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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 The Eponymous Pickle
Data Visualization Reinventing Online Storytelling
Nice AdAge piece about the topic. I think that this can be taken further than just making data accessible, but also making it more valuable by making it interactive...
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Hello everyone. We’ve been busy as beavers here at insideHPC HQ, and we’ve got a lot of things coming for you in the next few months. A facelift, some new content...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google and WPP Fund Neuromarketing Work
The post includes other links and brings up ethical concerns. They have been working on eyetracking for years. Have seen impressive presentations on that work...
From insideHPC
Fault tolerance workshop getting underway
Dan Katz at Louisiana State University sent me a note this morning letting us know that the TeraGrid’s 2009 Fault Tolerance Workshop, “Fault Tolerance for Extreme...
From insideHPC
Sun sells new systems in Australia, billed as southern hemisphere
insideHPC’s man down under sent us a note today letting us know that winner in the competition for new supers at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology and the Australian...
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Platform Computing Announces New Cluster Management
Platform Computing has announced the latest addition to its cluster management tool chain.
From insideHPC
University of Manitoba Announces HPC
The University of Manitoba has announced that they will build a new high performance computing facility.
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Rackable ready to run hot, innovates on power
Rackable has announced a new scale out computing solution that runs at temps up to 104 degrees F, and moves to per-cabinet (instead of per-server or per-blade)...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Outline of Predictably Irrational
An outline of Dan Ariely's book: Predictably Irrational, which I previously reviewed. Via the Noisy Channel. Nicely done.
From insideHPC
SC09 announces suite of focus
This week SC09 announced (warning, PDF) the focus areas for its technical program. This year the conference is placing special emphasis on biocomputing, sustainability...
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Cray launches new XT5m midrange
At a workshop today co-hosted by Cray and the High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS) in Stuttgart, Cray announced a new midrange line of supercomputers...
From CSDiary
What Makes a Top-10 CS Department?
I’ve just returned from a visit to KAIST, the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, in Daejeon, South Korea. As far as “big government bets” go, KAIST...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Many Things We Can Do
While riding across the California desert on my way to California CUE (Computer Using Educators), reading several RSS feed captures, and trying to decide upon a...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Educating NITRD
As far as obscure government acronyms go, NITRD is a pretty good one. It stands for the National Information Technology Research and Development program. This...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Brand IP Interview
Interview with Keith Harrison, Supply Chain Strategist at P&G, A lesson in brand Intellectual Property. How does a supply chain strategist think about brand intellectual...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Shopportunity Book
Read Kate Newlin's 2006 book: Shopportunity: How to be a Retail Revolutionary. She is a former president of Faith Popcorn's company: Brainreserve. She also worked...
From insideHPC
Sun stock up in Europe on news that IBM in talks to buy
Joe at Scalability.org points us to a story in the NYT with news that IBM is talking with Sun about buying their company. Sun Microsystems soared in European trading...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Linkedin Advice
A blog of practical Linkedin advice, in general of the more advanced kind.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Costs of Print vs Online
Economic comparison: Printing The NYT Costs Twice As Much As Sending Every Subscriber A Free Kindle. Printing will not go away, but will it exist only in much smaller...
From CSDiary