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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
Fairshare Tracks Quotes
I have been running a beta called Fairshare for a month. I submitted the name of this blog and about a month later started getting reports about how the content...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Canadian government is cutting science funding
This article summarizes the results of the current funding cuts in research. It almost feels like Bush moved up North. Dozens of millions are being cut. My previous...
From The Eponymous Pickle
An Unfunny Corporate Life
Colleague Sammy Haroon comments on a recent Economist article about how corporate life and culture may adapt in 2009. And further, can we expect an engaged workforce...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
How to fund research properly
Research is an industry. Unlike other industries, it is often almost entirely bound to government funding. Because research takes a long time to bear fruit, people...
From Putting People First
Why enterprise software is so shockingly bad
Programmer Michael Nygard thinks that the quality about some software that inspires love in their users, is totally devoid in enterprise software. “The best you...
From Putting People First
Ethnographic research: a key to strategy
Ken Anderson, a senior researcher and anthropologist at Intel, wrote a short article for the Harvard Business Review on the importance of corporate ethnography:...
From insideHPC
Staying connected to SC, year
insideHPC’s buddy Rich Brueckner from Sun’s HPC Watercooler is heading up the use of what the kids are calling “social media” tools for SC09 this year, and he’s...
From Putting People First
Open source and mobile banking
After coming home from the Mobile World Congress, Mark Pickens, a microfinance analyst with CGAP
From Putting People First
The three layers of handhelds user experience
Christian Lindholm, a partner and director at Fjord, argues that there are three layers in handhelds user experience: “The highest level I call Bling (this is because...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
If you could only write one more research paper
Many years ago, I read the following piece of wisdom: If you had only one year left to live, what would you do differently? What are you waiting for to make these...
From CSDiary
Art and Code
I was planning to wait another week before blogging about this, but it looks like things are starting to fill up, so… On March 7-9, Carnegie Mellon will be hosting...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Where Are All the High School Computer Science Students?
I recently had a discussion with a professor from Virginia Tech on why can't we recruit more students for Computer Science majors at the university level, why can't...
From insideHPC
The Inquirer Interviews Khronos
The Inquirer has posted a quick interview with the Khronos Group president, Neil Trevett.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Engineering Education
Gary Wnek points out that David E Goldberg has posted an excellent detailed slide show: What Engineers Don't Learn and Why They Don't Learn it. Part of the Ifoundry...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Augmenting Reality : Cellphones and Models
The NYTimes has an article: The Cellphone, Navigating Our Lives talks about the concept of augmenting reality. Specifically about new cellphone interfaces that...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Private Label Winning
In AdAge: Private Label Winning Battle of BrandsMarketers Face Moment of Truth As Retailers' Lines Soar to Historic Sales High ... Package-goods brands face their...
From Wild WebMink
"Because our copyrights are worth more than your human rights"
Monday is the last day of the internet blackout campaign organised and in support of it I have blacked out my avatars on Twitter and Facebook as well as on this...
From insideHPC
CTR
Computer Technology Review published its list of the top 5 trends it expects in HPC throughout 2009. Here is the (abbreviated) list HPC is becoming more mainstream...
From CSDiary
Thinking About Computational Thinking
What is “computational thinking”? I think I first heard Jeannette Wing use the term back around the time that the Internet bubble burst, and of course we’ve become...
From insideHPC