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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 insideHPC
CIBC Winter Workshop
Through the SCIRUN-USERS mailing list, Rob MacLeod announced the 2008/2009 Center for Integrative Biomedical Computing [CIBC] Winter Workshop: Boston Edition.
From Putting People First
Watch the video - Mobile Banking for Poor People: Pioneer Perspectives
Last week, the World Bank’s CGAP hosted a roundtable and webinar on the important topic of how mobile phone banking can deliver a range of financial services to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Blowing into your Cell Phone
There have been a number of keyboard instruments for the IP, so when I first read of a wind instrument app I thought ... how would that work? There is an Ocarina...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Parsing CSV files is CPU bound: a C++ test case (Update 2)
I am continuing my fun saga to determine whether parsing CSV files is CPU bound or I/O bound. Recall that I posted some C++ code and reported that it took 96 seconds...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Image Search
Via Google Blogoscoped I see that Google Image search now has some new advanced options which lets you search for just clip art or line drawings. Also previously...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Computing Research Initiatives for the 21st Century
Today’s main message is: Check out http://www.cra.org/ccc/initiatives. Please! And tell your friends and colleagues! (Any reactions or suggestions can be posted...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Parsing CSV files is CPU bound: a C++ test case (Update 1)
(See update 2.) In a recent blog post, I said that parsing simple CSV files could be CPU bound. By parsing, I mean reading the data on disk and copying it into...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
ACM Urges Obama To Include Computer Science As A Core Component Of Science And Math Education
Yesterday President-Elect Obama announced his intention to nominate Arne Duncan for the Secretary of Education. Mr. Duncan is currently CEO of Chicago's school...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Fast argmax in Python
In my post Computing argmax fast in Python, I reported that Python has no builtin function to compute argmax, the position of a maximal value. I provided one such...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
The Synthese Recommender System
Andre Vellino has just opened his Synthese Recommender System: a recommender for journal articles. Andre works for one of the largest scientific libraries in the...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Parsing CSV files is CPU bound: a C++ test case
(These results were updated.) In Parsing text files is CPU bound, I claimed that I had a C++ test case proving that parsing CSV files could be CPU bound. By CPU...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Why is the free market letting us down?
I often lean on the right politically. The idea that the free market will work is compelling. Free markets may be good at generating some form of wealth, but as...
From Wild WebMink
Link roundup to December 15
FOSDEM Video RecordingsListing of videos of all the advertised talks at FOSDEM for the last few years.New Paper Shredder Actually Recycles Paper at the OfficeThis...
From Wild WebMink
Link Roundup to December 13
Alpinisms: School Of Seven BellsCaptivating music in a style I can't quite pin down. Was sucked in by an interview and the track "Half Asleep" which is a free download...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Real World Learning in a Web Design Class
I started teaching web design to students when the World Wide Web started to explode in 1994. Back then my students used HTML and notepad to create the school's...
From Wild WebMink
Link roundup to December 12
Linux - Stop holding our kids backThe teacher in this case has the tone of someone who tried religion once at college and now is an ardent atheist. Sadly, the campaigner...
From Wild WebMink
Celebrating Anniversaries
This has been a time for anniversaries. It's been 25 years since Richard Stallman started the GNU Project, 40 years since Doug Engelbart demonstrated the future...
From Wild WebMink
Link Roundup to December 10
HearFromYourMPBritish? Sign up to hear from your MP about local issues, and to discuss them with other constituents.Did Coldplay copy Joe Satriani?Whether theyColdplay...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM