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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 Putting People First
Global usability organisation embraces design
In December last year, the Usability Professionals’ Association (UPA) organised its first European conference in Turin, Italy, with a focus on the connection between...
From Putting People First
Persuasive design for sustainability
Jeremy Faludi has compiled — in an article for Core77 00 a synthesis of the work of Stanford lecturer and researcher BJ Fogg on the field of persuasive design,...
From Putting People First
Three environmental discourses in human-computer interaction
Elizabeth Goodman of the UC Berkeley School of Information made a presentation on the past and future of environmental issues and HCI at the recent CHI conference...
From insideHPC
Is Parallel Programming
Dr. Guy Blelloch of Carnegie Mellon University has written an article for the folks at CilkArts analyzing why parallel programming seems to be more difficult than...
From insideHPC
Timeline-O-Bo
Douglas Eadline at Linux Magazine has written up an interesting summary of news posts regarding the recent history of Silicon Graphics’ CEO, Bo Ewald.
From The Noisy Channel
Enterprise Search is Green
While I’m all for eco-friendly goods and services, I don’t usually think of my work as helping to save the environment. But this post from Vivisimo Chief Scientist...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smells Like in a Billion Bucks
In Fast Company. A teaser of an insider's look into Procter and what it takes to be a billion dollar brand. Check out the bizarre Old Spice site, it's not your...
From The Noisy Channel
The Craft of Exploratory Search
Posts like this one from Gene Golovchinsky make me feel sad that I didn’t actually attend CHI, though I’m glad I did get to hang out with the exploratory search...
From The Noisy Channel
The Craft of Exploratory Search
Posts like this one from Gene Golovchinsky make me feel sad that I didn’t actually attend CHI, though I’m glad I did get to hang out with the exploratory search...
From The Noisy Channel
CACM Article on DB/IR
In my rush to finish writing my book this month, I haven’t had much time for reading. But I did notice an article in the April ‘09 issue of Communications of the...
From The Noisy Channel
CACM Article on DB/IR
In my rush to finish writing my book this month, I haven’t had much time for reading. But I did notice an article in the April ‘09 issue of Communications of the...
From The Noisy Channel
CACM Article on DB/IR
In my rush to finish writing my book this month, I haven’t had much time for reading. But I did notice an article in the April ‘09 issue of Communications of the...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
The primary and secondary benefits of e-networking
Social networking tools such as blogs, microblogs (Twitter), and Facebook, extend your communication abilities. The immediate benefits are threefold: Increased...
From insideHPC
Compete for access to the world
The DOE has recently announced its call for proposals for those seeking time on select supercomputers through the INCITE program. From the DOE HPC page For the...
From insideHPC
MATLAB acceleration for GPUs with
NVIDIA is offering a seminar today at 1 eastern (US) time that covers MATLAB acceleration for GPUs with Jacket from AccelerEyes: Get 10x-50x speed-ups in MATLAB...
From insideHPC
Sun tries to move past questions left by abandoned IBM
An article in NetworkWorld Middle East features comments by Sun’s hardware chief John Fowler aimed at getting in front of questions that potential buyers have about...
From insideHPC
New VP, new business for
Cray has been in the process of formalizing a new line of business for at least a couple of months. Its “custom engineering” business will help customers with specialized...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mindsets and Models and Risk
From Knowledge@Wharton: Re-thinking Risk Management: Why the Mindset Matters More Than the Model. Good piece on how to think about new architectures of risk."...
From Wild WebMink