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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
From Congo to Kathmandu, how mobiles have transformed the world
The Guardian published a special section on the role of mobile phones in emerging markets: Nice talking to you … mobile phone use passes milestone A UN report reveals...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Useful Sketch Tagging Examined
I recently mentioned the service called Sketchory, which contains 250K free-to-use sketches. Like the image on the right which I got when I asked for 'abstract'...
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Inspiring stories at LIFT09
The last day of the LIFT conference started off with a session devoted to inspiring stories from people with extraordinary projects and lives. Designer Matt Webb...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Trouble for In-Store Marketing?
Are more decisions being made at home? So says AdAge in a new post based on a survey. Trouble in Store for Shopper Marketing?. Survey: Recession-Hit ShoppersBased...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Physical Sciences May Have Modest Gains in 2009 Budget
On Wednesday the House passed a bill to cover spending for most federal agencies for the last six months of fiscal year 2009. The first six months were covered...
From insideHPC
Kraken Has Passed
The Cray XT5 supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Lab named ‘Kraken’ has officially been accepted by the National Science Foundation as being ready for production...
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Microsoft
Microsoft Office Labs is a group within Microsoft that tests ideas by building prototypes and gathering usage data to inform ongoing and future research and development...
From insideHPC
Ferrari Driving More than Sports
Ferrari is driving innovation in more than just its high performance sports cars these days.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Pinker on Genomes
One of my favorite writers, Steven Pinker in the NYT: My Genome, My Self. " ... I had my genome sequenced and am allowing it to be posted on the Internet, along...
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Ch
The Italian newspaper La Stampa reports today on its front page that Venezuelan president Ugo Ch
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World
More than half the world’s population now pay to use a mobile phone and nearly a quarter use the internet, according to an ITU report, as reported by Associated...
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Ericsson and mobile communications in Africa
Ericsson is getting active in African mobile communications and it’s worth checking out what they are up to (even though they don’t prove much, despite the title...
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Microsoft
Microsoft has created a virtual personal assistant that can build a relationship with its user. “Meet Laura, the virtual personal assistant for those of us who...
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Mapping a new, mobile internet
Business Week reports on how a nascent industry involving the likes of Google and Nokia is pinpointing the movements and behaviors of millions of cell-phone users...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Washing Machine Model
An example of a washing machine designed for the third world. A few years ago I was part of a panel for the World Bank that judged investment in inventions like...
From insideHPC
Japan
The Mainichi Daily News, the English-language news site of Japan’s Mainichi Newspapers, is reporting today that the new earth simulator is available for gazing...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
The missing research tool
I want to know when a new research paper… is similar to one of my papers; cites one of my papers; is relevant to my current research. Why can’t I have this...
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