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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
Panasas Announces New Product
Panasas has announced a new, broader product line of storage products.
From insideHPC
Glimpses of AMD
AMD, today, released a press statement delivering some tidbits of tasty info on the next three years of core silicon coming out of Sunnyvale.
From CSDiary
Are There 20 Top-10 CS Departments?
I’m on board a Delta flight bound for Pittsburgh right now. My curiosity got the best of me and so I plunked down some money (too much, really) to try out the airline’s...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nature of Private Label Gains
This piece suggests that they have been underway for a long time and cannot be blamed on the recession. Also useful comments. A big challenge for major label CPG...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart to Double Solar Power
Wal-Mart is placing solar panels on their store roofs. Great idea and very good marketing.
From The Noisy Channel
SIGIR
Thanks to Jeff Dalton for alerting me to SIGIR 2009 announcing the lists of accepted papers and posters. As Jon Elsas points out, the authorship looks quite different...
From The Noisy Channel
SIGIR
Thanks to Jeff Dalton for alerting me to SIGIR 2009 announcing the lists of accepted papers and posters. As Jon Elsas points out, the authorship looks quite different...
From The Noisy Channel
Google Profiles: Nice Idea, Meh Execution
The top story on Techmeme is the new push Google is making around profiles. You can get a sense of the reactions from links to the official Google post. Here is...
From The Noisy Channel
Google Profiles: Nice Idea, Meh Execution
The top story on Techmeme is the new push Google is making around profiles. You can get a sense of the reactions from links to the official Google post. Here is...
From CSDiary
CMU Places 12th in World, 3rd in North America, at ACM Programming Contest
The CMU team of Tom Conerly (CS sophomore), Celestine Lau (ECE senior), and Alan Pierce (CS sophomore) placed 12th overall, 3rd in North America, in the ACM International...
From insideHPC
Lustre User Group Keynote + Lustre Roadmap
The Sun HPC Watercooler has pointed us to the keynote presentation video from the Lustre User Group meeting in Sausalito, CA.
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Federal Trade Commission Issues Proposed Breach Notification Rule
On April 16 the Federal Trade Commission issued a proposed rule requiring entities to notify consumers in the event that the security of their electronic health...
From The Eponymous Pickle
WolframAlpha Briefing
Attended the WolframAlpha briefing today, which consisted of an overview by Steven Wolfram and his demonstration of his very ambitious interactive knowledge system...
From Apophenia
"Living and Learning with Social Media"
Over the weekend, I gave a talk at the Penn State Symposium for Teaching and Learning with Technology. I have made a crib of the talk available for anyone who might...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Quantum databases: what are they good for?
Hu et al. just posted An efficient quantum search engine on unsorted database. They refer to an older paper by Patel (2001), Quantum database search can do without...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nokia and Augmented Reality
Short piece on augmented reality that Nokia is developing for cell phones. The potential retail applications are considerable. I also am looking for the inclusion...
From The Eponymous Pickle
So What is a Quick Trip?
Herb Sorensen of TNS Sorensen covers the topic of a quick trip in grocery retail in a recent post. This is covered in more detail in his forthcoming book: Inside...
From The Noisy Channel
Google Similar Images: A Glitch?
After my post yesterday about Google’s new image similarity search, a colleague sent me this link: Oops! But, more importantly, it argues strongly that Google...
From The Noisy Channel
Google Similar Images: A Glitch?
After my post yesterday about Google’s new image similarity search, a colleague sent me this link: Oops! But, more importantly, it argues strongly that Google...
From Wild WebMink