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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
NSF awards support academic research in Google
Found at HPCwire, news of NSF awards late last week to support academic use of the CluE program [The] National Science Foundation announced it has awarded nearly...
From insideHPC
Lustre Scalability
The folks over at the Sun HPC Watercooler have led us over to a great video on the topic of Lustre scalability.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Emotional Cartography Resource
Michael W Cristiani passes this along, just now examining.Emotional Cartography: Implications of Visualizing Intimate Biometric Data" ... The (44MB freely downloadable)...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Obama Administration Appoints a Chief Technology Officer
One of the Administration's campaign promises was to create the position of Chief Technology Officer. While the specific job description was vague during the campaign...
From insideHPC
Cray, Fernbach, and Kennedy award nominations due July
Dan Reed has a post on his blog today about the upcoming due dates for HPC’s Nobel Prizes, the Cray and Fernbach awards, plus a brand new one named in honor of...
From insideHPC
Molecular model of brain yields first
From the BBC, news of work presented at the European Future Technologies meeting in Prague on “Blue Brain,” a research effort started in 2005 to reverse engineer...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Organizing Internationally
CSTA's membership continues to grow, and as it does, we strive to find better ways to serve all of our members no matter where they happen to live. At present...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Takes on Jeopardy
In the NY Times, the technology section : ' ... I.B.M. plans to announce Monday that it is in the final stages of completing a computer program to compete against...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Consumer Machine Vision
Sammy Haroon, former astute enterprise colleague, writes about work in understanding consumers in real time using machine vision and some of his experiences....
From insideHPC
Cilk++ Multicore
The folks at CilkArts have announced that they will hold a two day course on programming in a multicore environment with Cilk++.
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-04-27
IP Location tools Some very useful building-blocks on this site, both available as web services and as SQL databases you can host...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of April 27
April 28 Hearing: The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee will hold a hearing on cybersecurity. 10 a.m., 342 Dirksen Building The Federal...
From insideHPC
Inside HPC publishing, and the week in
Latest features are up at HPCwire. In my Q&A with Randi Cohen, the Computer Science Acquisitions editor at CRC Press, I pepper her with questions about what she...
From insideHPC
BlueGene to compete on
Found at the NY Times, courtesy of the Computing Research Policy TumbleLog, an article about IBM’s research efforts to develop an application for its BlueGene platform...
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Cloud computing
Joe Landman comments at his blog about one of the problems with cloud computing at the high end: data in motion. He references a news release at HPCwire from a...
From insideHPC
Six years of
From Nigel Dessau’s blog at AMD (he’s the chief marketeer), word of AMD’s 6th birthday (that’s 42 in dog years), and its most recently announced processor tweaks...
From insideHPC
Al Gore to keynote SC09: an exclusive interview with SC09 chair Wilf
SC09, the HPC community’s largest technical conference, trade show, and annual homecoming, has announced that Al Gore (yes, the Nobel Prize winning, Academy Award...
From The Noisy Channel
Who Wants To Play
That would be IBM Research, for millions of dollars (I suspect). I’ve known about the Jeopardy project for a while from colleagues at IBM, and I’m glad I can finally...
From The Noisy Channel