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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
Advertising Yourself
From Knowledge@Wharton: Advertising Yourself: Building a Personal Brand through Social Networks. " ... According to Jonah Berger, Wharton marketing professor, using...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fortune 500 Blogging
From SNCR, research results on corporate blogging and its use with other social media.Authors Dr. Nora Ganim Barnes, Ph.D., Senior Fellow and Research Chair of"...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Geocities Gone
Geocities, the oldest free web site community, is gone. It was fifteen years old. Quite a few web-years. Like the article says, I had forgotten it still existed...
From The Noisy Channel
Slight Change to the HCIR
I hope you all are gearing up for HCIR 2009! Those who have not yet read the call for participation or looked at the web site can safely ignore this message, which...
From The Noisy Channel
Slight Change to the HCIR
I hope you all are gearing up for HCIR 2009! Those who have not yet read the call for participation or looked at the web site can safely ignore this message, which...
From insideHPC
6 core istanbul moves forward to
We’re hearing this in several places, but The Register’s Timothy Prickett Morgan has an overview of AMD’s schedule acceleration on the new Opterons AMD is picking...
From insideHPC
Computational biology at
TACC is reporting on work being done on its system related to computational biology and understanding how the molecules that advanced laboratory techniques have...
From insideHPC
Acumem announces new
Acumem has announced that support for Windows HPC Server 2008 is now available in its performance tools suite featuring Threadspotter and Slowspotter. The performance...
From insideHPC
Fault tolerance at scale: embrace your inner
iSTGW is running a feature article this week with an overview of the issues discussed at the Fault Tolerance for Extreme Scalability Workshop sponsored by the NSF...
From insideHPC
Matlab announces Argonne, Tesla using their
The Mathworks announced two customers this week using their tools in science and engineering. The first at Argonne The MathWorks today announced that Argonne National...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Maps Includes WebCams
Google Maps has started to include webcam locations. Now over 9,000 world-wide.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Signals and Financial Modeling
Renowned Game and simulation model builder Ken Karakotsios posts on market signals in financial engineering. A very nice case study of how a model is constructed...
From insideHPC
ICCS offers free HPC
Found at HPCwire, news that the ICCS, hosted by the LSU Center for Computation & Technology, is offering free HPC education: The ninth annual International Conference...
From insideHPC
SC09
The latest edition of the SC09 newsletter is out; it’s not up on the website yet, but Rich Brueckner from Sun has linked to it here (thanks, Rich). Technical Panel...
From insideHPC
AMD reports Q1 2009, posts
Two days ago (sorry, I was on the road) AMD reported its first quarter results for 2009. Performance was down over 20% year over year, and they lost money, continuing...
From The Noisy Channel
Too Connected, Or Not Connected Enough?
A bit off my usual selection of topics, but an article by Bruce Perens about a cyber-attack on Morgan Hill, a small city in northern California caught my attention...
From The Noisy Channel
Too Connected, Or Not Connected Enough?
A bit off my usual selection of topics, but an article by Bruce Perens about a cyber-attack on Morgan Hill, a small city in northern California caught my attention...
From Putting People First
What on Earth are Anthropologists Doing Playing With Mobile Phones?
What on earth are anthropologists doing playing with mobile phones, asks Ken Banks, founder of kiwanja.net and creator of FrontlineSMS. “It’s widely recognised...
From The Eponymous Pickle
GS1 DataBar
The GS1 DataBar (formerly RSS, Reduced Space Symbology) is a form of barcode, approved and promoted by the GS1 standards body which contains more data space and...
From insideHPC