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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 U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Policy Highlights from Communications of the ACM - April 2008 (Vol. 52, No. 4)
Items in the April issue of Communications of the ACM that have policy relevance. Remember, much of the material in CACM is considered premium content. You will...
From Apophenia
upcoming conferences/talks
Now that I'm working at Microsoft Research, I'm doing a bit more public/academic speaking, but I've done a terrible job of announcing where and when. So let me...
From insideHPC
InsideTrack: Rumors that two bidders survived the SGI
Industry sources say that only two bidders made it through the diligence process willing to submit a bid: Rackable, and a group of creditors, and that Rackable...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ariely on Experimentation and Measurement
In SASCom Voices: Dan Ariely on experimentation and measurement. Always an important issue.
From insideHPC
Cray Expands Reseller List for CX-1
Cray has announced that it has expanded its global set of resellers of the popular CX-1 deskside unit. We are pleased with the progress we are making with the Cray...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-04-29
Child behaviour 'linked to sleep' So parents have been right all these years? Who would have guessed. (tags: children...
From Putting People First
Book
The Plenitude Creativity, Innovation, and Making Stuff Rich Gold Foreword by John Maeda MIT Press, September 2007 We live with a lot of stuff. The average kitchen...
From Putting People First
Research on how teenagers use news sites
The Newspaper Association of America (NAA) Foundation has published a report on a study on how teenagers use news sites. “The NAA Foundation and the Media Management...
From insideHPC
Panasas and Dell Partner on Life
Panasas announced today a new partnership with Dell aimed at developing integrated compute and storage solutions for the life-sciences market.
From Putting People First
Prepaid economies and bottom of the pyramid research in Helsinki
Recent Experientia collaborator and emerging markets expert Niti Bhan, who is currently based in Helsinki, Finland (where we met her yesterday), is involved with...
From insideHPC
ISC keynotes focus on lean brain management, next generation HPC, and
The 2009 International Supercomputing Conference (held this year June 23-26 in Hamburg, Germany) has announced its slate of four keynote addresses Tuesday, June...
From CSDiary
A New Era in Support for Science Research
Two days ago, President Obama set the remarkably ambitious goal of spending 3% of the US gross domestic product on basic and applied science research. If achieved...
From The Noisy Channel
Google Shows Wolfram Who
I actually feel bad for Stephen Wolfram. After all the weeks of hype leading up to his public demonstration of Wolfram Alpha at Harvard this afternoon, Google upstaged...
From The Noisy Channel
Google Shows Wolfram Who
I actually feel bad for Stephen Wolfram. After all the weeks of hype leading up to his public demonstration of Wolfram Alpha at Harvard this afternoon, Google upstaged...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Twitter Quitters Grow
According to Nielsen News Wire only about 40% of the system's users comes back the following month. More stats at the site with overdone curve fitting. Twitter...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analyzing Coupons with Biometrics
Overview of work done by Neurofocus on the reaction of consumers to coupons and promotions. Multiple biometrics techniques used. Analyzing print and online coupons...
From insideHPC
Apple Picks up Graphics
MSN Money via the Inquirer: Apple has hired graphics wizard Bob Drebin away from AMD’s graphics group.
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
End the University as We Know It: My Commentary
Mark C. Taylor is quickly becoming famous for his New York Times piece End the University as We Know It.
From insideHPC
Power down for the planet winner
Back in February we covered a challenge issued by the Climate Savers Computing Initiative to encourage universities reduce pollution by powering down campus computers...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM