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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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Eadline on
Douglas Eadline has a piece at Linux Journal this about frameworks that allow users to create HPC applications without MPI. He outlines a spectrum of implementation...
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Official Release: Rackable Systems Receives Court Approval to Purchase Silicon Graphics
Silicon Graphics has released an official statement regarding the recent filing and subsequent purchase by Rackable.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hand Sanitizers
Johnson & Johnson's hand sanitizer Purell is of course getting a good ride recently. They have special news and related information. Should they be playing other...
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InsideTrack: deposits, stalking horses, Bull(s), and parachutes in the SGI Rackable
One of the legal documents from the proceeding today in bankruptcy court is making its way out to employees. Rackable CEO Mark Barrenchea filed an affidavit in...
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Rackable Featured on CNBC Tech
Rackable Systems was featured on yesterday’s CNBC Tech Effect news spot.
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InsideTrack: SGI notifying customers that the Rackable acquisition has been
SGI has begun notifying customers that the judge in its bankruptcy case approved the sale of SGI to Rackable during the hearing today in district court. The deal...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Attracting Young Women and Minorities To Computing
As part of my work on the CSTA Leadership Cohort, a Southern New Jersey Shore Chapter of CSTA has been created. On Tuesday, March 26th Dr. David Klappholz fromThe...
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Bull reports Q1, growth in
Bull is not listed on any of the American stock exchanges, which means that they have different rules about what news they have to share with investors. In particular...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Lindstrom Among World's Most Influential
I see that Time Magazine has declared sensory marketing expert Martin Lindstrom, author of the recent best-seller Buyology, is among the world's hundred most influential...
From Putting People First
NESTA
NESTA, the UK Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts, just announced that it has undertaken research which leads it to believe the UK is unprepared for...
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PSC Debuts Dynamic Science
The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center has debuted a new dyanmic science teaching tool geared towards high school and undergraduate students.
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Court docket for SGI
SGI is in Judge Martin Glenn’s courtroom this morning. Here is the relevant part of Judge Glenn’s docket today 10 am : Silicon Graphics, Inc. RE: Doc #177; Objection...
From Putting People First
Bill Moggridge wins Cooper-Hewitt Lifetime Achievement Award
Today, Cooper-Hewitt Director Paul Warwick Thompson announced the winners and finalists of the 2009 National Design Awards, which recognise excellence across a...
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links for 2009-04-30
Name of deadly flu virus causes consternation EU officials clearly not considering the impact on the book industry of their proposed...
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Intel tops EPA green power rankings, IBM, HP, Sun
Timothy Prickett Morgan has an article at The Register today about the EPA’s latest quarterly ranking of organizations who report their renewable power consumption...
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More free computational science courses, deadline May
The Great Lakes Consortium for Petascale Computation (one of the Blue Waters partners) is announcing a May 18 deadline for application to two free computational...
From Putting People First
A selection of CHI2009 papers
Today I spent some time looking through the CHI 2009 papers. Here is a personal selection (and you need an ACM membership to access them): A comparative study of...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
President Obama Addresses the National Academies
On Monday, President Obama spoke before the National Academies during the National Academy of Sciences' Annual meeting. Both audio and video of the address are...
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