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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
Application Store Analysis
An interesting view of the IPhone application store. Overall sales are increasing, but few apps are used long after purchase. " ... users who download free applications...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Twitter's Fiscal Fate?
Short piece on the state of Twitter. Still attracting lots of people. Collecting eyeballs. It reflects the two minds I have about it. It is a collection of...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Students using podcasting and skipping class
According to a recent study, students do better if they skip class and listen to the podcasts. The article has been discussed in the New Scientist and the New York...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Are solo authors less cited?
Sylvie Noël submits to us the following fallacy—which appears in the editorial of a peer-reviewed journal. The editor-in-chief makes the following observation:...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Ethnography and the In-Home Interview.
Fascinating piece on the the use of in-home interviews by Tesco's Fresh&Easy. " ... did Tesco grasp the method they were using? There is a distressing habit these...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Gut Feelings: Intelligence of the Unconscious
Gerd Gigerenzer is the director of the Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition at the Max Planck Institute. I have been reading his 2007 book: Gut Feelings:...
From insideHPC
The word of the day is
I freaking love this story, from the UK’s Webuser site. A supercomputer used to predict which words may soon fall out of common use in the English language. The...
From insideHPC
Asian
The Top500 list started it all, and then came the Russian Top50. Now there is an Asian Top500. Why the new list? ince 1993, www.TOP500.org has taken the initiative...
From insideHPC
One million for the
CPU hours, that is. From a release posted at HPCwire earlier this week: The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) in collaboration with the Institute...
From insideHPC
Fusion-IO: a little bit of Woz and a lot of
CNet News ran a feature yesterday about Fusion-IO, about whom we have previously written. Steve Wozniak joined Fusion-IO as its chief scientist recently, at least...
From insideHPC
ISC
Found at HPCwire this am, news that the 2009 program for ISC (in Hamburg this time, a lovely city) is set: In addition to world-renowned keynote speakers, ISC’09...
From insideHPC
Dan Reed on why he joined
The day before yesterday the always interesting Dan Reed spent a few minutes writing on his blog about what motivated his most recent career choice What I have...
From insideHPC
Chippewa Falls Seymour Cray
The Chippewa Falls Museum of Industry and Technology has opened an exhibit entitled: “Seymour Cray Supercomputers.”
From Wild WebMink
Link roundup to February 26
2009 Elections at OpenSolaris.org Take a good look at the dates, then consider if you should be a candidate. And please read the new, simplified Constitution and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Morphological Neuromarketing
In today's New York Times, an interesting case study on a Neuromarketing method used by US snack goods manufacturer Frito-Lay, which used the morphology (structure...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Why It is Time To Get Political
In the last year, CSTA has put s great deal of effort into developing a strong advocacy arm for CSTA and there are times when I wonder if this is a good use of....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dealing with Reliability
Can you rely on services like Gmail? Or the Web? Sobering thoughts.
From insideHPC
Report from the UPCRC Illinois
Clay Breshears was at the 12 Feb UPCRC Illinois Summit meeting earlier this month, and writes about it on Intel’s blogs This was a progress report of various research...
From insideHPC
TotalView
My post about Microsoft’s DreamSpark program yesterday didn’t gather any response from from the giant of Redmond, but it did get TotalView’s attention. They sent...
From insideHPC