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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
Robotic Bike Parking in Japan
An interesting 'robotic' bike parking system in Tokyo. I agree with one of the commenters on traveling in Tokyo, I rarely had a perspective of where I was in the...
From insideHPC
Computing research challenges for the 21st
Peter Lee and Ed Lazowska posted at the CCC’s blog last week on an initiative they have going to collect short idea pieces on the future of computing research from...
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HPCwire: Top 10 hits and misses in
One of the things I learned during the time that I was blogging for InfoWorld was that web readers love lists. I just wasn’t very good at writing them. But HPCwire’s...
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900 million processor-hours awarded in 2009 DOE INCITE
Last week the United States Department of Energy announced their sixth annual round of large HPC allocation awards
From insideHPC
U of Houston Installs New Sun
The University of Houston Research Computing Center [RCC] in collaboration with the Texas Learning and Computation Center [TLC2] recently purchased and installed...
From insideHPC
Green HPC in Scientific Computing
Twitter user erincollopy points us to this article at hpcprojects.com (a subsite of Scientific Computing World) on the greening of HPC HPC suppliers are addressing...
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Rackable
Last week Rackable announced a new “data center enclosure” for your gear. You can slot in either AMD or Intel servers, but they’ll have to be Rackable’s, since...
From insideHPC
Sun Compute Cluster part of new Rapid Solutions
Sun announced last week a new services offering tied to its hardware and designed to help customers get their installation done faster. Mostly this is done by pre...
From insideHPC
New computer memory possible with good old-fashioned pencil
Scientists at Rice have found a way to create a new kind of memory from a strip of graphene, the stuff that in bulk is called graphite, and drives No 2 pencils...
From CSDiary
Merry Christmas!
The semester is over, but there is still enough work to do on various proposals, recommendation letters, and think pieces that I am in my office instead of at home...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Seeing 1859 Stereo
I enjoy discussions linking the history of a technology to its current state. This article looks at the stereographic technology of 1859 and how it relates to"...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Behind the Way We Shop
National Public Radio (NPR) audio recording on Buyology/Neuromarketing: The Buyology Behind the Way We Shop
From Wild WebMink
Open Source Maturity
There's an interesting comment from 451 Group's Matthew Aslett on the five stages of community open source engagement that's worth reading. I've been using a model...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Generating Power in Clothing
From Zhong Lin Wang's lab:Nano generator that can be grown over fibers.Generates energy by human movements.Ottilia Saxl, chief executive of the Institute of Nanotechnology...
From insideHPC
UCAR Releases VAPOR
UCAR has announced the latest release of the Visualization and Analysis Platform, or VAPOR application.
From insideHPC
CIBC Winter Workshop
Through the SCIRUN-USERS mailing list, Rob MacLeod announced the 2008/2009 Center for Integrative Biomedical Computing [CIBC] Winter Workshop: Boston Edition.
From Putting People First
Watch the video - Mobile Banking for Poor People: Pioneer Perspectives
Last week, the World Bank’s CGAP hosted a roundtable and webinar on the important topic of how mobile phone banking can deliver a range of financial services to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Blowing into your Cell Phone
There have been a number of keyboard instruments for the IP, so when I first read of a wind instrument app I thought ... how would that work? There is an Ocarina...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Parsing CSV files is CPU bound: a C++ test case (Update 2)
I am continuing my fun saga to determine whether parsing CSV files is CPU bound or I/O bound. Recall that I posted some C++ code and reported that it took 96 seconds...
From The Eponymous Pickle