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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
Class action lawsuit filed against Rackable for alleged violiations of securities
Attorneys are getting geared up to press a class action against Rackable. There are several attorney announcements out there trying to gather members of the class...
From Springenwerk Blog
"item" is a Reserved Word in Internet Explorer 6 and 7
Arg! I know every web developer hates the IE. But sometimes the reasons why we hate it so much become so painfully obvious again. Like today. I've been workingCompanion...
From insideHPC
IDC forecasts declining HPC systems
This sounds like a no-brainer, but keep in mind that predictions right now are all over the map and depend upon how you slice the market. The Platform/Waters survey...
From insideHPC
Focusing on core
I’ve been really busy lately, and Joe Landman has a post on recent RIFs in the HPC ecosystem that nicely lays out what’s going on lately, only some of which has...
From insideHPC
Searching for the -gpu
Jeff Layton over at Cluster Monkey is on the quest for the -gpu option — a quick way to take an existing code and optimize it for GPUs without a rewrite. He isn’t...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Retail Drama
Yesterday I walked Costco with a cart. I take more than a casual interest in these kinds of excursions. I look for assortment, costs, technologies and shelf design...
From Putting People First
What technology has taught us at dizzying speed
Alice Rawsthorn, the design critic of the International Herald Tribune, reflects on what skills have, because of technology, become less useful than they would...
From Putting People First
Horizon Report 2009
The annual Horizon Report describes the continuing work of the New Media Consortium (NMC)
From Putting People First
People-centric sensing in the city of the near future
Fabien Girardin, whose work I start to know (and appreciate) more and more, just uploaded the presentation of his research work in the domain of people-centric...
From CSDiary
Carlos Guestrin Wins IJCAI
Carlos Guestrin, a faculty member in Machine Learning, Computer Science, and Civil and Environmental Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, is the recipient...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of Books
The future of books and knowledge, one of my favorite topics. From the NYRB: Google and the Future of Books. See also my recent comments on book scanning progress...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Brand Manager Blogs
Dave Knox, P&G Brand Manager, has an interesting personal blog.
From Putting People First
Kitchen Budapest visit
I just posted an article on Core77 about my visit yesterday to Kitchen Budapest. Check it out. KiBu will be presenting three projects at the upcoming Lift09 conference...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Announces New BI
An overview presentation of changes in Microsoft's Business Intelligence roadmap.
From Putting People First
Silvia Zimmermann from Switzerland is new UPA President
The German and Swiss websites of the Usability Professionals’ Association (UPA) report that Silvia Zimmermann from Switzerland is the new president of the UPA. Although...
From Putting People First
Revolution, Facebook-style
A long feature article in the New York Times Magazine explores whether social networking can turn disaffected young Egyptians into a force for democratic change...
From Putting People First
The Publius Project
The Publius Project is an initiative of Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, with the cryptic byline: “a collection of essays and conversations...
From Putting People First
?oyfriend
Worldchanging published an original piece of science fiction by author Madeline Ashby. The story imagines a series of futuristic technologies (including smart tags...
From Putting People First
Mission 2.0: advice for arts & cultural organisations from the social web
Rohan Gunatillake of NESTA Connect highlights three principal drivers as being behind the new wave of online activity: the low barriers to participation, the thirst...
From Putting People First