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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 U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Net Neutrality Connected to Broadband Stimulus
Funds for broadband deployment are part of the economic stimulus package currently under construction on Capitol Hill. Worth noting is that this funding has at...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IEEE Computing Now: Search Viz
IEEE Computing Now is in Beta. Here is a current article on visualization. Pak Chung Wong of Pacific Northwest Laboratory gives us an overview of their work under...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Crowd-Sourcing the World
This is quite ambitious, I see that Nokia is involved. How do we know this will be used for good rather than evil? Even a bit less than evil?"Crowd-Sourcing the...
From insideHPC
Staying linked in to
I asked a question in several different places over the holidays about where people go to stay current about HPC, both in terms of technology and professional development...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
CSTA is Looking Beyond the US
CSTA has as its main objective "to support and promote the teaching of computer science and other computing disciplines. CSTA provides opportunities for K-12 teachers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Peter+Trudy
Peter and Trudy Johnson-Lenz are consultants who worked with Procter & Gamble while we were working with the Institute for the Future in the 90s. They did an excellent...
From Springenwerk Blog
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From The Eponymous Pickle
Comparing Google Knol and Wikipedia
Not much competition so far. Also minimal editing in Knol has led to dropping quality. Can it survive? There is still not much critical mass or attempt at basic...
From CSDiary
Back from the Inauguration
Well, my attempts to live-blog from the Inauguration fizzled. The signal strength was usually very good but actually getting bits transmitted reliably from my iPhone...
From insideHPC
AMD to Cut 1,100 and Slash
AMD announced last Friday that they will soon cut 1,100 positions in an effort to reduce costs.
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Observations from New Zealand
My husband, Dr. Mark Guzdial, and I are at the ACSW 2009 conference in Wellington, New Zealand. Dr. Wayne Mapp, the Minister for Research, Science, and Technology...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kraft IPhone Application a Success
It appears that the Kraft IFood Application, which I have used and reviewed, is a success, see this AdAge article: " ... One of the coolest apps on the iPhone isn't...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Emotions killing your intellectual productivity
I have written much about intellectual productivity on this blog. If we were machines running mechanical tasks, our productivity would be high. Alas, we are human...
From insideHPC
Open Education Cup deadline draws
Reader Terrence Liao emailed me with a reminder that the deadline for the Open Education Cup is drawing near The deadline (February 2, 2009) for submitting content...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smarter World
IBM Video: Tale of a Smarter Planet on a smarter world, emphasizing global sensor interconnectivity and analytics to provide intelligence. Well done. Very high...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Paying the Turk for a Post
In the news this weekend has been the enlistment of fake reviews for the electronics company Belkin. Similar to pay-per-post, but here the going in assumptionastroturfing...
From insideHPC
Mellanox IB Silicon on TYAN Server
Mellanox has announced that its ConnectX 40Gb/s Infiniband adapters have been selected for Landed-on-Motherboard [LOM] applications across TYAN’s S7017 server motherboard...
From insideHPC
Will NCSA be stiffed on state funds to house Blue
Now, this is interesting, in a “gee I’m glad that’s not my problem” kind of way. Article on Friday of last week in the Chicago Sun-Times that gives broader voice...
From insideHPC
Budget set for Japan
The Cheer HPC blog (a new blog that covers HPC happenings in Japan) has news from the Asian Technology Information Program website about the budget for Japan’s...
From insideHPC