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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
RCA Design Interactions
Matt Jones writes about a short project he worked on last November with the students on the Design Interactions course at the RCA in collaboration with Vodafone’s...
From Putting People First
IDEO
On April 1, IDEO founder David Kelley will be awarded the Edison Achievement Award by the Thomas Edison Papers at Rutgers University for his
From Springenwerk Blog
A Weekend of OpenSocial at Google in Mountain View
I got an email this week from Max Marmer, on of the co-organizers for the weekend apps event this February 20-22 at the Googleplex in Mountain View. Since I'vecontact...
From The Eponymous Pickle
On-Line Graphical Facilitation
Friend David Sibbet describes work he is doing to demonstrate the state of using visualization to run online meetings at upcoming VizThink meeting. Will be a "...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Text to Speech
A nice demonstration of unconstrained English text-to-Speech from IBM Labs. I gave it the classic 'ice cream' example and it was not quite able to speak it differently...
From insideHPC
GPU-HMMER
My pal Joe at Scalable Informatics (during the day, and scalability.org during the late nights he keeps) sent me an email with news of an NVIDIA CUDA extension...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Great K-12 Outreach Videos Now Available
In the two years, CSTA has launched a number of programs to help college and university faculty and staff in their K-12 outreach efforts. One of the most successful...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Latitude
Google Latitude will let you see where your friends are on Google Maps. Newly launched, soon to be available for IPhone.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Finding a Job
From Guy Kawasaki's blog: Ten Ways to Use Linkedin to Find a Job. Mostly common sense, but worth a read if you are in the market.
From insideHPC
Book review: Principles of Parallel
In case you don’t read the sidebar (you really should, you know), I’ve written a review of Calvin Lin and Larry Snyder’s relatively new book, “Principles of Parallel...
From insideHPC
Folding for
My pals at NVIDIA sent me an email today letting me know about a special way this month that you can take part in the fight against cancer. Scott Sherman’s 13 year...
From insideHPC
SiCortex matriculates at
(No, I used it right. I looked it up.) Today HPC vendor SiCortex announced that they’ve sent their boy to college, old world style The SiCortex system at the University...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Caring About Blog Traffic
I do follow my blog's traffic using Google Analytics. I watch hits and and try to figure out why what I have written creates certain changes. I am a stats compulsive...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bayes and Business Intelligence
A very well one piece on Bayesian modeling and Business Intelligence. Now part 1, and just published part 2. Anyone that does BI should understand the basics...
From insideHPC
Intel Parallel Studio
Intel’s Parallel Studio, about which I wrote in this article for HPCwire, is now available in beta. From Intel Intel Parallel Studio, a suite of development tools...
From insideHPC
Cloud computing in plain
Rich at Sun’s HPC Watercooler went movie diving at YouTube, and came back with a gem. “Cloud computing in plain english” does a good job explaining cloud computing...
From insideHPC
Sun HPC development tools
Our buddies at Sun’s HPC Watercooler have posted info on a new webinar from Sun HPC Development Solutions: Sun Studio and HPC Clustertools In this webinar, you...
From insideHPC
Startup launches virtualized shared memory
Earlier this week startup RNA Networks announced that it has launched a software platform that aggregates memory among servers and makes it available to all the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Visualizing Target Growth
From Flowing Data, a visualization of the growth of Target Stores throughout the US.Links to a display of the US, which shows year by year how Target grew. A...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM