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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 Wild WebMink
Thursday's Links, January 8th
OpenOffice.org vs. Go-OO: Cutting through the Gordian KnotInteresting and reasonably balanced article on the endless and fruitless debate Novell is generating.Sun...
From CSDiary
NY Times on the Pittsburgh Economy
I’m about to start the last day of meetings here in Taipei. There have been many interesting research presentations and hallway conversations, as well as ceremonial...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Tag Released
It is unfair to compare this to the CueCat, since that fabled failed project attempted to include a unitasking piece of hardware, while these methods do not and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Open Source Victories
Open Source victories of 2008. For those interested in the topic of open source this is interesting. After my leaving the big firm, now that I have to make my...
From insideHPC
IBM and ITIF calls on President-elect to pump $30B into
From coverage at The Register In December, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal, Palmisano made a presentation to Carol Browner, the incoming White...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Progress is continuous by nature
In my post We never invent anything new, yet progress is made!, I argued that innovation is incremental and social. I derived two recommendations for innovators...
From insideHPC
10GbE is Ready for Your Cluster. Or is
Linux Magazine has an article written by Dan Tuchler detailing why he thinks 10-gigabit Ethernet should be a more widely considered for vanilla HPC cluster installations...
From insideHPC
200 TFLOPS Chinese super expected in
According to Chinese news agency Xinhua, the home grown Dawning 5000A is expected to be installed in April of this year. The supercomputer, with a peak capability...
From insideHPC
Survey finds banks plan to increase HPC spend in
IT analysis firm Waters published results from a survey earlier this week detailing the 2009 spend plans by banks for HPC. The survey was conducted by Platform...
From insideHPC
Many-Core and Reconfigurable Supercomputing Conference 2009,
The Many-Core and Reconfigurable Supercomputing Conference (MRSC) has evolved over the last few years to become the primary European conference addressing the use...
From The Eponymous Pickle
CYC is Posting Snippets of Knowledge
I see that the CYC company is now twittering. CYC was started in 1984 by Douglas Lenat. Their site has some demos. Have followed its progress since then andin...
From The Eponymous Pickle
R Computing for Data Mining
The NYTimes has an overview article on the open source R Computing Language. Emphasizing its use for data mining applications. Not a bad article, but they start...
From CSDiary
Marcel Just and Tom Mitchell Appear on CBS 60 Minutes
Last Sunday I wrote about the computational neuroscience work by Marcel Just and Tom Mitchell. Well, the CBS 60 Minutes feature was really quite interesting. In...
From CSDiary
Gigapan Story is #1 on Times of London in 2008
This news has been on the SCS web page for about a week already, but still worth a mention here: Last year the online edition of the Times of London did a story...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Search Engine Optimization Blogs
eCairn has published a list of the top 150 blogs that cover Search Engine optimization and Search Engine Marketing (SEO/SEM).
From The Eponymous Pickle
Targeting Shoppers with Loyalty Data
Short NYT article that shows how dunnhumby uses loyalty data to target consumers for retail clients. After many years of using loyalty data, retailers are finally...
From insideHPC
Sun adds Belgian Q-layer to its cloud
From Sun today Sun Microsystems, Inc…today announced it has acquired Q-layer, a cloud computing company that automates the deployment and management of both public...
From insideHPC
Financial Engineering Summit next
Today is becoming “event day” here at insideHPC. I had an email earlier this week about an upcoming computational finance event in New York hosted by NVIDIA and...
From insideHPC
ISC
From HPCwire ISC’09, the 24th meeting of the International Supercomputing Conference, is seeking papers from researchers in computing and scientific disciplines...
From insideHPC