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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
NVIDIA Releases Q4
NVIDIA has released its financial results for the fourth quarter of FY2009.
From Putting People First
The Internet of Things and mobile devices
Ajit Jaokar, founder of futuretext, just wrote a somewhat technical article on his blog where he discusses the basic ideas and significance of the Internet of Things...
From Putting People First
Book: The Language of Things
The Language of Things: Understanding the World of Desirable Objects by Deyan Sudjic Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co. (June 1, 2009) Hardcover: 224 pages Description...
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Becoming a customer experience-driven business
Peter Merholz, founding partner and president of Adaptive Path, now writes the “Experience Matters” column for the revamped HarvardBusiness.org where he tries “to...
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Designing people-centred policy: how can user centred design help public services?
Nick Marsh of Engine Service Design contemplates how user-centred design can help public services. How do we enable patients with chronic conditions to take care...
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Rails versus Django · SuperJared.com I attempted to gather my thoughts into some elaborate explanation, delving into the subtleties and intricacies surrounding...
From insideHPC
Details on Intel
Pointer from Multicoreinfo.com to an article at Ars Technica providing a peek at some of the details of Intel’s forthcoming 8-core chip At an ISSCC session Monday...
From insideHPC
SGI strikes
SGI doesn’t coordinate with me, of course, but I can’t help but consider the timing of their most recent press release in the context of the RNA Networks announcement...
From insideHPC
DARPA
The CRA Policy Blog posts news that Anthony Tether, head of DARPA during the second President Bush’s administration, is resigning on the 20th of this month. He...
From insideHPC
HPCwire on SGI
Have you found yourself asking, “What the heck is non-GAAP and why does SGI report it?” Ask no more, friends. Instead, click on over to HPCwire and read the article...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Review: The Public Domain
Just finished on a long flight: James Boyle's: The Public Domain, Enclosing the Commons of the Mind. Available for buying, reading or downloading online free....
From insideHPC
NASA Ames Director Named Best of
The Director of the NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California has been named the 2009 Federal Laboratory Consortium Laboratory Director of the Year...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Social Dynamics of Wikipedia
The WikiDashboard is a system that analyzes the social dynamics of a Wikipedia entry. Good overview article about it in Tech Review. By examining the social dynamics...
From Putting People First
Jan-Christoph Zoels talk at India
Experientia partner Jan-Christoph Zoels is currently in Ahmedabad, India, for a client project. But he found time for an informal talk at the highly acclaimed National...
From insideHPC
Germany goes
Forschungszentrum Juelich (FZJ) has a press release (in German) announcing that the Gauss Center for Supercomputing (GCS) (a co-orperation between the German national...
From Putting People First
Interview with John Knight, user experience manager at Vodafone
John Knight, user experience manager at Vodafone’s UE Design Development team was interviewed by Giles Colborne of cxpartners. “One of the things I
From The Eponymous Pickle
Robin Wight and the Peacock's Tail
Met Robin Wight, president of the WCRS & Engine Group, at the recent Neurocon 2009. He passes along this fascinating video: An amazing theory called The Peacock's...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Make Recovery.Gov Web 2.0 Friendly
All eyes are on one piece of legislation currently being considered by Congress -- The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. This legislation is essentially a...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cognitive Computing Project
Cognitive Computing project, seeking to reverse engineer the mind. Quite an ambitious project. See also Dharmendra Mondha's cognitive computing blog. I had"...
From CSDiary