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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
Playing With Wolfram Alpha
Woo hoo, I have preview access to Wolfram Alpha! I’ve only had a short time to play with it, but I can already report that my experience confirms my previously...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Research interests should be short-lived?
How did I come to Computer Science? Through geophysics! I was once given data sets spanning several CD-ROMs. Back then, this was a lot of data!
From Putting People First
Daniel Kaplan
Daniel Kaplan, CEO of the French Next-Generation Internet Foundation (FING) and one of the driving forces behind the upcoming LIFT conference in Marseilles, France...
From insideHPC
UK Met Office Shooting for DC Direct
The UK Met Office is planning to upgrade its supercomputing systems in the next 18 months.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neuroscience of Illusion
Teller on the Neuroscience of illusion in Wired. There is something to learn here for the merchandising arts. " .. exploiting gaps in human perception ... " . Via...
From insideHPC
Super Micro rack mounts
From an article at The Register, news that Super Micro has a new breed of rack mounted server This doesn’t mean that low-powered Atom and similar processors - like...
From insideHPC
German Met installs NEC vector
From news at HPCwire One such national weather service is the German Meteorological Service, called Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD), based in Offenbach, Germany. Here...
From insideHPC
Flywheel UPS business grows, best practices
Enterprise IT Planet has posted their green news roundup. Here are a few items of interest to our community: Active Power, makers of flywheel-based UPS for green...
From Putting People First
The wisdom of community
In an article on A List Apart, Derek Powazek explores what it means to connect the ideas of James Surowiecki, expressed in his book The Wisdom of Crowds, to the...
From insideHPC
First winner announced today, still time to jump in the drawing for this week
I’ll be spinning the big wheel here at insideHPC HQ (I’ve always wanted to use that thing) to find out who the first week’s winner is in our Bribery is Fair Play...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
ACM Washington Update, Vol. 13.4 (May 6, 2009)
CONTENTS [1] Newsletter Highlights [2] Proposed Legislation Would Expand Federal Reach Into Cybersecurity [3] White House Cybersecurity Review Complete [4] U.S...
From Putting People First
In cellphone, India reveals an essence
Anand Giridharadas, South Asia correspondent at International Herald Tribune, describes what makes the cellphone special in India, and what it means for democracy...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Multitasking a Myth?
A NYT piece on the science of concentration says that concentration, once broken, can take twenty minutes to re-establish. Overviews some of the findings in the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Exxon Station Locator
It has been reported that ExxonMobil has released a new station locator using the Google API. It has also been pointed out that the service does not have a form...
From Springenwerk Blog
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Common issues when overloading code from plugins
From The Eponymous Pickle
Netezza and Pi Solutions
Certainly an interesting objective here: "... Pi Solutions and Netezza jointly sponsored a free web seminar focused on how true item-level profitability analytics...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Netezza and Green Business Intelligence
Piece from Insurance Networking News, includes 8 tips to green your business intelligence strategy ... a mention of Netezza, BI appliance innovator: " ... the BI...
From Putting People First
Inspiring articles by Elizabeth Churchill of Yahoo! Research
If you like the writings by the highly original Elizabeth Churchill, a principal research scientist at Yahoo! Research in charge of the Internet Experiences Group...
From insideHPC
Wolfram previews a kind of computational
c|net has an article on Wolfram Research’s new product, Wolfram Alpha, being launched later this month Wolfram Alpha is like a cross between a research library,...
From insideHPC