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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 Noisy Channel
Catching Up With Hunch
Last week, I stopped by the Hunch office to learn more about what they’re doing, as well as to contribute my own thoughts about socially enhanced decision making...
From insideHPC
ANL
The NSF.gov site is running a video interview with Kate Keahey of the Nimbus project, a cloud computing infrastructure developed at Argonne National Lab. Nimbus...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-05-11
Linux Breaking Through The Microsoft Monopoly Excellent and encouraging analysis from Robin here. Scott McNealy has been saying...
From The Eponymous Pickle
MySears Community
Recently I took a look at Sears new IPhone application. Not very exciting, but it works well. They are continuing with a social networking called MySears. The...
From insideHPC
UK Met tries to cure its black
The UK Met Office (the British government’s weather forecasting agency, founded in 1854) had some bad press in January of this year when the TimesOnline ran an...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tech and Simplicity
Technology simplifies tasks, but complicates lives. Good reminder, we need it.
From insideHPC
Russian HPC vendor announces Tesla
T-Platforms announced late last week that they’ve joined the ranks of vendors enthusiastic about NVIDIA’s Prefconfigured Tesla Cluster program T-Platforms, the...
From insideHPC
New version of CUDA
NVIDIA announced last week that it has released version 2.2 of CUDA, which includes support for Windows 7 among other features. Some of the highlights Visual Profiler...
From insideHPC
HPCS 2009 program, workshops
The Canadian High Performance Computing Symposium 2009 program has been announced and you can find details at www.hpcs2009.org. The symposium is also hosting a...
From insideHPC
The most dangerous
…from a computer program, as a professor at my alma mater used to say, is an answer that looks “about right.” Dan Reed has an interesting post on his blog right...
From Putting People First
Gemalto, Microsoft, Nokia and Philips team up to advance
At the Future of the Internet conference in Prague today, Gemalto, Microsoft, Nokia and Philips announced a new initiative that will address the fundamental societal...
From CSDiary
Back from Qatar
In a week it will be commencement weekend at Carnegie Mellon. The ceremony will hold special interest for the School of Computer Science, since Google CEO Eric...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Asymmetric Following
O'Reilly on asymmetric following. This is an aspect of social media I had been thinking about since being introduced to them. He has some excellent points here...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Netezza Links with eHarmony
Another interesting application of advanced data warehousing capabilities. With other applications matching consumers and retailers:" ... Online dating service...
From Putting People First
Book: Identity in the Age of Cloud Computing
Identity in the Age of Cloud Computing: The next-generation Internet’s impact on business, governance and social interaction J.D. Lasica The Aspen Institute, 2009...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The End of Voice Mail
Now that I am using systems like Google Voice I thought about the ultimate demise of voice mail. Yet that system does not always provide a good transcription of...
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-05-10
New Pattern Found in Prime Numbers Fascinating, and now it's discovered so obvious you wonder why no-one else has observed it before...
From Putting People First
Journal of Business Strategy on design innovation
A special issue of Journal of Business Strategy on
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