kitchen tool of choice for...
From insideHPC
IBM reports record
Interesting story from The Register on why Big Blue is even smugger than usual right now There’s a lot of bad economic news floating around, but there wasn’t much...
From insideHPC
Assystem UK using
I’m only running it for the headline — no, it’s not a typo. Original PR at HPCwire, blurb below Altair Engineering, Inc., a leading global provider of technology...
From insideHPC
HPC helps build crankshafts 80%
UK HPC integrator OCF (one of the companies I wrote about in this article about the UK HPC market) has delivered an HPC system that really gets at the heart of...
From insideHPC
AMD and Sun deliver small cluster to
Although neither Sun nor AMD are reporting this on their own primary (ie, US) sites, China Daily is reporting that oil exploration firm China National Petroleum...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Net Neutrality Connected to Broadband Stimulus
Funds for broadband deployment are part of the economic stimulus package currently under construction on Capitol Hill. Worth noting is that this funding has at...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IEEE Computing Now: Search Viz
IEEE Computing Now is in Beta. Here is a current article on visualization. Pak Chung Wong of Pacific Northwest Laboratory gives us an overview of their work under...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Crowd-Sourcing the World
This is quite ambitious, I see that Nokia is involved. How do we know this will be used for good rather than evil? Even a bit less than evil?"Crowd-Sourcing the...
From insideHPC