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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 insideHPC
Monsters vs. Aliens: 100 Terabytes, 1,000 years of rendering, and
The boys and I saw Monsters vs. Aliens this weekend. They loved it, I enjoyed it, and I was astonished at the visual quality of what used to be the hard stuff in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Colgate's Mini Disposable Toothbrush
Colgate continues to do very well. " ... Colgate thinks it could score with the Wisp, set to debut on Apr. 6. Several years in development, it's a disposable mini...
From insideHPC
Work with NCSA in the Google Summer of
The optics on this are great: marry an HPTC research organization with the cool hip chic-ness of Google. From the release NCSA has been selected as a mentor organization...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of March 30
March 31 Markup: The Research and Science Education Subcommittee of the House Science and Technology Committee will markup pending legislation, including the STEM...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google on Emotion and Computing
All intelligence has an emotional component. Thus it is not unexpected that artificial intelligence has an emotional element. We all experience it. The frustration...
From Wild WebMink
Manchester, Olso, San Francisco - Upcoming Gigs
I've got some speaking engagements coming up, two of them free of charge. This Wednesday I'll be at Manchester United FC delivering the opening keynote at the Local...
From insideHPC
Macedonia
There was sketchy news on the computerwebs on Friday that Macedonia has just installed its very first supercomputer (no, I didn’t where Macedonia was either: it’s...
From insideHPC
Intel Details Future Graphics
On Friday of last week, Intel decided to unveil more details on its upcoming graphics chip, Larrabee.
From insideHPC
Cray option buy back
Remember back at the end of February when insideHPC broke the news that Cray was offering to buy back drowning options from employees as a gesture of goodwill?...
From insideHPC
Today
I wrote a feature last week for HPCwire on solid state drives. I had two goals: first, to provide a little background for those wondering exactly what an SSD is...
From insideHPC
The week in
My regular weekly feature at HPCwire was up late last week; from that article’s introduction Sun sells supers down under for weather prediction; new Rackable solution...
From insideHPC
Oxford installs supercomputer from Streamline
In mid-March I had an email show up in the insideHPC news hopper with a pointer to news that the University of Oxford had just installed a new cluster from Streamline...
From insideHPC
Academic HPC
A couple weeks ago I invited vendors with academic discounts to send me info and I’d do a round up here in response to what looked like a growing trend. I only...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fun not Fear
Barb Didrichsen points me to a new site by Phil Terry: Fun not Fear. " ... The science and math behind 'bad news' With the "fun not fear" Facebook campaign, we...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
More on
Susan Graham provided a great overview in a post a few days ago of the Computing Community Consortium’s March 25th day-long Library of Congress symposium, “Computing...
From Wild WebMink
Sunday Link Selection on March 29
I've finally reached home again after two weeks of travel in the US and Europe; here are a few links to celebrate.Waiting for the Barbarians by C. P. Cavafy "Now...
From CERIAS Blog
Cyber security challenges and windmills
[Note: the following is primarily about U.S. Government policies, but I believe several points can be generalized to other countries.] I was editing a section of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
BusinessWeek on Business Intelligence
Fairly good piece on Business Intelligence, saying its time is now because it will be the method to get the kind of efficiency that will be required to survive...
From Wild WebMink
Twilight Zone Over
That's it - Europe is now messing with the clock too, so the usual northern hemisphere time-zone spacings are back in place and the Twilight Zone is ended. Now...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog