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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 U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Internet Privacy Bill Possible in this Congress
The Bits blog at The New York Times recently ran an interview with Representative Rick Boucher (D-VA) the new Chair of the Subcommittee on Communications, Technology...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Free Software and Copyright Law
Legal thoughts from a presentation by Richard Stallman. Once again the very odd implications of copyright law.
From Putting People First
Dimensions of compelling mobile experiences
Dave Zuvernik, senior user research specialist on Adobe XD
From The Eponymous Pickle
Haptic Jackets
Haptics are the study of using touch as input or output. Touch is a hard sense to deliver or detect precisely. Now the promise of a 'haptic jacket' which will...
From Wild WebMink
Forcing Dutch procurement to be transparent
You may remember last September I published an interview with crusading Dutch IT journalist Brenno de Winter. During our meeting, we discussed the sorry state of...
From Springenwerk Blog
WWDC 2009 - Got My Ticket
This year, Apple has waited excruciatingly long to announce the dates for their annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC). Last year they announced the dates...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
My Day at the Library of Congress
A contribution from Susan Graham, the Pehong Chen Professor of Computer Science at the University of California at Berkeley, and co-chair of the CCC Council: I
From insideHPC
LONI Gains 4.77 Tflops With
The Louisiana Optical Network Initiative [LONI], today announced that it has gained an additional 4.77 Tflop of computational capacity with its latest supercomputer...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Click on Image
An interesting new startup that combines crowdsourcing with the ability to click on pictures within images to order products.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Blog Typology Analysis
Archetype analyze a blog. This blog is classified as INTJ (Introversion, Intuitive, Thinking, Judgemental), not surprising, a classic Jungian-based Myers-Briggs...
From insideHPC
CERN and Argonne use science clouds for
Their phrase, not mine…here, I’ll prove it. From the release A novel system is enabling high energy physicists at CERN in Switzerland, to make production runs that...
From insideHPC
9 operating systems that time
Matt Lake, waxes nostalgic at Computerworld and remembers 10 operating systems from the halcyon days of yore (that’s right, I said “yore”). You’re not really supposed...
From insideHPC
IBM shifts 5,000 US jobs overseas
This is reported in several places, but I’ll link you to John Oates at The Register. According to the story IBM is cutting 5,000 jobs today, mostly in the US and...
From insideHPC
NVIDIA:
At the beginning of March I pointed to a story in which Michael Hara, SVP of Investor Relations for NVIDIA, was quoted saying that it would “make sense” for NVIDIA...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Profile Update
I just updated my Linkedin Profile, including a new recommendation. As part of some of my previous work I maintain a presence in a number of social networking...
From insideHPC
Linux on Wall
Doug over at ClusterMonkey has a post today on the upcoming Linux on Wall Street event If you are in the North Jersey/New York/Connecticut (and even Pennsylvania)...
From insideHPC
ScalableInformatics intros GPU+Cell
Michigan-based HPC storage and compute provider ScalableInformatics announced today that they are now offering IBM’s Cell in their Tesla-based workstations The...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Freeman Dyson
Good NYT mag piece on my long time, very iconoclastic hero, physicist Freeman Dyson. His WP article is also a good summary.
From The Eponymous Pickle
One Version of the Truth in Business Intelligence
From eCommerce Times:" ... After spending lots of time and money on business intelligence reporting and analysis, many companies often find themselves with multiple...
From Putting People First