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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
Kraft IPhone Application a Success
It appears that the Kraft IFood Application, which I have used and reviewed, is a success, see this AdAge article: " ... One of the coolest apps on the iPhone isn't...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Emotions killing your intellectual productivity
I have written much about intellectual productivity on this blog. If we were machines running mechanical tasks, our productivity would be high. Alas, we are human...
From insideHPC
Open Education Cup deadline draws
Reader Terrence Liao emailed me with a reminder that the deadline for the Open Education Cup is drawing near The deadline (February 2, 2009) for submitting content...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smarter World
IBM Video: Tale of a Smarter Planet on a smarter world, emphasizing global sensor interconnectivity and analytics to provide intelligence. Well done. Very high...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Paying the Turk for a Post
In the news this weekend has been the enlistment of fake reviews for the electronics company Belkin. Similar to pay-per-post, but here the going in assumptionastroturfing...
From insideHPC
Mellanox IB Silicon on TYAN Server
Mellanox has announced that its ConnectX 40Gb/s Infiniband adapters have been selected for Landed-on-Motherboard [LOM] applications across TYAN’s S7017 server motherboard...
From insideHPC
Will NCSA be stiffed on state funds to house Blue
Now, this is interesting, in a “gee I’m glad that’s not my problem” kind of way. Article on Friday of last week in the Chicago Sun-Times that gives broader voice...
From insideHPC
Budget set for Japan
The Cheer HPC blog (a new blog that covers HPC happenings in Japan) has news from the Asian Technology Information Program website about the budget for Japan’s...
From insideHPC
New HPC services, hosting firm announced in
UK-based EigenForge Limited came out of the closet, press release in hand on Monday of this week. EigenForge will focus in three areas of business 1) Fully Managed...
From insideHPC
Digging into Data challenge announced, first deadline March
From HPCwire Friday Today, a new, international competition called the Digging into Data Challenge was announced by four leading research agencies: the Joint Information...
From insideHPC
UK Met Office super found to have a black
The TimesOnline ran a story last week about the UK Met Office’s new
From CSDiary
Waiting in Line
First blog from the Inauguration. The crowds are HUGE. Even for those of us with seated tickets, the lines for security screening are more than a mile long....
From insideHPC
House Democrats have innovation on their
The outstanding Computing Research Policy Blog has an analysis of what the Democrats propose to do with respect to science and computing to stimulate the economy...
From Putting People First
Palm provides a case study in user experience strategy
Very nice and in-depth review by Marek Pawlowski: Palm, which launched a new flagship device and platform earlier this month, is a company staring at the very real...
From insideHPC
NVIDIA enlists CUDA services
Last week NVIDIA announced a new partnership with India-based Wipro Technologies to provide CUDA professional services. “We are approached by customers and ISVs...
From insideHPC
Use Twitter or Facebook? Partial to blogs? Now you can get your SC09 fix however you want
Fellow HPC blogger and Java chopper impresario Rich Brueckner from Sun is running social media for SC09, and already has things kicked off with a Twitter account...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Civil Nanotechnology
In a post in the Foresight blog: Civil nanotechnology: Open source sensing in Seed magazine. The promotion of nanotech enabled open source sensors in the environment...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
A Computer Science Honor Society?
Does your high school have chapters of any subject-specific honor societies, such as Mu Alpha Theta (math), Science National Honor Society, Tri-M (music), or one...
From insideHPC
Tabor Research stands by positive HPC outlook in down
Addison Snell at Tabor Research published an interesting read last week at the HPCwire blog. With the economy beginning to crash down around us, Tabor Research...
From insideHPC