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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
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of April 27
April 28 Hearing: The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee will hold a hearing on cybersecurity. 10 a.m., 342 Dirksen Building The Federal...
From insideHPC
Inside HPC publishing, and the week in
Latest features are up at HPCwire. In my Q&A with Randi Cohen, the Computer Science Acquisitions editor at CRC Press, I pepper her with questions about what she...
From insideHPC
BlueGene to compete on
Found at the NY Times, courtesy of the Computing Research Policy TumbleLog, an article about IBM’s research efforts to develop an application for its BlueGene platform...
From insideHPC
Cloud computing
Joe Landman comments at his blog about one of the problems with cloud computing at the high end: data in motion. He references a news release at HPCwire from a...
From insideHPC
Six years of
From Nigel Dessau’s blog at AMD (he’s the chief marketeer), word of AMD’s 6th birthday (that’s 42 in dog years), and its most recently announced processor tweaks...
From insideHPC
Al Gore to keynote SC09: an exclusive interview with SC09 chair Wilf
SC09, the HPC community’s largest technical conference, trade show, and annual homecoming, has announced that Al Gore (yes, the Nobel Prize winning, Academy Award...
From The Noisy Channel
Who Wants To Play
That would be IBM Research, for millions of dollars (I suspect). I’ve known about the Jeopardy project for a while from colleagues at IBM, and I’m glad I can finally...
From The Noisy Channel
Who Wants To Play
That would be IBM Research, for millions of dollars (I suspect). I’ve known about the Jeopardy project for a while from colleagues at IBM, and I’m glad I can finally...
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Business Intelligence
Tom Davenport on what he calls the new Business Intelligence. He studied Procter's analytical capabilities among a number of other companies. Pretty good though...
From Putting People First
Vodafone
After a short hiatus, Vodafone’s Receiver Magazine is updated again with a series of articles under the heading “Seizing the Moment”. The first one in the series...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-04-26
NewsMap If you've never looked at this news visualisation application before, and you are the sort of person who checks pages like...
From Putting People First
Co-creation
Fronteer Strategy, an Amsterdam-based management strategy consulting firm, has published a short (6-page) paper on co-creation, in which they argue that there are...
From Putting People First
Design Fiction, an Interactions Magazine cover story by Bruce Sterling
As a contributing editor for Interactions Magazine, I am tasked with finding clever people to write a story for the magazine. My first choice was Bruce Sterling...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sears IPhone Application
I downloaded the Sear2Go application for the IPhone and played with it. Fairly basic interface that worked well on WiFi. Was able to browse deals, coupons and...
From Putting People First
Africa Gathering in London
Today was the Africa Gathering in London and ICT4D, an Austrian NGO dealing with ICT for development, has done an excellent job at summarising them: Summaries 1...
From Putting People First
Keeping it real: Interaction in the real world
The latest issue of Interfaces Magazine, a quarterly magazine published by Interaction, the specialist HCI group of the British Computer Society (BCS), is all devoted...
From Putting People First
European Commission launches public consultation on design as a driver of user-centred innovation
Yesterday, the European Commission launched a public consultation on design and innovation on the basis of a recent Commission staff working document on “Design...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Moral Instinct and Norman Borlaug
I was pointed to an item in the NYT by Steven Pinker on Moral instinct which points to Norman Borlaug. Name sounded familiar but did not register. The article...
From The Eponymous Pickle