From Schneier on Security
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration
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B. Schneier| February 29, 2024
SGI has received news from the NASDAQ that trading of their stock is set to be suspended tomorrow. The company has requested hearing on the issue
The Nasdaq Stock...John West From insideHPC | March 10, 2009 at 07:48 PM
The Independent today introduced SustainIT, the first in a series of three monthly supplements on ICT and globalisation. Some of the articles in the supplement...Experientia From Putting People First | March 10, 2009 at 07:47 PM
H+L Architecture has been named the design firm for the new National Center for Atmospheric Research [NCAR] facility in Wyoming.John Leidel From insideHPC | March 10, 2009 at 07:20 PM
The ACM SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award has been given to CMU Computer Science Professor Manuela Veloso. The award is given at the International Conference...Peter Lee From CSDiary | March 10, 2009 at 03:08 PM
A clever 3D patient record interface by IBM Research Zurich. Obvious in the sense that it uses a 3D manipulable image for something that is complex and 3D: the...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | March 10, 2009 at 02:31 PM
MIT's Liskov, First U.S. Woman Ph.D. in Computer Science, Pioneered the Standard for Modern Programming Language and Software Reliability
ACM, the Association... From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM | March 10, 2009 at 01:39 PM
Tactical Tech is an international NGO helping human rights advocates use information, communications and digital technologies to maximise the impact of their advocacy...Experientia From Putting People First | March 10, 2009 at 01:33 PM
A recent experiment by Mars using a number of Web 2.0 services on their site is nicely summarized by Paul Gillin: Skittles' Bold Social Media Experiment. The idea...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | March 10, 2009 at 12:55 PM
Jukka Jouhki (blog), an anthropologist and post-doc researcher at the Department of History and Ethnology at the University of JyvExperientia From Putting People First | March 10, 2009 at 11:40 AM
danah boyd, a Fellow at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, just joined Microsoft Research New England
On 29 February, she gave her first...Experientia From Putting People First | March 10, 2009 at 10:56 AM
After taking a break to finish my dissertation, I'm heading back to SXSW and I. Cannot. Wait. SXSW is one of my favorite-ist conferences evah. It's filled with...zephoria From Apophenia | March 10, 2009 at 09:36 AM
In a conversation with the design company Brand-Image I was introduced to their design concept: the paper water bottle. An example at the right. Some true alternative...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | March 10, 2009 at 04:52 AM
The Claytronics Project has hit Slashdot (again) today. See the post by clicking here. Jason Campbell (Intel Research Pittsburgh) is quoted in the article, and...Peter Lee From CSDiary | March 9, 2009 at 06:01 PM
From the BBC, a new trend?New guidelines on behavioural ads UK ISPs stand to make a lot of money from targeted advertising. The online advertising industry has...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | March 9, 2009 at 03:42 PM
CONTENTS
[1] Newsletter Highlights
[2] USACM Outlines Technical Principles for Open Government
[3] USACM Hails Boosts in Research Funding
[4] NIST Presents New... From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM | March 9, 2009 at 02:04 PM
March 10
Hearing
The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on patent reform, with a focus on recent court decisions and possible legislation.
10 a.m.,... From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM | March 9, 2009 at 01:35 PM
Well, maybe not your HPC datacenter, but they are definitely lining up to run big enterprise datacenters, and $19B business in 2008. From an article at The Register...John West From insideHPC | March 9, 2009 at 01:10 PM
BNP Paribas Corporate and Investment Banking announced last week that they have deployed a new CPU-based computer
A significant portion of the calculations, about...John West From insideHPC | March 9, 2009 at 09:36 AM