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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
ACM Queue Now Online
ACM Queue magazine has now moved online. It features a number of articles and blogs on emergent technologies and issues of software engineering.
From The Noisy Channel
Something Jeff Jarvis and I Agree On
Recently I had a bit of a spat with Jeff Jarvis over how he characterizes Google’s transparency. Jarvis has positioned himself as the standard-bearer for all things...
From The Noisy Channel
Something Jeff Jarvis and I Agree On
Recently I had a bit of a spat with Jeff Jarvis over how he characterizes Google’s transparency. Jarvis has positioned himself as the standard-bearer for all things...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Broad-based Cybersecurity Bill Introduced
Senator Rockefeller (D-West Virginia) introduced last week a bill that would increase the role of the federal government in cybersecurity. S. 773 (text not yet...
From The Noisy Channel
Announcing HCIR
I am proud to announce that HCIR 2009, the third Annual Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval, will take place at the Catholic University...
From The Noisy Channel
Announcing HCIR
I am proud to announce that HCIR 2009, the third Annual Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval, will take place at the Catholic University...
From The Noisy Channel
Great Blogging Tips from SEOmoz
I know that a number of you here are bloggers and trying to earn greater visibility for your blogs. I suggest you check out the “21 Tips to Earn Links and Tweets...
From insideHPC
ISC
The International Supercomputing Conference (ISC), to be held this year in Hamburg, Germany, has issued a call for birds of a feather sessions (PDF) ISC
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Scratch Day
May 16, 2009 is Scratch day! This is an international celebration of Scratch, a software environment designed to help students create, learn, and program. Developed...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Anniversary of Internet Rules
In the NYT: How the Internet Got its Rules. Forty years ago. It should be noted that this is about the Internet, not the Web, which took another twenty yearsDarpanet...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IPhone Home Automation Applications
A list of home automation applications for the IPhone. Companies that are providing them. Again an example of what I would like, a one device world. Standards...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Learning and the Social Web: A Call for Papers
We are preparing a special issue for the
From The Eponymous Pickle
Psych of Twitter
I have blogged for years, conversed on IRC, run e-mail lists and chat groups. Twitter is the first method I have seen where there was a severe limitation of expression...
From insideHPC
Sun
Forbes has an interesting video detailing a few of the high points in Sun’s technological history.
From insideHPC
NITRD testimony before House S&T
Melissa Norr at the CRA Policy Blog gives an excellent overview of yesterday’s testimony before the House S&T committee on the NITRD Act of 2009 (which hasn’t been...
From insideHPC
Rensselaer Announces New VP of
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has announced they have named a new vice president of research.
From insideHPC
NVIDIA graduate fellowships in visual
Late last week NVIDIA announced that it is funding 10 new graduate fellowships to study the use of GPUs in computing under its 8-year old fellowship program More...
From insideHPC
TACC deploys new data intensive computing
Found at HPCwire “Corral,” a system for data-intensive computing and storage, is the newest resource to be deployed by the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC)...
From insideHPC
Intel charter member of new Consortium on Digital
Late last week energy research company New Energy Finance announced the charter members of a new organization started to develop a better understanding of what...
From insideHPC