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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: Designing for the Digital Age
Designing for the Digital Age: How to Create Human-Centered Products and Services [amazon] by Kim Goodwin, Alan Cooper Wiley (March 2009) Paperback: 768 pages ISBN...
From Putting People First
Bad usability calendar
The (in)famous Bad Usability Calendar has featured 48 classic design mistakes in 13 different languages since 2005. Now it is available in its 2009 edition (with...
From Putting People First
Top kitchen toy? The cellphone
According to the New York Times’ Julia Moskin, the cellphone has transformed the kitchen lives of many Americans. “It has become the kitchen tool of choice for...
From insideHPC
IBM reports record
Interesting story from The Register on why Big Blue is even smugger than usual right now There’s a lot of bad economic news floating around, but there wasn’t much...
From insideHPC
Assystem UK using
I’m only running it for the headline — no, it’s not a typo. Original PR at HPCwire, blurb below Altair Engineering, Inc., a leading global provider of technology...
From insideHPC
HPC helps build crankshafts 80%
UK HPC integrator OCF (one of the companies I wrote about in this article about the UK HPC market) has delivered an HPC system that really gets at the heart of...
From insideHPC
AMD and Sun deliver small cluster to
Although neither Sun nor AMD are reporting this on their own primary (ie, US) sites, China Daily is reporting that oil exploration firm China National Petroleum...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Net Neutrality Connected to Broadband Stimulus
Funds for broadband deployment are part of the economic stimulus package currently under construction on Capitol Hill. Worth noting is that this funding has at...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IEEE Computing Now: Search Viz
IEEE Computing Now is in Beta. Here is a current article on visualization. Pak Chung Wong of Pacific Northwest Laboratory gives us an overview of their work under...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Crowd-Sourcing the World
This is quite ambitious, I see that Nokia is involved. How do we know this will be used for good rather than evil? Even a bit less than evil?"Crowd-Sourcing the...
From insideHPC
Staying linked in to
I asked a question in several different places over the holidays about where people go to stay current about HPC, both in terms of technology and professional development...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
CSTA is Looking Beyond the US
CSTA has as its main objective "to support and promote the teaching of computer science and other computing disciplines. CSTA provides opportunities for K-12 teachers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Peter+Trudy
Peter and Trudy Johnson-Lenz are consultants who worked with Procter & Gamble while we were working with the Institute for the Future in the 90s. They did an excellent...
From Springenwerk Blog
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no such file to load — sqlite3 on Rails 2.2 : RubyHead
From The Eponymous Pickle
Comparing Google Knol and Wikipedia
Not much competition so far. Also minimal editing in Knol has led to dropping quality. Can it survive? There is still not much critical mass or attempt at basic...
From CSDiary
Back from the Inauguration
Well, my attempts to live-blog from the Inauguration fizzled. The signal strength was usually very good but actually getting bits transmitted reliably from my iPhone...
From insideHPC
AMD to Cut 1,100 and Slash
AMD announced last Friday that they will soon cut 1,100 positions in an effort to reduce costs.
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Observations from New Zealand
My husband, Dr. Mark Guzdial, and I are at the ACSW 2009 conference in Wellington, New Zealand. Dr. Wayne Mapp, the Minister for Research, Science, and Technology...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kraft IPhone Application a Success
It appears that the Kraft IFood Application, which I have used and reviewed, is a success, see this AdAge article: " ... One of the coolest apps on the iPhone isn't...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog