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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 CSDiary
Travelogue: Reflections on the Future for Computing Researchers
OK, I admit it. During the past two weeks I got in a bit over my head, time-wise. But, I’ve gotten through it, and I’m feeling pretty satisfied with the results...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
ACM Washington Update, Vol. 13.3 (April 3, 2009)
CONTENTS [1] Newsletter Highlights [2] Computing Groups Call for More Focus on Computing Education [3] 2008 ACM Turing Award Recognizes Dr. Barbara Liskov [4]...
From Wild WebMink
Three Links Showing What We Need To Fix
Financial Derivatives Explained Wonderful, clear, vaguely funny explanation of what "derivatives" are and why anyone watching should have understood it would all...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Goodbye SGI
A colleague of mine was a founder of SGI. I was asked if I wanted to join them when they started up. We used their graphics engines to do package design in the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shoppers Making Decisions In-Store
Miller Zell study on where and why shoppers are making buying decisions. Surprising to me is that they did not find in-store digital signage to be influentialtalks...
From insideHPC
Analyst speculates rumored IBM/Sun deal could eliminate 10,000
From Forbes today comes a thought experiment exploring what might happen if the IBM/Sun deal actually happens The outlook: This could be a particularly messy merger...
From The Eponymous Pickle
This Blog now on the ACM Site
This blog, among a number of others, is now featured on the re-designed Communications of the ACM site. I have been a member of the ACM since grad school and...
From insideHPC
SiCortex Announces Record
The folks over at SiCortex today announced record growth in Q1 of 2009, to the tune of 100%.
From Putting People First
Intel/GE healthcare alliance underlines strategic value of ethnographic research
If you ever need a solid case on why ethnographic research can provide strategic value to companies, yesterday’s announcement of the $250 million Intel/GE healthcare...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Online Couponing
From Retailwire, a good discussion on online couponing. Nothing very surprising, but a good overview of issues.
From insideHPC
Harvard named next CUDA center of
Harvard joins Taiwan U, U of Utah, and UIUC as the company’s latest CUDA Center of Excellence NVIDIA Corporation, inventor of the GPU, today announced that Harvard...
From insideHPC
Terabit Ethernet on the
Article at Network World this week on developments on the terabit Ethernet front Looking down the LAN road, the Terabit Ethernet milestone is very much in sight...
From Springenwerk Blog
Ruby Deutsche Bank CSV Converter
I've recently signed up with FreeAgentCentral. It's a really great service, but it didn't like Deutsche Bank's CSV files. That's why I wrote a converter. Check....
From insideHPC
New version of Berkeley Lab Checkpoint Restart
Found at HPCwire A combustion researcher may run a huge simulation of a laboratory-scale flame experiment on a supercomputer to better understand the turbulence...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Free IPhone App Course
Stanford University has released a free 10 week course on developing IPhone applications. Based on a Stanford course, online participants see all content, but do...
From insideHPC
Google unveils its super secret server design, DC and batteries built
Thanks to Twitter user Yeraze (of Vizworld.com fame) for passing this c|net article on to insideHPC World HQ. On Wednesday Google took the wraps off its custom...
From insideHPC
SC09 Tech Program submissions deadline
From SC09’s web site SC09, the international conference for high performance computing, networking, storage and analysis, which opens November 14th in Portland,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gestural Interfaces
A good piece on gestural interfaces and some of their recent developments and applications. I have used everything from paper tape to light pens to the foot-mouse...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fail Fast
Via Steve King. Good article: The Importance of Failed Innovation. The comments also make some good points. I will add that it is also about managing your failure...
From Computer Science Teachers Association