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A Computer Science Honor Society?
From Computer Science Teachers Association

A Computer Science Honor Society?

Does your high school have chapters of any subject-specific honor societies, such as Mu Alpha Theta (math), Science National Honor Society, Tri-M (music), or one...

Tabor Research stands by positive HPC outlook in down
From insideHPC

Tabor Research stands by positive HPC outlook in down

Addison Snell at Tabor Research published an interesting read last week at the HPCwire blog. With the economy beginning to crash down around us, Tabor Research...

TotalView Adds Support For HP Cluster
From insideHPC

TotalView Adds Support For HP Cluster

TotalView Tech has announced that its flagship TotalView debugger now supports the HP Cluster Platform Workgroup System.

Scrapwalls
From The Eponymous Pickle

Scrapwalls

Now several times I have had the task of creating a collage of images quickly and easily. Typically I would have perhaps a hundred design images or so in a file...

Is the
From Putting People First

Is the

“Are experiences relevant in a recession?” asks Jonathan Picoult. The stock of Starbucks Coffee, long revered as a prime example of a consumer-focused, experience...

Nokia and Securitas to cooperate in bringing security services into mobile devices
From Putting People First

Nokia and Securitas to cooperate in bringing security services into mobile devices

Press release Nokia and Securitas today announced a new cooperation regarding mobile services for personal security and every day safety. Mobile devices already...

Creating social solutions for MS patients
From Putting People First

Creating social solutions for MS patients

The people from Live|Work, a UK service design company, have inspired me from the time I met them at the meanwhile defunct Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, now...

McCloud Presentation at TED
From The Eponymous Pickle

McCloud Presentation at TED

Presentation Zen has a good overview of and links to Scott McCloud's presentation at TED: Presenting comics in a new (media) world. I read McCloud's book: Understanding...

Bandwidth at the Inauguration?
From CSDiary

Bandwidth at the Inauguration?

I’m in Falls Church, Virginia, for a short visit with my father and stepmother. This is a historic time to be in the Washington DC area, of course. Some very, very...

Tesla GPU seminar coming
From insideHPC

Tesla GPU seminar coming

Last week while I was traveling Cluster Monkey posted an announcement about a Tesla seminar this week, hosted by NVIDIA and Microway. The key presenter is Sumit...

Visualizing Earthquakes
From The Eponymous Pickle

Visualizing Earthquakes

I just rediscovered the Wolfram blog. Had not used Mathematica now for several years. I know that their visualization capabilities are excellent, especially combined...

Turn your weaknesses into strengths
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Turn your weaknesses into strengths

General Motors, Ford and Chrysler

University of Canterbury First to Teach Supercomputing in
From insideHPC

University of Canterbury First to Teach Supercomputing in

The University of Canterbury will become the first institution in Australasia to teach high performance computing.

India: The Impact of Mobile Phones
From Putting People First

India: The Impact of Mobile Phones

Vodafone publishes a very good, but highly under-communicated, Public Policy series. The aim of the series is “to provide a platform for leading experts to write...

When everyone zigs, Cory Doctorow zags
From Putting People First

When everyone zigs, Cory Doctorow zags

Just when everyone is writing on how mobile phones are bringing about huge changes in emerging markets, Cory Doctorow publishes a very nice and thought provoking...

Taken Out of Context: American teen sociality in networked publics
From Putting People First

Taken Out of Context: American teen sociality in networked publics

danah boyd is a a PhD candidate at the School of Information (iSchool) at the University of California (Berkeley) and a Fellow at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center...

New phone features
From Putting People First

New phone features

The complexity of modern mobile phones is leaving users frustrated and angry, research by Mformation (and reported by BBC) suggests. Some 61% of those interviewed...

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Buyology Thinking
From The Eponymous Pickle

Buyology Thinking

Fairly extensive look in ResearchTalk at the claims behind Buyology: Buyology: Sound Science or Wishful Thinking?. the final claim comes down to the well exercised...

What Would Google Do?
From The Eponymous Pickle

What Would Google Do?

Steve Baker, author of The Numerati, which I reviewed takes a look at an upcoming book by Jeff Jarvis called What Would Google Do?
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