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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 Putting People First
NESTA launches innovation lab to improve UK public services
NESTA, the UK’s National Endowment for Science, Technology, and the Arts, has set up The Lab, a new UK innovation structure that will bring together all the players...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Beyond Minority Report Interfaces: Sixth Sense
Very interesting TED talk presentation on gesture driven wearable devices by Pattie Maes. What I found particularly interesting is the inclusion of a projector...
From insideHPC
HPC and cloud computing,
I don’t usually link to my own stuff, but you may find this interesting. I just finished an article/Q&A with Dan Reed, longtime HPC’er, science and computation...
From insideHPC
Sun
Sun’s CEO is doing a series on his blog about his company’s strategic imperatives: 1. Technology Adoption 2. Commercial Innovation 3. Efficiently Connecting 1....
From Putting People First
Alan Cooper on the similarities between interaction designers and agile programmers
During the Agile 2008 conference, Amr Elssamadisy interviewed Alan Cooper, the father of Visual Basic and supporter of interaction design. He talked about his contact...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Voice is Coming
I have used Google-acquired Grandcentral for about a year now. It has been very useful, especially if you need to consolidate multiple numbers such as landlineGoogle...
From Wild WebMink
Friday link roundup on March 13
USDOJ: OPA: Publicly Distributed Documents The documents themselves are fascinating, but the fact they are being made available (at least initially) as PDFs ofIBM...
From Putting People First
What Matters at McKinsey
Consulting firm McKinsey has just launched a new website, called What Matters, that is an extensive collection of essays and interviews with opinion formers around...
From Putting People First
Designing the democratic
Jamie Owen, a visual information specialist for a training arm of the USA Department of Veterans Affairs argues on Boxes and Arrows that thinking outside of our...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neurofocus Expands
Nielsen funded Neurofocus has announced its purchase of European based Neuroco to form what is likely the largest company that is applying Neuromarketing concepts...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Skittles Data Mining
Data mining the Skittles social media experiment by Manya Mayes, SAS text mining strategist. Not a lot of results yet, indicates more to come. Good pointers about...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Pi Day Challenge
As head of CSTA's Professional Development Committee, I received the following message, which I thought might be of interest to many of you: My name is Matthew...
From insideHPC
Australia says world
An article featured in The Western Australian yesterday outlines the region’s hopes for winning the Square Kilometre Array deepspace telescope bid, and getting...
From insideHPC
YouTube video: cloud computing a disruptive
Found via AMDOpteron on Twitter (follow insideHPC), a YouTube video from the IDC Cloud Computing Forum in San Francisco with brief on camera thoughts from IDC,...
From insideHPC
Even supercomputers not yet close to the raw power of human
Scientific American has a blog post this week about the IEEE’s 125th anniversary event. During the event one of the scientists present commented on his DARPA-funded...
From insideHPC
Benmarking for HPC: focus on the whole
Short post on one of the Intel blogs about benchmarking in HPC, and the need to focus (or refocus, as the author frames it) on total application performance Want...
From Springenwerk Blog
FOWA Dublin 2009 Recap
I think there are 2 letters to sum up this event: OK. Content-wise, it was between OK and great. The organization of the event was terrible, though: The venue was...
From insideHPC
New HPC platform aimed at financial
Kuberre Systems announced a new HPC platform today aimed primarily at the financial services industry. The platform, called HANSA, bundles hardware and software...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sony TV Includes a Scanner
Storefrontbacktalk posts about a new Sony TV's remote which can act as a touchless RFID scanner. Nice idea.
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