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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
Dan Ariely on Buggy Moral Code
Dan Ariely author of Predictably Irrational in a Februry TED video talk on Why we think it's OK to cheat and steal (sometimes). He covers some of this same example...
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Shortcomings of the Pie Chart
In Seedmagazine: Understanding the shortcomings of the pie chart can help us make sense of and improve the emerging scientific aesthetic of the 21st century?...
From insideHPC
Platform opens cloud innovation center in
This week Platform Computing announced a new innovation center around its cloud software and services in Singapore Platform Computing, the leader in grid and cloud...
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Argonne takes more steps to manage energy
I talked to Pete Beckman of the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility back in December about a really simple, but interesting, idea that he had implemented to save...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Innovating in Emergent Markets
Tata and Unilever in emerging marketings, from Andrea Meyers' Working Knowledge. " ... How you get a product to market may be as important as what you get to market...
From Putting People First
Gathering User Ideas
Nokia’s IdeasProject website is intriguing. A content focused platform focused on high level discourse, it contains interviews with thought leaders in communications...
From insideHPC
Cooling your datacenter with outside air, and what
Found at Enterprise IT Planet’s Green IT news weekly roundup, two items of interest to us HPC types According to a survey by IDC, 68 percent of IT executives rated...
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Intel announces Q1, reports
A quickie from Intel, announcing Q1 results: Intel Corporation today reported first-quarter revenue of $7.1 billion, operating income of $670 million, net income...
From Putting People First
Organic interfaces workshop at CHI 2009
Carla Diana reports on Core77 at length about the highly conceptual CHI presentation/panel “Eek! A Mouse! Organic User Interfaces: Tangible, Transitive Materials...
From The Noisy Channel
DeWitt and Stonebraker vs. MapReduce, Round 2
A few months ago, database titans David J. DeWitt and Michael Stonebraker wrote
From insideHPC
Sun launches new HPC
At Sun’s Partner Summit on Tuesday the company announced a slew of new products for HPC. The head of Sun’s HPC sales organization, Marc Hamilton, hits some performance...
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G's Recent Social Media Efforts
P&G's Dave Knox posts about their recent Tide 'Loads of Hope' Social media effort: "... it looks like some have thought we were
From Putting People First
Data as seductive material
Matt Jones (of Dopplr) gave a talk recently on seduction at the Sensing and Sensuality conference at the Umeå Institute of Design, Sweden. It’s all about seductive...
From Putting People First
UCL London is starting a new MA in Digital Anthropology
UCL (which is the abbreviation for “University College London” although you have to look at the site’s footer to find out) is starting a new MA in Digital Anthropology...
From The Noisy Channel
The SEO War On Terror
I try to keep this blog apolitical, but this is just too funny and sureally on-topic to pass up. According to The Register, the British Office of Security and Counter...
From The Noisy Channel
The SEO War On Terror
I try to keep this blog apolitical, but this is just too funny and sureally on-topic to pass up. According to The Register, the British Office of Security and Counter...
From insideHPC
Lustre Releases New Community
The folks within the Lustre group at Sun have announced the release of a new community site.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Death of Consumer Segmentation?
Insightful piece. Though really more about rethinking the idea of consumer segmentation and how it plays out in consumer decision-making. Makes the point that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Netezza and Mapinfo
Used the package Mapinfo several times in the enterprise. Including the construction of front ends for optimization packages for the supply chain. The world of...
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