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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
Starbucks Tree Rings
Junk Charts shows a particularly bizarre misuse of data visualization design by Starbucks. Seems the visual designers would not use something as simple as a bar...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Semantic Desktop
In Tech Review:People naturally group information by topic and remember relationships between important things, like a person and the company where she works. But...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
My (short) activity report for 2008
I heard on radio today that the Christmas break should be used to review the past year, and decide where you want to go. Good idea! What did I do? I published...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
My low-tech research tools
I carry a pocketbook and a pen everywhere. At night, my pocketbook is by my bed. All creative workers should carry notebooks. Organizing and collecting ideas are...
From insideHPC
Merry
John, Michael, all the gang at Tabor, and I want to thank you for the tremendous reception you’ve given us this year. Your comments, emails, and hearty hello’s...
From insideHPC
Cilk++ Goes
Ilya Mirman posted an interesting note on the CilkArts blog this morning.
From insideHPC
Sun revs shared visualization
From Sun’s HPC Watercooler: Sun’s Shared Visualization software lets organizations share centralized compute and graphics resources. Applications can run in the...
From insideHPC
Multicoreinfo.com posts its
Multicoreinfo.com posts its 10 best posts of 2008 We started MulticoreInfo.com at the end of April 2008 and published more than 1350 posts linking to useful resources...
From insideHPC
Waiting for the bat signal: the economy and the future of
Doug Eadline posted the results of his Linux Magazine poll, “How has the recent economic events effected your HPC budget plans for 2009?” on the 16th, but somehow...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kraft's Meal Planning Tool
Have downloaded and played with Kraft's Mobile Food Assistant application. Delivers some seven thousand recipes, a smart shopping list and recipe box. A bit slow...
From Wild WebMink
Link roundup to December 23
OpenSolaris now on Toshiba laptopsWell, will be soon. Interesting development though, and a sound one for Netbooks (assuming that's what this is about) where fundamentally...
From insideHPC
As HPC
I’m curious to know what mechanisms you use for professional development as HPC’ers. Which conferences are especially useful? Do you belong to a professional society...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Antikythera Mechanism Modeled
I was introduced to this archaeological puzzle as an undergraduate. Now its model has led to more mysteries.
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Where do presidents and prime ministers go to school?
In his most recent essay, After the credentials, Paul Graham tells us that in South Korea where “college entrance exams determine 70 to 80 percent of a person’s...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Decrease in Comparison Site Visits
StorefrontBackTalk reports that there has been a sharp decrease in price comparison site visits, despite the economy. The post and comment show how complex the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
LibraryThing Runs a uClassify Contest
Always interesting LibraryThing is running a contest using free online uClassify to classify text. I mentioned uClassify a short time ago and used it to classify...
From Wild WebMink
Link roundup to December 22
FauxliageI somehow missed this collaboration between Leigh Nash and the Delerium guys when it came out - just heard it on Lush on Soma FM and loved it. And I see...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Too Many Business Intelligence Tools
CW reports that Forrester has released a report that managers believe they have too many BI tools in house. Although I have not read the full report yet, I agree...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Women at the Brazil National Database Conference
Another small
From Computer Science Teachers Association