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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
Horizon Graphs
Stephen Few writes about horizon graphs for time series designed for visualization and comparison: " ... horizon graphs can meaningfully display 50 or so full....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neuroscience Boot Camp
Get your boots out, you can be fully trained this summer.-
From The Eponymous Pickle
Britannica Prepares to Create Community
In a perhaps inevitable change, Britannica is planning a major change to the way it gathers knowledge, making it more wiki-like. Establishing a community of experts...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
What comes first, theory or experiments?
In “my research process“, I explain how I proceed to produce research papers. As a comment to my most recent post, Peter Turney wrote: I don
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analytics vs Gut Feelings
An Accenture study says that 60% of major decisions are made with analytics and 40% are made with gut judgement. Business leaders think that more attention should...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Why I write bad papers (sometimes)
My Write good papers paper gives a fairly reliable recipe to write good papers. I think it is difficult to good wrong if you follow this recipe. How is it, then...
From insideHPC
Rackable Introduces MicroSlice
Rackable Systems has introduced its latest series of dense server platform based on some new technology they have developed, deemed MicroSlice.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Large Lectures Replaced
In the NYT, an article about how universities like MIT are replacing " .... traditional large introductory lecture with smaller classes that emphasize hands-on,...
From Springenwerk Blog
Links for 2009-01-21 [del.icio.us]
SapphireSteel :: Ruby On Rails With Flex Ruby in Steel :: Ruby On Rails programming in Visual Studio
From Putting People First
95% of mobile users would use more data services if setup were easier
Press release: Complexity is preventing uptake and usage of mobile applications and services, according to a survey of US and UK consumers commissioned by mobile...
From Putting People First
BUG+IDEO blog
IDEO just announced a quick open user interface exploration project with Bug Labs, that will run for a little over a week on a new public blog BUG+IDEO. An open...
From Putting People First
EU President Barroso discusses how to boost
Yesterday President Barroso met social innovation experts and stakeholders in Brussels, following a workshop organised by the Bureau of European Policy Advisers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Roundtable Talks
A bit dated to mention this, but there is a talkshow format set of talks about technologies. Includes one on natural language translation that I posted about some...
From Putting People First
Book: Designing for the Digital Age
Designing for the Digital Age: How to Create Human-Centered Products and Services [amazon] by Kim Goodwin, Alan Cooper Wiley (March 2009) Paperback: 768 pages ISBN...
From Putting People First
Bad usability calendar
The (in)famous Bad Usability Calendar has featured 48 classic design mistakes in 13 different languages since 2005. Now it is available in its 2009 edition (with...
From Putting People First
Top kitchen toy? The cellphone
According to the New York Times’ Julia Moskin, the cellphone has transformed the kitchen lives of many Americans. “It has become the kitchen tool of choice for...
From insideHPC
IBM reports record
Interesting story from The Register on why Big Blue is even smugger than usual right now There’s a lot of bad economic news floating around, but there wasn’t much...
From insideHPC
Assystem UK using
I’m only running it for the headline — no, it’s not a typo. Original PR at HPCwire, blurb below Altair Engineering, Inc., a leading global provider of technology...
From insideHPC
HPC helps build crankshafts 80%
UK HPC integrator OCF (one of the companies I wrote about in this article about the UK HPC market) has delivered an HPC system that really gets at the heart of...
From insideHPC