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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 CSDiary
Time to Re-engage with DARPA
The end of the Tether era at DARPA has generated a lot of speculation about Tether’s successor — though nothing yet that seems all that credible. But what about...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
USACM Applauds Increased Investment in Research
Today President Barack Obama signed into law the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. This legislation provides billions in funding intended to spur economic...
From insideHPC
Universities challenged to power down for the
The Climate Savers Computing Initiative is organizing a challenge to encourage universities to “make a dent in pollution by powering down campus computers.” One...
From insideHPC
Bull reports 2008 results, posts
European HPC maker Bull reported its fiscal 2008 results on Friday, and probably popped a cork or two in the process. Revenues up, EBIT up, cash on hand up, and...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
How the CSTA Elections Work
It is election time for the CSTA Board of Directors. This year, the K-8 representative, two 9-12 representatives, the school district representative, the college...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Fate of Expertise after Wikipedia
Thoughtful article in Episteme on Wikipedia. Very good points about the differences of what mass collaboration produces vs that comes from typical editorial collaboration...
From Putting People First
Jeffrey Sachs on the transformational power of mobile devices in Africa
Jeffrey Sachs, the director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University and special adviser to the United Nations Secretary-General on the Millennium Development...
From Wild WebMink
Link roundup from the weekend 14-15 February
What a CEO SHOULD Be Fascinating insight into JAL's CEO reveals an attitude all too lacking in western leadership - what in wartime is called "leading from the10...
From Putting People First
Yochai Benkler on
Yochai Benkler, who is the Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard and faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society,...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Grove Virtual Learning Center
David Sibbet writes that Grove has established a virtual learning center in Second Life. The site includes descriptions and pictures. I can remember visitingDavid's...
From insideHPC
Rackable announces Q4, posts loss for Q and
Rackable announced results for Q4 and fiscal 2008 on Friday, and it wasn’t good GAAP net loss per share from continuing operations was ($0.61) for the fourth quarter...
From insideHPC
Terabit per second Ethernet may be
From Ars Technica Researchers from Australia, Denmark, and China have combined efforts to show the feasibility of terabit-per-second Ethernet over fiber-optic cables...
From insideHPC
ClearSpeed CEO resigns, company on hard
From a story at ElectronicsWeekly.com comes news that Tom Beese, the now former CEO of accelerator company ClearSpeed, has hit the bricks. Two weeks ago the company...
From insideHPC
Penguin Releases Scyld Clusterware
From Penguin last week Penguin Computing today announced the immediate availability of the latest version of its high performance computing (HPC) cluster management...
From insideHPC
US stimulus final makes investments in science,
From a press release issued by CRA Members of the computing research community today praised Congress for passing an economic stimulus package that includes substantial...
From The Eponymous Pickle
A Smell Sensory Future
Roger Dooley gives a good overview of the Whiff!: The Revolution of Scent Communications in the Information Age book by Russell Brumfield and James Goldney. I...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
What is a 'Better Internet'?
Ellen Zegura is Professor and Chair of Computer Science at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She writes to us today in her role as chair of the NetSE Council...
From Putting People First
Forthcoming Rosenfeld Media books
Rosenfeld Media, which is run by Lou Rosenfeld, publishes short, practical, and useful books and webinars on user experience design. Here are their forthcoming...
From CERIAS Blog
Do we need a new Internet?
Short answer: " Almost certainly, no." Longer answer: The blogosphere is abuzz with comments on John Markoff's Saturday NT Times piece, Do We Need a New Internet...
From CSDiary