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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: Innovating for and by users
Innovating for and by users Edited by Jo Pierson, Enid Mante-Meijer, Eug
From Putting People First
Does UX still matter in tough economic times
“Does UX still matter in tough economic times,” asks Temple University librarian Steven Bell on the blog “Designing Better Libraries”. “Promoting the user experience...
From insideHPC
University of Louisville Buys IBM
HPCWire: The University of Louisville has announced the delivery of a new IBM supercomputer.
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
NIST Presents Research Status on Voting Systems
In response to a request from the Election Assistance Commission (EAC), the National Institute of Standards and Technology conducted research on six specific areas...
From insideHPC
NMCAC and Dreamworks/Cerelink
The New Mexico Computing Applications Center has announced a collaboration with media firms DreamWorks Animation SKG and Cerelink DMG to explore the development...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Being Secure
Good straightforward piece on helping secure your online presence. Which has been on my mind lately.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Manufacturers and Word of Mouth
From Consumer Goods Technology: Manufacturers Underestimate Power of Word-of-Mouth. They overview a paper from Colloquy, which publishes research about market...
From The Eponymous Pickle
DecisionPower
Ken Karakotsios of DecisionPower, a long time correspondent of mine is in the midst of putting together a blog about simulation topics. I will report on thatAdplanit...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Procter Ends Promotional Display Tagging
P&G has tested the use of RFID tags to confirm that promotional displays are being deployed. This article discusses their current ending of a test with Wal-Mart...
From insideHPC
Red Hat and Windows to support each others
Timothy Prickett Morgan reports from The Register this week that Red Hat and Microsoft have been coerced by customers into playing nice with each other Operating...
From insideHPC
Coding in the cloud, Mozilla
Michael Feldman has been reliving his past coding glory (not everyone knows he used to do compiler work for a living), as reflected in a blog post yesterday While...
From insideHPC
TPC video overview of the new energy efficiency
The Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) is working on several new benchmarks this year, one of which is an energy efficiency benchmark. Here’s a link...
From insideHPC
SiCortex hardware supports Virtual
A quick search of past posts verifies that, yes, this is the first pairie-related post here in nearly three thousand news posts. Sure, its a niche record, but I’m...
From insideHPC
SDSC gets grant for cloud computing research on Google
Found at HPCwire, news that researchers at SDSC have gotten a two year grant of $450,000 from the NSF The NSF award focuses on the Cluster Exploratory (CluE), a...
From Wild WebMink
Link Roundup for February 18
Why the UK Directory Enquiries Deregulation Failed "In particular, with limits on information and rationality, it may sometimes be better to limit choice but increase...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Solving New and Difficult Theory Problems . . . Without Looping Into Oblivion
Sometimes you decide that you need a specific theoretical result. For example, you may need a closed form formula for a given quantity. Yet, you barely know how...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Show not Tell in Retail
Herb Sorensen of TNS posts another great article about the current cluttered environment in retail and how we need to think more about design that shows as opposed...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
An Effective ELL Strategy for Computer Science Classes
I'm sitting in my office printing out cards to send to students to invite them to enroll in a computer course. I am using the AP Potential list from the College...
From The Eponymous Pickle