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WolframAlpha Briefing
From The Eponymous Pickle

WolframAlpha Briefing

Attended the WolframAlpha briefing today, which consisted of an overview by Steven Wolfram and his demonstration of his very ambitious interactive knowledge system...

"Living and Learning with Social Media"
From Apophenia

"Living and Learning with Social Media"

Over the weekend, I gave a talk at the Penn State Symposium for Teaching and Learning with Technology. I have made a crib of the talk available for anyone who might...

Quantum databases: what are they good for?
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Quantum databases: what are they good for?

Hu et al. just posted An efficient quantum search engine on unsorted database. They refer to an older paper by Patel (2001), Quantum database search can do without...

Nokia and Augmented Reality
From The Eponymous Pickle

Nokia and Augmented Reality

Short piece on augmented reality that Nokia is developing for cell phones. The potential retail applications are considerable. I also am looking for the inclusion...

So What is a Quick Trip?
From The Eponymous Pickle

So What is a Quick Trip?

Herb Sorensen of TNS Sorensen covers the topic of a quick trip in grocery retail in a recent post. This is covered in more detail in his forthcoming book: Inside...

Google Similar Images: A Glitch?
From The Noisy Channel

Google Similar Images: A Glitch?

After my post yesterday about Google’s new image similarity search, a colleague sent me this link: Oops! But, more importantly, it argues strongly that Google...

Google Similar Images: A Glitch?
From The Noisy Channel

Google Similar Images: A Glitch?

After my post yesterday about Google’s new image similarity search, a colleague sent me this link: Oops! But, more importantly, it argues strongly that Google...

links for 2009-04-21
From Wild WebMink

links for 2009-04-21

The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison This was the first book I read about Oracle. (tags: Oracle Book Amazon...

Reg open for accelerators in HPC
From insideHPC

Reg open for accelerators in HPC

A quickie from NCSA Registration is now open for the Symposium on Application Accelerators in High-Performance Computing (SAAHPC’09), which will be held July 27...

SiCortex revises green performance index, intros
From insideHPC

SiCortex revises green performance index, intros

Today HPC vendor SiCortex revised its Green Computing Performance Index (GCPI, which we first covered when it was announced back in November) based on what it referred...

Advertorials Preferred To Ads?
From The Noisy Channel

Advertorials Preferred To Ads?

From “Brand Mentions Preferred over Ads” in eMarketer: Compared with banner ads, pop-up ads, e-mail offers and sponsored links, articles that include brand information...

Advertorials Preferred To Ads?
From The Noisy Channel

Advertorials Preferred To Ads?

From “Brand Mentions Preferred over Ads” in eMarketer: Compared with banner ads, pop-up ads, e-mail offers and sponsored links, articles that include brand information...

Sun Revamps HPC
From insideHPC

Sun Revamps HPC

Sun has revamped their public HPC website.

Paul Gillin on RSS Feeds
From The Eponymous Pickle

Paul Gillin on RSS Feeds

Some quarters have been talking about Twitter replacing syndication feeds like RSS. Paul Gillin makes the case that they are still of value. I agree.

What are your information needs? (Knight Commission seeks feedback)
From Apophenia

What are your information needs? (Knight Commission seeks feedback)

What information do Americans need to accomplish the personal goals and to be effective citizens in our democracy? How are they getting their news and information...

NASA Ames moves from Sun to SpectraLogic, cuts silos by
From insideHPC

NASA Ames moves from Sun to SpectraLogic, cuts silos by

Found at Computerworld.com NASA’s Ames Research Center, announced today that it has consolidated its tape libraries from 10 silos to two, allowing it to reclaim...

NVIDIA releases OpenCL driver for early access
From insideHPC

NVIDIA releases OpenCL driver for early access

Yesterday NVIDIA announced the release of an OpenCL driver and SDK for developers in its early access program (we’ve covered OpenCL before in lots of places; here...

Google: News Timeline
From The Noisy Channel

Google: News Timeline

The other day, when I was blogging about Google’s news cluster timelines, I lamented their lack of a unified approach towards visualizing news over time. Their...

Google: News Timeline
From The Noisy Channel

Google: News Timeline

The other day, when I was blogging about Google’s news cluster timelines, I lamented their lack of a unified approach towards visualizing news over time. Their...

Google Similar Image Search
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Similar Image Search

Google image search now lets you find images that are similar to those brought up in a search. You can't load up an image and use it as a prototype to find similar...
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