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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 insideHPC
NVIDIA reveals plan to develop own x86
From a recent blog post by Michael Feldman at HPCwire “I think some time down the road it makes sense to take the same level of integration that we’ve done with...
From insideHPC
Science in the FY09
Peter Harsha over at the CRA’s Policy Blog has a detailed summary on science funding in the budget omnibus including funding for the agencies that traditionally...
From insideHPC
New Japanese plasma simulator in
Found at Cheer HPC, news that alongside the new Earth Simulator 2, Japan has put another super into operation. This one is a 77 TFLOPS Hitachi SR16000 system for...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robots Start an Evolution
Interesting piece, though it is not saying that the physical aspects of the robots are evolving, only the algorithms that drive them. When a robot starts to be...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dynamics of Being Sorry
From Knowledge@Wharton, a good essay on the power of being sorry for unforseen circumstances. Early on in my enterprise career I was told that I used 'sorry about...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Eponymous Numbers
Eponymous means, of course, something that is named after something else, usually a proper noun or person's name. I have explained this a number of times. Not...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Fixing Computer Science Teacher Certification
More than likely you wouldn't be reading this blog if you didn't feel passionately that computer science is an essential discipline in our high schools. Certainly...
From Putting People First
Nokia
Expanding Horizons is a quarterly publication aimed at ICT decision-makers in the private and public sectors. It explores the socio-economic benefits that mobile...
From Wild WebMink
Link Roundup on March 6
Mozilla and CyberMentors "The Internet is full of bullies, not predators" - This looks like a great way to do something practical to protect young people on the...
From Putting People First
The user experience of money: how interaction design can help
Alexa Andrzejewski of Adaptive Path reflects on the user experience of money: For anyone designing for consumer finance
From Apophenia
I want to evolve to not hear the cell phone
Whenever I'm in a public space where folks are blabbing away on their phones, I want to scream. Trains, cafes, busses... they all drive me batty. I'm dreading the...
From Putting People First
Microsoft Research's 'Technology for Emerging Markets' group
The Technology for Emerging Markets group at Microsoft Research India seeks to address the needs and aspirations of people in emerging-market countries, including...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wolfram Announces Intelligence Effort
I was a long time user of Wolfram's Mathematica in the enterprise. I also read parts of his epic book: A New Kind of Science. Which is now online in its entirety...
From insideHPC
Cray and virtualization provider ScaleMP hook
From Cray’s website this morning, news that Cray is partnering with ScaleMP to use virtualization technology to bring shared memory to the company’s CX1 deskside...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What if?
Ken Karakotsios has a new post in his simulation blog called What if?. There he outlines the nature of models and simulation in a non-technical way. Over the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Exposes a TeraByte
Article on Amazon's public data sets, worth taking a look:" ... Amazon.com changed the retail world. In the process the company built up so much surplus computing...
From insideHPC
Article explores answers for challenges faced by virtualization in
Twitter user LeahRosin tweeted a link to this article yesterday at SearchEnterpriseLinux.com, “Virtualization for high-performance computing on Linux: Critiques...
From Springenwerk Blog
github iPhone client
Wow, that was quick! It took only 6 days (or 4 work days) for my iPhone app to be reviewed and approved by Apple. It's my 3rd iPhone app, but my first own, not-for...
From insideHPC
Cilk++ 1.0 multicore C++ development environment
This week parallel programming platform developer Cilk Arts announced the release of 1.0 of their flagship product, Cilk++ for Windows and Linux The Cilk++ programming...
From insideHPC