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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
Itsme concept evaluation
Some months ago I wrote on Core77 about Itsme, a new “design-driven” way of organizing the contents of a PC, covering both the hardware and the software of the...
From Putting People First
Experience design for interactive products
Experience design for interactive products: designing technology augmented urban playgrounds for girls (pdf) is the long title of an interesting paper by Aadjan...
From CSDiary
Major Science Funding Called for in House Stimulus Plan
I’ve just finished a meeting of the NRC CSTB, held at Google in Mountain View. I shouldn’t say too much about what went on, but it’s worth noting that I detected...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Selling vs Order Taking
Correspondent Herb Sorensen of TNS-Sorensen has a great piece in his Views series about Selling vs Order Taking which links to the history of retail itself andwrote...
From CSDiary
Smiley Award: Call for Nominations
Nominations are due on January 31, 2009, for the second annual Smiley Award for innovation in technology-assisted person-to-person communication. Details can be...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Enterprise Use of Social Networks
IBM provides some interesting work in this area. I spoke to some of their people involved in this work last year and was impressed how they were leveraging all...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Resources for Addressing Equity Issues in 2009
As we begin a new year, we can only imagine what new technological innovations will be created this year that will change the way people live their lives. InGotta...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Irrational Product Placement
I am a late student to product placement. Around since 1896 when Sunlight Soap was featured in a number of Lumiere silent movies. A frame at the right. Here....
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Leads Patents
IBM Leads US patent count 16th year in a row, openly publishes patent innovations, seeking to "...balance open and proprietary innovation ... " .
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Science and Technology Have Piece of Stimulus Pie
While the stimulus has not been finalized, the House Appropriations Committee has circulated a summary of the major components. From the committee summary: Scientific...
From CSDiary
Tuomas Sandholm Named ACM Fellow
I’m writing today from the Google campus in Mountain View. However, the news today isn’t about Google — it’s about Tuomas Sandholm. The Association for Computing...
From insideHPC
Just say
Feature article at HPCwire with a great title, “HPC@Intel: When to Say No to Parallelism.” As a software developer, you are faced with a range of options as you...
From insideHPC
Eli Lilly using cloud
Here’s a pointer to an article that looks interesting that I found at HPCwire. Eli Lilly’s Dave Powers talks compellingly about how the pharmaceuticals company...
From insideHPC
Rackable lays off
Joe Landman alerted us to the weight reduction plan at Rackable following a Q4 sales downturn. From the story at El Reg Going public has not been as much fun for...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smarter Planet Blog
I just discovered IBM's Building a Smarter Planet Blog: Instrumented, Interconnected, Intelligent. Which was started up last November. Following.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Hidden Data
An example of Steganography, which hides data. While encryption " ... obscures the meaning of a message, but it does not conceal the fact that there is a message...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Predictive Analytics
I have played in the space of analytic modeling for thirty years. It surprised me about five years ago when I was approached by people saying that they planned...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
The Claremont report on database research
Every few years, the database research community prepares reports listing the most promising research directions. The previous one was called the Lowell report,...
From Putting People First
People-centric sensing in the city of the near future
More on people-centric sensing, this time by LIFT’s Fabien Girardin, and it’s as if he is taking the Nokia paper I just wrote about one step further: “In the past...
From Putting People First