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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 …
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New Sun HPC software stack
This in from Sun’s HPC Watercooler The Giraffe team is pleased to announce the release of version 1.2 of our HPC Software Stack for Linux. Sun HPC Software, Linux...
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PSC Scores an HP
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center [PSC] has announced that they have made arrangements with HP to install and make available a new cluster.
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LSU Names New Director of
LSU has officially announced they have named Dr. Honggao Liu its new Director for High Performance Computing.
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Numerati
Just got to Stephen Baker's2008 book: The Numerati. Several people had pointed me to it. It is an overview of the advance of numerical methods since WWII. How...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Must a professor grade his students?
On December 10th 2008, Denis G. Rancourt, a full professor in Physics at the University of Ottawa was banned from his campus. Why? Because he refused to grade students...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Surroundings Matter
In the Neuromarketing blog, a post on the meaning of context of surroundings with regards to behavior. Obvious in the sense of chaos resulting in more chaos inMore...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Watermarking Tools
In Plagiarism Today, a site I just discovered that covers online content, plagiarism and copyright issues, a detailed report on online watermarking tools. In...
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Star-P adds
This just in from Interactive Supercomputing today The Star-P imaging function library was developed with the help of Anona Labs, an Israeli software company specializing...
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Wired
I know we’re only a few days into 2009, but this is likely to me my favorite link of the year: an article at Wired.com that looks at supercomputing’s bad boys: That...
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SiCortex video in the Boston
There was an article in the Boston Globe last week about SiCortex. The web version features an interview with CEO Christopher Stone handling a node and pointing...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Places of the Future
Fraunhofer Institute has put together some research in constructing a hotel room of the future. Marriott tried to do something that included lots of easy interconnectivity...
From Springenwerk Blog
IBM DB2 on the Mac with Ruby, Rails and Radiant
Last year ended with an amazing announcement: IBM DB2 for the Mac! I have worked with DB2 for years and it's a truly great database. Who would have thought that...
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LSU High-End Visualization
The LSU Center for Computation and Technology has announced details of the 5th annual HIgh-End Visualization Workshop.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wikinomics Blog
I see that the Wikinomics blog is up and running, with some interesting posts that expand their exploration of mass collaboration.
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Empowering Students to Explore By Linking CS and Writing
As part of a recent discussion on the Rebooting Computing listserv Ursula Wolz made the following important observations about how to do effective outreach to K...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ten Blogs for Bloggers
Ten blogs every Blogger should read in from Zero to SEO.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Internet and the Press
How does the internet weaken the press? By an existence proof, the local paper delivered to the door is getting thinner by the day.
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
How do I automatically lock myself out of Google Mail?
I want to be locked out of Google Mail if I spent more than X hours in a given day on email. Anyhow knows how to do it? Right now, I spend about two to three hours...
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