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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
Bill Moggridge wins Cooper-Hewitt Lifetime Achievement Award
Today, Cooper-Hewitt Director Paul Warwick Thompson announced the winners and finalists of the 2009 National Design Awards, which recognise excellence across a...
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links for 2009-04-30
Name of deadly flu virus causes consternation EU officials clearly not considering the impact on the book industry of their proposed...
From insideHPC
Intel tops EPA green power rankings, IBM, HP, Sun
Timothy Prickett Morgan has an article at The Register today about the EPA’s latest quarterly ranking of organizations who report their renewable power consumption...
From insideHPC
More free computational science courses, deadline May
The Great Lakes Consortium for Petascale Computation (one of the Blue Waters partners) is announcing a May 18 deadline for application to two free computational...
From Putting People First
A selection of CHI2009 papers
Today I spent some time looking through the CHI 2009 papers. Here is a personal selection (and you need an ACM membership to access them): A comparative study of...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
President Obama Addresses the National Academies
On Monday, President Obama spoke before the National Academies during the National Academy of Sciences' Annual meeting. Both audio and video of the address are...
From insideHPC
EnSight CFD
This week visualization software provider CEI, maker of EnSight, announced the launch of EnSight CFD This new CFD visualization product has an interface specifically...
From insideHPC
Green design can add to costs, but that isn
From Enterprise IT Planet’s weekly news roundup, a few items of green news that you can drop at your next center staff meeting IT hosting company The Planet unveiled...
From insideHPC
Obama sets goal for largest R&D investment in US
Peter Harsha covered this a couple days ago at the CRA’s Policy Blog, but I managed to miss it then. The President used a speech before the members of the National...
From insideHPC
Sun reports Q3, posts
A lot went wrong for Sun’s business in the third quarter: Revenues for the third quarter of fiscal 2009 were $2.614 billion, as compared with $3.266 billion for...
From insideHPC
Behind Blue
My pal Bill Kramer (who I just interviewed as part of a project I’m doing that I’ll talk more about in a week or so) has center stage in a video NCSA just released...
From Putting People First
Is Interaction Design a dead-end job?
Tim McCoy of Cooper thinks it is, at least as a service offering and a career path. “IDEO
From Putting People First
Social networking sites as building tools
anthrodesign is a Yahoo! group of (currently 1693) individuals interested in the role of applied anthropology in the corporate, public sector, and medical contexts...
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User-centred design improves workflows in radiology
From an article on eHealthNews: “The software developers at Siemens Healthcare have come up with something special for customers employing Siemens PACS (Picture...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Quest for Computable Knowledge
Stephen Wolfram posts a short timeline of a Quest for Computable Knowledge. Certainly some interesting mentions. Includes things like Wolfram's New Kind of Science...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nielsen on Global Media
A very good pdf report on global social media from Nielsen, worth the read.
From CSDiary
Tom Mitchell Named CMU University Professor
An announcement sent out earlier today by Randy Bryant, Dean of the CMU School of Computer Science: I
From insideHPC
Cray reports Q1, posts
Supercomputing stalwart Cray Inc. reported results today for the first fiscal quarter of 2009. From the release Cray Inc. today announced financial results for...
From The Eponymous Pickle