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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
SustainIT - a supplement worth reading
The Independent today introduced SustainIT, the first in a series of three monthly supplements on ICT and globalisation. Some of the articles in the supplement...
From insideHPC
H+L Architecture Named NCAR Design
H+L Architecture has been named the design firm for the new National Center for Atmospheric Research [NCAR] facility in Wyoming.
From CSDiary
Veloso Wins ACM SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award
The ACM SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award has been given to CMU Computer Science Professor Manuela Veloso. The award is given at the International Conference...
From The Eponymous Pickle
3D Patient Record Interface
A clever 3D patient record interface by IBM Research Zurich. Obvious in the sense that it uses a 3D manipulable image for something that is complex and 3D: the...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
ACM Turing Award Goes to Creator of Influential Innovations in Computer Software Design
MIT's Liskov, First U.S. Woman Ph.D. in Computer Science, Pioneered the Standard for Modern Programming Language and Software Reliability ACM, the Association...
From Putting People First
Tactical tech
Tactical Tech is an international NGO helping human rights advocates use information, communications and digital technologies to maximise the impact of their advocacy...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Skittles Marketing Experiment
A recent experiment by Mars using a number of Web 2.0 services on their site is nicely summarized by Paul Gillin: Skittles' Bold Social Media Experiment. The idea...
From Putting People First
An anthropologist gone techno
Jukka Jouhki (blog), an anthropologist and post-doc researcher at the Department of History and Ethnology at the University of Jyv
From Putting People First
Social media is here to stay
danah boyd, a Fellow at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, just joined Microsoft Research New England On 29 February, she gave her first...
From Apophenia
it's time for SXSW!!
After taking a break to finish my dissertation, I'm heading back to SXSW and I. Cannot. Wait. SXSW is one of my favorite-ist conferences evah. It's filled with...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Paper Water Bottles
In a conversation with the design company Brand-Image I was introduced to their design concept: the paper water bottle. An example at the right. Some true alternative...
From insideHPC
Ballad of the Massively Parallel Supercomputing
And this is my first music post. Always something to celebrate here at insideHPC. Mike Bernhardt
From CSDiary
Claytronics on Slashdot
The Claytronics Project has hit Slashdot (again) today. See the post by clicking here. Jason Campbell (Intel Research Pittsburgh) is quoted in the article, and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Guidelines for Behavior Ads
From the BBC, a new trend?New guidelines on behavioural ads UK ISPs stand to make a lot of money from targeted advertising. The online advertising industry has...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
ACM Washington Update, Vol. 13.2 (March 8, 2009)
CONTENTS [1] Newsletter Highlights [2] USACM Outlines Technical Principles for Open Government [3] USACM Hails Boosts in Research Funding [4] NIST Presents New...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of March 9
March 10 Hearing The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on patent reform, with a focus on recent court decisions and possible legislation. 10 a.m.,...
From insideHPC
AT&T wants to run your
Well, maybe not your HPC datacenter, but they are definitely lining up to run big enterprise datacenters, and $19B business in 2008. From an article at The Register...
From insideHPC
BNP Paribas deploys Tesla-based
BNP Paribas Corporate and Investment Banking announced last week that they have deployed a new CPU-based computer A significant portion of the calculations, about...
From Apophenia
"Social Media is Here to Stay... Now What?"
Last week, I gave my first talk at Microsoft since joining MSR. This talk was part of the annual Tech Fest where researchers from labs around the world come and...
From CSDiary