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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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Server
We’re having troubles after the move to the new server. A couple times yesterday the website stopped responding, and since I was on airplanes the site typically...
From Putting People First
Mobile phones and the BOP in Washington, DC
The Washington Post reports on how homeless people in Washington DC use mobile phone, blogs and e-mail to stay on top of things. “Today, it’s not unusual for the...
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Award for user-friendly design of wireless multi-room music system
A few weeks ago the Sonos Multi-Room Music System, a wireless music system, which allows music-lovers to play all the music they want, was honoured with the international...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bloom Concierge Cart Technology
From SupermarketNews, this was a device I looked at a few years ago called the Concierge cart from Springboard Networks. This appears to be the first actual implementation...
From insideHPC
Mellanox gives to make the world a better
Not directly HPC-related, but we support the charitable efforts of those in our community. Found at HPCwire today, news that Mellanox is giving $160,000 to fourteen...
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Secretary Chu makes ready for $1.2B spending spree in
Secretary of Energy Stephen Chu has announced plans to spend $1.2B of the $1.6B aimed at the DOE Office of Science by
From insideHPC
Ideas for improving computer science
A post last week at the new (I think) ACM blog highlights how some of the ideas from a 2007 PCAST report on NITRD are being used by policy makers today to improve...
From insideHPC
Nagoya University Goes with
Fujitsu Ltd. has announced that they have won a bid to provide the Information Technology Center at Nagoya University with a new supercomputer system.
From insideHPC
More on IBM+Sun from
Joe Landman, who always brings a deep perspective to the business analysis of HPC goings on, commented yesterday on the latest news in the Sun/IBM possible merger...
From The Eponymous Pickle
P&G Site for the City
P&G has launched a recruitment site, both for the company and the City of Cincinnati. Good idea for those out of the way Midwestern cities that I have come to...
From insideHPC
ANSYS Exands HPC Capacity for Enhanced
ANSYS announced today that they have expanded their in-house HPC systems in order to optimize the product development process.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smart Phone to Become Universal Remote
In the NYT: The Universal Remote Dormant in Your Smartphone . In the 80s I recall seeing people having stacks of remotes on their couch arms. Then these wereone...
From Springenwerk Blog
Passenger and Ruby Enterprise Edition on Solaris 10
I recently had the pleasure of setting up REE and Passenger on Solaris 10. I set the server up using the ibm_db gem for the IBM DB/2 database. I'm not coveringMore...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Primates on Facebook
Somwhat dated from the Economist, just brought to our attention: " ... That Facebook, Twitter and other online social networks will increase the size of human...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Middle Way
Colleague Barb Didrichsen has a blog called the Middle Way. She is an excellent writer.
From insideHPC
Can
This just in from Cisco reader Jeff Squyres (hi Jeff!), news that the OpenFabrics Alliance will host the fifth-annual International Sonoma Workshop next week from...
From The Eponymous Pickle
J&J Marketing Unleashed
I was just reminded of J&J Global VP Gary Bembridge's Marketing Unleashed Blog, still very active and interesting. He also has a Twitter presence.
From insideHPC
IBM Scouring Sun Micro
Following our post last Wednesday on the rumor that IBM is holding talks to buy Sun Microsystems, the Wall Street Journal [print edition] has further confirmed...
From Putting People First