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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 Apophenia
a random act of kindness
Due to poor planning, G and I were on different flights back to Boston from SXSW. I was already booked on the early flight and had already been assigned my upgrade...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart Enhances Private Label
From the AP, Wal-Mart introduces a number of new private label brands, refreshes others. In general, private label brands are much more profitable to retailers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Virtual World Data Environments
Something I had explored since well before virtual worlds were common. The idea was that you could explore data by flying through a 3D space. There were several...
From insideHPC
Warning for HPC companies: don
Mike Bernhardt has posted an insightful article on his communication company
From Putting People First
Nokia
Julian Bleecker of Nokia calls it a “short essay”, but “Design Fiction: A Short Essay on Design, Science, Fact and Fiction” is really a 97 page book. “Extending...
From Putting People First
Multi-touch looks set to kill the mouse
Darren Waters, technology editor at the BBC, reports from Austin, Texas on the future of touch: “The success of the iPhone has given rise to a new grammar of touch...
From Putting People First
Innovation trickles in a new direction
Business Week reports on how some companies like General Electric, Nokia, and others are reversing the traditional process where products are created in rich nations...
From Putting People First
Discussing the principles for a digital social enterprise
Over the last few months, Franco Papeschi and Tory Dunn of the Vodafone User Experience team have been doing work on a set of principles and guidelines to support...
From insideHPC
Cloudera launched to offer commercialized
You might recall that Hadoop is the open source application built from the few papers Google engineers published on their MapReduce infrastructure for dealing with...
From insideHPC
Computer science enrollment up for first time in six
The results of a recent study by the CRA are out, and the news is good for computer science The number of undergraduate students majoring in computer science significantly...
From insideHPC
Computing research that changed the world
From the CCC’s blog Ed Lazowska and Peter Lee on November 4 proposed a brainstorming exercise to identify about a dozen game-changing advances in computing research...
From CSDiary
CS Enrollments Are Up, According to Latest CRA Taulbee Report
The latest edition of the CRA Taulbee Report has just been released, and it confirms what we have been seeing in our CS application trends here at CMU and other...
From Putting People First
Collaborative Services: social innovation and design for sustainability
“What is a sustainable lifestyle? What will our daily lives become if we agree to change some of our routines? How do we reduce our environmental impact without...
From Putting People First
The location of anything is becoming everything
We live in the Global Location Age.
From Putting People First
Service design at Kraft
Reena Jana of Business Week reports from SXSW on the activities of Moshe Tamssot, Kraft
From Putting People First
A participatory website supporting families with disabled children
The Turin-based non-profit organisation Area, which supports families with disabled children, just launched its new website, developed with the intensive support...
From Springenwerk Blog
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From insideHPC
TACC Names Stanzione Deputy
The Texas Advanced Computing Center [TACC] has announced that they have named Dan Stanzione, Jr as Deputy Director of the center.
From insideHPC