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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
Sony TV Includes a Scanner
Storefrontbacktalk posts about a new Sony TV's remote which can act as a touchless RFID scanner. Nice idea.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tide T-Shirts for Disaster Relief
Buy a T shirt in the Loads of Hope program and provide proceeds for disaster relief and advertise the idea. The idea is going viral and seems to be working. I...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Universal Access to Knowledge?
See In O'Reilly Radar, by Linda Stone, about the recent settlement between Google and publishers regarding the scanning of books. There now appears to be some...
From Wild WebMink
Wednesday links on March 11
Lantana: Caroline Herring Flawless, dark, American folk music delivered with cool precision. One of my picks of SXSW this year.New York: Tax break for open source...
From insideHPC
Data Center World Day 1 links
Data Center Knowledge’s Rich Miller just posted a links roundup from day one of AFCOM’s Data Center World conference, with pointers to coverage and press releases...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Growing a Computer Science Requirement
Japan has taken the bold step of recognizing a need for all high school graduates to have a formal computing course and has modified the high school graduation...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analytics Based Reasoning in Tough Economy
Register and Info here:Tomorrow at 10AM EDT: " ... IDC's Dan Vesset will present market research showing that increased analytic orientation leads to improved organizational...
From insideHPC
ScaleMP announces vSMP Foundation
ScaleMP announced a new version of vSMP today ScaleMP, a leading provider of virtualization solutions for high-end computing, is announcing version 2.0 of its flagship...
From Putting People First
Case study: gestural entertainment center for Canesta
Jennifer Bove, a former Interaction-Ivrea student, sent me a link to a case study on a gestural entertainment center that she and a team at Kicker Studio developed...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Best Buy Gets Results from Social Networks
Short piece on Best Buy and Social Networks: " ... the intent of the developers was to create a network that could help flatten the organization, promoting the...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Are your research papers telling original stories?
Life is multidimensional. Research papers should be multidimensional too! We should ask several interesting questions. We should give several nuanced answers. We...
From insideHPC
IBM
From The Register again, news of IBM’s new 8 Gb Fibre Channel solution, based on QLogic’s daughter card IBM is making the rounds this week talking up a new 8 Gb...
From insideHPC
Sun launches SSD solution for
Timothy Prickett Morgan writes at The Register on Sun’s launch of an enterprise SSD product for its midrange servers The company has already put SSDs in its “Amber...
From insideHPC
NVIDIA throws in cash, support to encourage new companies to build on its
Michael Feldman at HPCwire has written a feature on NVIDIA’s GPU Ventures Program, a new program designed to spur innovation in the marketplace of CPU-enabled products...
From insideHPC
Pervasive launches new data-intensive computing
Pervasive just launched the first new product based on its DataRush data processing engine, about which I’ve written for HPCwire. The full release is posted at...
From insideHPC
HPC adoption conference
Found at HPCwire, news that research think tank RTI International is sponsoring a conference that addresses the business and innovation that need to be addressed...
From insideHPC
NCSA funded to build community of science education
This is a cool idea, and I’m glad that someone is being funded to do this. Found at NCSA’s web site The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)...
From insideHPC
New HPC-related
Found at ClusterMonkey: If you are interested in HPC Podcasts head on over to Research Computing and Engineering (RCE-Cast). Research Computing and Engineering...
From CSDiary