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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
Easy Word Clouds
Wordle is a free online system by Jonathan Feinberg that lets you generate word clouds from text sources. The cloud above is one generated from recent posts to...
From insideHPC
Cooling CPUs with
Multicoreinfo.com points us to a Computerworld piece on nano-fridges for cooling your chips With heat sinks and fans not up to the task of cooling the 100-degree...
From insideHPC
Sun CEO says Rock on track for this
Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Register reports this week on news that Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz is (publicly) confident that the company’s new Rock processor will...
From insideHPC
QLogic announces Q3, posts
And speaking of vendors and quarterly announcements, QLogic announced this week. Highlights from their release Third Quarter Highlights Net revenue increased 4...
From insideHPC
Mellanox announces Q4 and FY2008, posts
InfiniBand vendor Mellanox announced its Q4 and 2008 annual results this week. Their press release provides a handy list so that yours truly doesn’t have to do...
From insideHPC
Looking inside Sun
I do not own any significant Sun gear at all, other than in my archive storage system, so I think I’m pretty unbiased when I say that one thing I really appreciate...
From insideHPC
QLogic builds support for IB channel partners in
Earlier this month QLogic announced a new program targeted at capitalizing on the increasing adoption of InfiniBand in HPC installations: The new SignatureHPC program...
From CERIAS Blog
A Modest Proposal
Yesterday and today I was reading repeated news stories about the pending bailout—much of it intended to prop up companies with failed business models and incompetent...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Branding Only Works on Cattle
Have now read Jonathan Salem Baskin's book: Branding Only Works on Cattle: The New Way to Get Known (and drive your competitors crazy). He also has a supporting...
From insideHPC
BOXXTech Releases Monster
BOXX Technologies, proprietors of high-end graphics workstations and servers, have announced the release of their latest high end workstation series, the 4850 Extreme...
From Putting People First
An experience designer at a technology company
Clive Grinyer wrote a highly honest, yet optimistic post about his experience of working in a hardcore technology company (Cisco) as a user experience designer....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Solar Goose
Tom Chorman, colleague of mine at Procter & Gamble has a new start-up called Solar Goose. He is marketing a whole group of solar powered rechargeable lightingSolar...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Biggest Kludges of Copyright Law
Lots of interesting information like this at the Plagiarism Today blog.
From Wild WebMink
Open Source Drives The New Sun
The Register article reporting Ian Murdock's move to Sun's new cloud computing group seems to have irritated Ian and it does indeed seem to be an attempt to gather...
From Putting People First
Mike Kuniavsky detangling the meanings around the design of services
Mike Kuniavsky (ThingM) is currently writing a ubicomp user experience design book. He just posted a few tidbits on service design: “There are two fundamental ways...
From Putting People First
Pachube: connecting environments, patching the planet
Pachube is a web service that enables you to connect, tag and share real time sensor data from objects, devices, buildings and environments around the world. The...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Important Things in Social Media
I see that former (in two enterprises) colleague Krista Neher is now CEO at Marketess Consulting where she just posted an item:
From The Eponymous Pickle