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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 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
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From Computer Science Teachers Association
Addressing the Crisis in Computer Science Certification
We can all agree that it is essential that computer science teachers have adequate preparation and professional development to teach computer science successfully...
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...
From insideHPC
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...
From insideHPC
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...
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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