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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 …
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SC09 Tech Program submissions deadline
From SC09’s web site SC09, the international conference for high performance computing, networking, storage and analysis, which opens November 14th in Portland,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gestural Interfaces
A good piece on gestural interfaces and some of their recent developments and applications. I have used everything from paper tape to light pens to the foot-mouse...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fail Fast
Via Steve King. Good article: The Importance of Failed Innovation. The comments also make some good points. I will add that it is also about managing your failure...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Presidential Awards for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, Engineering Mentoring
If you know an organization or an individual who is doing outstanding work mentoring underrepresented students in computing, you might want to nominate them for...
From Wild WebMink
Thursday's Link Roundup on April 2nd
The ACTA Timeline (or Everything You Need To Know About ACTA But Your Government Won't Tell You) This legislation appears to be the work of bureaucrats withoutFree...
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AMD comments on
HPCwire’s Michael Feldman posted a feature yesterday on AMD’s response to Intel’s latest chip I spoke with John Fruehe, AMD’s worldwide business development manager...
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Computing research that changed the world symposium slides
A quickie from the CCC blog Slides from all speakers at the remarkable March 25th Library of Congress symposium
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NCSA researcher to edit special issue of IEEE
News from NCSA this week NCSA researcher Volodymyr Kindratenko and colleagues David Bader (Georgia Institute of Technology) and David Kaeli (Northeastern University)...
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Fixstars Announces GPU Software
Fixstars Corp, proprietors of Cell/BE software and services, have announced a new software service based on NVIDIA CUDA GPU technology.
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Open MPI team announces iPhone, BlackBerry apps, support for Twitter, and EnergyStar
The Open MPI team made a splash in the HPC press yesterday (01 April) with a far-reaching announcement that has us looking for ways to buy Open MPI stock The Open...
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InsideTrack: Penguin CEO on the SGI/Rackable
After the announcement yesterday we started rifling through our Rolodexes here at insideHPC HQ looking for industry comment. Predictably, most of the folks we got...
From insideHPC
Star-P now
This week Interactive Supercomputing announced that its Star-P product is now certifiable…er, certified (couldn’t resist) Star-P lets scientists, analysts and engineers...
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10th Russian Top50
The 10th annual Russian Top50 list was released on Tuesday. You can find the list here, but unless you can read Russian it won’t do you much good. Happily, though...
From CERIAS Blog
Symposium Transcript: Complexity vs. Security
Dr. Ronald W. Ritchey, Booz, Allen, Hamilton Transcribed and edited by Jacques Thomas. The speaker was introduced by Joel Rasmus. Dr. Ron Ritchey and Booz Allen...
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India
Cray announced today that the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics in Calcutta, India has selected their Cray CT5 supercomputer as the next compute platform for its...
From The Eponymous Pickle
RFID - Enabled Loyalty Program
An interesting example of using RFID tags to enable a loyalty program. Touchless systems are by their nature more convenient than scans.RFID-enabled in-store marketing...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Library of Congress symposium slides are up!
Slides from all speakers at the remarkable March 25th Library of Congress symposium “Computing Research that Changed the World:
From Computer Science Teachers Association
New AccessIT Web Design & Development Curriculum
The University of Washington and a team of high school web design teachers have put together some free curriculum that is well organized, up to date, and full of...
From insideHPC
SGI, Rackable, and the stalking
SGI sent out a letter to its support customers, which you can read here, that supplies a little more detail and a magic phrase that led to some interesting insight...
From Putting People First