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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
Green design can add to costs, but that isn
From Enterprise IT Planet’s weekly news roundup, a few items of green news that you can drop at your next center staff meeting IT hosting company The Planet unveiled...
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Obama sets goal for largest R&D investment in US
Peter Harsha covered this a couple days ago at the CRA’s Policy Blog, but I managed to miss it then. The President used a speech before the members of the National...
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Sun reports Q3, posts
A lot went wrong for Sun’s business in the third quarter: Revenues for the third quarter of fiscal 2009 were $2.614 billion, as compared with $3.266 billion for...
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Behind Blue
My pal Bill Kramer (who I just interviewed as part of a project I’m doing that I’ll talk more about in a week or so) has center stage in a video NCSA just released...
From Putting People First
Is Interaction Design a dead-end job?
Tim McCoy of Cooper thinks it is, at least as a service offering and a career path. “IDEO
From Putting People First
Social networking sites as building tools
anthrodesign is a Yahoo! group of (currently 1693) individuals interested in the role of applied anthropology in the corporate, public sector, and medical contexts...
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User-centred design improves workflows in radiology
From an article on eHealthNews: “The software developers at Siemens Healthcare have come up with something special for customers employing Siemens PACS (Picture...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Quest for Computable Knowledge
Stephen Wolfram posts a short timeline of a Quest for Computable Knowledge. Certainly some interesting mentions. Includes things like Wolfram's New Kind of Science...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nielsen on Global Media
A very good pdf report on global social media from Nielsen, worth the read.
From CSDiary
Tom Mitchell Named CMU University Professor
An announcement sent out earlier today by Randy Bryant, Dean of the CMU School of Computer Science: I
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Cray reports Q1, posts
Supercomputing stalwart Cray Inc. reported results today for the first fiscal quarter of 2009. From the release Cray Inc. today announced financial results for...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Facebook Opens Up
I see that Facebook has released a largely open API. What this means is that you will start to see many additional parties writing applications for Facebook....
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Policy Highlights from Communications of the ACM - April 2008 (Vol. 52, No. 4)
Items in the April issue of Communications of the ACM that have policy relevance. Remember, much of the material in CACM is considered premium content. You will...
From Apophenia
upcoming conferences/talks
Now that I'm working at Microsoft Research, I'm doing a bit more public/academic speaking, but I've done a terrible job of announcing where and when. So let me...
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InsideTrack: Rumors that two bidders survived the SGI
Industry sources say that only two bidders made it through the diligence process willing to submit a bid: Rackable, and a group of creditors, and that Rackable...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ariely on Experimentation and Measurement
In SASCom Voices: Dan Ariely on experimentation and measurement. Always an important issue.
From insideHPC
Cray Expands Reseller List for CX-1
Cray has announced that it has expanded its global set of resellers of the popular CX-1 deskside unit. We are pleased with the progress we are making with the Cray...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-04-29
Child behaviour 'linked to sleep' So parents have been right all these years? Who would have guessed. (tags: children...
From Putting People First
Book
The Plenitude Creativity, Innovation, and Making Stuff Rich Gold Foreword by John Maeda MIT Press, September 2007 We live with a lot of stuff. The average kitchen...
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