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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 The Eponymous Pickle
Singularity University
Ray Kurzweil has launched the Singularity University. More on a technological Singularity. A futurist view driven by technological developments.
From The Eponymous Pickle
On Microsoft's BI Strategy
Tableau Software's view of Microsoft's new Business Intelligence strategy.
From insideHPC
Fast Forward to 2012: IBM Breaks
The US Department of Energy has just announced a program awarded to IBM that will birth a 20 Petaflop supercomputer by the year 2012.
From Putting People First
What the heck is user experience design??!!
Audio interview with Jesse James Garrett, president and co-founder of Adaptive Path. Some describe it as making things easy and enjoyable to use. Others describe...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Action Alert! Urge Your Representatives to Support Science
A very important message to the Computing Research Advocacy Network (CRAN) is now on the CRA Government Affairs Blog. We are asking our members to contact their...
From Putting People First
Book: The Reconstruction of Space and Time: Mobile Communication Practices
The Reconstruction of Space and Time: Mobile Communication Practices By Rich Ling, Scott Campbell (editors) Published by Transaction Publishers, 2008 ISBN 141280809X...
From Putting People First
Book: Mobile Technologies - From Telecommunications to Media
Mobile Technologies - From Telecommunications to Media Editors: Gerard Goggin; Larissa Hjorth ISBN: 978-0-415-98986-2 (hardback) 978-0-203-88431-7 (electronic) Series...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Compressed bitmaps in Java
A bitmap is an efficient array of boolean values. They are commonly used in bitmap indexes. The Java language has a bitmap class: BitSet. Unfortunately, the Java...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
One of the fathers of academic blogging is back
Seb Paquet resumed blogging. Why should you go subscribe to his new blog? At some point, he was one of the most read bloggers in the world. He is one of the first...
From insideHPC
Altair Releases Personal
HPCWire: Altair released a new version of their popular batch scheduling software package, deemed Personal PBS.
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Geek Chic
A recent article in the New York Times In 'Geek Chic' and Obama, New Hope for Lifting Women in Science offered hope that the new administration would act on efforts...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Bullish
With lots of fear mongering and money being thrown around it is good to see that some companies are still pushing private enterprise and being bullish about ad....
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Advice to upcoming Ph.D.s
As a comment to my previous post, Steven wrote: Any advice for someone that thought a Ph.D. in Computer Science was a good idea in 2004 that plan to graduate in...
From insideHPC
Cray Clears Common Criteria
Cray has announced that their Cray Linux Environment [CLE] has just been certified under the Common Criteria Evaluation and Validation Scheme.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Success in Open Innovation
In a recent review post of the book: Crowdsourcing by Jeff Howe I mentioned P&G's use of Innocentive for open innovation. A competitor of Innocentive is NineSigma...
From insideHPC
BYO Supercomputer. Worth
NetworkWorld posted a feature article this morning on Bruce Allen, astrophysicist turned supercomputer manufacturer.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Age Perception Game
An age perception game: How Old are You?. Testing several things: How well can a person determine the age of a person from varying styles of images? And how...
From insideHPC
Supercomputing in the US Senate stimulus
A PAC called the Senate Conservatives Fund, who according to their website are “dedicated to electing true conservatives to the United States Senate,” is highlighting...
From insideHPC
Getting more from your power dollar in the
Article in EE Times last week on the inefficiencies of power delivery in datacenters these days, particularly supercomputing data centers. The problem? Conversions...
From insideHPC