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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 …
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Penguin Computing Making its
eWeek has posted an article on the latest progress made within the camp of Penguin Computing.
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links for 2009-04-28
Database Nation : The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century I read this book by Simson Garfinkel when it first came out. It's still...
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PRACE Offers Summertime Porting
PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, is sponsoring two summer workshops to be held at CSC Finland and CSCS Switzerland as part of a series of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM to Open Analytics Centers
IBM will be opening a number of global analytics centers and hire or retrain 4,000 analytics professionals. They seem to be serious. Press release.
From insideHPC
Rice Buys Appro HyperGreen
Appro announecd today that the Rice University Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology has purchased an Appro HyperGreen Cluster solution.
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Butte Sim Center Close to a Deal with
Earlier this month, the Butte-MT-based National Center for Health Care Informatics signed an agreement with the US Air Force to produce advanced computer-simulated...
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Intel launches Cluster Connection
Last week Intel launched a new website to promote the advantages of its Cluster Ready program. Here is what Intel’s Chip Shots site has to say about the launch Intel...
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Cisco CEO: clouds
From an article late last week at CSO Online, news that Cisco CEO John Chambers is optimistic about the future of cloud computing (which is good given his company’s...
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NSF awards support academic research in Google
Found at HPCwire, news of NSF awards late last week to support academic use of the CluE program [The] National Science Foundation announced it has awarded nearly...
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Lustre Scalability
The folks over at the Sun HPC Watercooler have led us over to a great video on the topic of Lustre scalability.
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Emotional Cartography Resource
Michael W Cristiani passes this along, just now examining.Emotional Cartography: Implications of Visualizing Intimate Biometric Data" ... The (44MB freely downloadable)...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Obama Administration Appoints a Chief Technology Officer
One of the Administration's campaign promises was to create the position of Chief Technology Officer. While the specific job description was vague during the campaign...
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Cray, Fernbach, and Kennedy award nominations due July
Dan Reed has a post on his blog today about the upcoming due dates for HPC’s Nobel Prizes, the Cray and Fernbach awards, plus a brand new one named in honor of...
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Molecular model of brain yields first
From the BBC, news of work presented at the European Future Technologies meeting in Prague on “Blue Brain,” a research effort started in 2005 to reverse engineer...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Organizing Internationally
CSTA's membership continues to grow, and as it does, we strive to find better ways to serve all of our members no matter where they happen to live. At present...
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IBM Takes on Jeopardy
In the NY Times, the technology section : ' ... I.B.M. plans to announce Monday that it is in the final stages of completing a computer program to compete against...
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Consumer Machine Vision
Sammy Haroon, former astute enterprise colleague, writes about work in understanding consumers in real time using machine vision and some of his experiences....
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Cilk++ Multicore
The folks at CilkArts have announced that they will hold a two day course on programming in a multicore environment with Cilk++.
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