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Google: Find Similar Images
From The Noisy Channel

Google: Find Similar Images

I spend a fair amount of time critizing Google for not embracing exploratory search. But today’s launch of a similar images feature is all about exploration, and...

Google: Find Similar Images
From The Noisy Channel

Google: Find Similar Images

I spend a fair amount of time critizing Google for not embracing exploratory search. But today’s launch of a similar images feature is all about exploration, and...

Oracle/Sun deal FAQ: Hardware, MySQL, yes. HPC, Vis, Lustre? Who
From insideHPC

Oracle/Sun deal FAQ: Hardware, MySQL, yes. HPC, Vis, Lustre? Who

The FAQ [PDF] on Oracle’s Sun acquisition page has corporate answers to some of the questions we’ve been debating in email today. I’ll pull out a few; recommend...

Sorry About The Typos!
From The Noisy Channel

Sorry About The Typos!

I discovered belatedly that the Microsoft Word template my publisher had given me was suppressing spelling correction. My bad, I should have realized something...

Sorry About The Typos!
From The Noisy Channel

Sorry About The Typos!

I discovered belatedly that the Microsoft Word template my publisher had given me was suppressing spelling correction. My bad, I should have realized something...

RIP Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Sciences (PGSS)
From Apophenia

RIP Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Sciences (PGSS)

I have been quite fortunate over the years. I have received numerous opportunities that afforded me opportunities to go far and do amazing things. One such opportunity...

Non-Normal Thinking
From The Eponymous Pickle

Non-Normal Thinking

Herb Sorensen on Seafood shopping and non-normal thinking. This odd congruence is yet another example of why you should never accept normal distributions as an...

Hill Tech Happenings, Week of April 20
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM

Hill Tech Happenings, Week of April 20

April 23 Hearing: The Communications, Technology and the Internet Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee will hold a hearing on recent developments...

Dominos PR Crisis
From The Eponymous Pickle

Dominos PR Crisis

AdAge overviews the YouTube PR Crisis at Domino's Pizza. What they did right and wrong, with comparisons to other previous PR emergency cases. Though the case...

Oracle in
From insideHPC

Oracle in

News out today that IBM is out and Oracle is in at Sun. From a story at CNNMoney.com Business software maker Oracle Corp. said Monday it has entered into a definitive...

Fast Business Intelligence
From The Eponymous Pickle

Fast Business Intelligence

Good overview piece on players loading and delivering BI intelligence data. I have been exploring related approaches for virtual retail spaces lately.

links for 2009-04-20
From Wild WebMink

links for 2009-04-20

Editorial - The Torturers

Programmable Tattoos
From The Eponymous Pickle

Programmable Tattoos

A report in Slashdot on under skin displays, with a somewhat similar idea of tattoos that can act as displays. A bit reminiscent of injectable RFID tags, which...

How to initiate collaboration in science
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

How to initiate collaboration in science

You have read someone’s work and you have ideas about how to extend their work. You are also interested in working with them on your ideas? Or maybe you just want...

Computerworld wonders what the heck the DoD was
From insideHPC

Computerworld wonders what the heck the DoD was

Although they put it more politely, in this article which ran on Friday at Computerworld.com. By February, Silicon Graphics Inc. was in deep trouble. It was shedding...

NSF awards support science with cloud
From insideHPC

NSF awards support science with cloud

Found at HPCwire, news that NSF has awarded a series of grants to UW to support the cause of scientists using clouds for research The University of Washington has...

How good is the mobile net experience
From Putting People First

How good is the mobile net experience

BBC technology reporter Maggie Shiels reflects on the quality of the mobile net experience. The article contains many quotes from industry representatives, but...

Wild guess that noisy chips won
From insideHPC

Wild guess that noisy chips won

Here’s an interesting idea from the NewScientist While researchers are striving to make the models more realistic, they are limited by the processing power of the...

Real scale, and the week in
From insideHPC

Real scale, and the week in

Latest features are up at HPCwire. In “Real scale, real problems” I discuss last Yahoo!’s most recent announcement that three new universities are joining Carnegie...

Nokia
From Putting People First

Nokia

Nokia’s IdeasProject site contains this week a video interview with Don Tapscott, and four feature articles that integrate some of the ideas presented thus far...
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