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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 Putting People First
Book reviews of The Caryatids by Bruce Sterling
Bruce Sterling’s new science fiction novel The Caryatids is out and is collecting its first reviews. Here are the ones I found so far: Cory Doctorow - Boing Boing...
From Putting People First
Media literacy and social action in a post-Pokemon world
Cultural anthropologist Mimi Ito has posted a rough transcript of her (quite long) keynote address at the 51st NFAIS Annual Conference. “If I were to pick one thing...
From Putting People First
Microsoft
A new video from Microsoft shows in an elegant, if utopian way, what it might look like if all of those gadgets came together several years hence. Ina Fried of...
From Putting People First
Nissan interaction design team suffers to make future cars simple and painless
With the help of a proprietary “ageing suit” that mimics the mobility and faculties of an elderly driver, interaction designers at Nissan Design Center were able...
From Putting People First
Web 2.0: a magic Ponzi scheme from a demon haunted world
Bruce Sterling keynoted last week on “The Short but Glorious Life of Web 2.0 and What Comes Afterward” at Webstock in Wellington. No video is (yet) available, but...
From Putting People First
Primates on Facebook
The Economist calls in primatologists to better understand the limits of Facebook: “Perhaps additional friends are not free. Primatologists call at least some of...
From Putting People First
Two upcoming European conferences
IRealize Turin, Italy 9-10 June 2009 It’s still early days for this conference that presents itself as “two days aimed at identifying unsolved problems, suggesting...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Advocacy Action in Ohio
Ohio is on the move, or at least we would like to think so. During the eTech State Technology Conference in February we were able to present four sessions on...
From Wild WebMink
Link round-up for 26th & 27th February
Music industry's Irish ISP shakedown letter leaked This is the way things work these days. The Irish music industry association IRMA is afraid to sue its customers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Clever Digital Marketing
HardKnoxLife demonstrates a bit of digital marketing from GE that combines a single printed page, the camera on your PC and some 3D modeling to show you how clever...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Package Unseen
A new blog that looks to be interesting:The Package UnseenObservations about package design, culture, and context ... ' About the Author, Richard Shear.-
From The Eponymous Pickle
Agent-Based Complexity Models
For a request I dug out this article on some work I was involved in a number of years ago, then remembered that I had never posted it here. It is about solving...
From insideHPC
UAH Partnering with
The University of Alabama Huntsville has announced a new partnership with Oak Ridge National Lab.
From insideHPC
OSC boosts bioscience with super
OSC announced yesterday that they are expanding their IBM Cluster 1350 to add more capacity to the center’s support for state bioscience efforts The Ohio Supercomputer...
From insideHPC
Express Parallelism, Don
Provocative title from an article at DevX.com For example, it’s very tempting to use the operating system’s native threading library directly on a multicore platform...
From insideHPC
Comparing Cilk++ and
Multicoreinfo.com points us to an article at Cilk Arts comparing some of the differences between their parallel environment, Cilk++, and OpenMP If your code looks...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Think Like a Startup
I have heard this suggestion many times in the large enterprise. Usually more like: 'What would you invest in if this was your own money?'. Though that was directed...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Alice Sells Toilet Paper
Was just pointed to a private beta called Alice. The site appears to want to sell common CPG products at some discount via subscription with free delivery. Using...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Finding Your Customers
Good basic outline about how to find your customers while social networking.
From Wild WebMink