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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
Cognitive Computing Project
Cognitive Computing project, seeking to reverse engineer the mind. Quite an ambitious project. See also Dharmendra Mondha's cognitive computing blog. I had"...
From CSDiary
Tony Tether DARPA Directorship to End in February
A quick news flash: Emails are floating around indicating that Tony Tether’s tenure as the Director of DARPA will end this month, with the two week notice on February...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kindle 2
Amazon introduces the Kindle 2. Again, I do not want to drag around another device. Put it on my phone.
From insideHPC
Karlsruhe Selects
HPCWire: SiCortex, today, announced that they have gained the business of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology [KIT] in Germany.
From insideHPC
Lamar University Jumps on the
Lamar University announced today that a group of their faculty have been granted access to the Teragrid.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Report from Cracow Neurocon Panel
From the Neuroconnections 2009 meeting. The Neurocon panel in Cracow was run live on the Polish CNBC affiliate on Saturday. The object of the debate was to itemize...
From insideHPC
Sun Grid Engine Update
Sun’s HPC blog has posted a video from the Sun HPC Consortium the weekend before Supercomputing 2008.
From insideHPC
Roshydromet Weather Forecasting on
Russia’s Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring [Roshydromet] have procured a series of SGI machines in order to improve the precision...
From insideHPC
Voltaire Announces 40Gb/s Director
Voltaire has announced the latest addition to their Infiniband switching product line.
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Honesty is charisma
Honesty is charisma. Whenever you are honest, even if you are controversial, many people will respond positively to you.
From Putting People First
Dan Ariely on a new type of economy
IdeasProject, an excellent Nokia site, interviewed behavioural economist, MIT Media Lab contributor and best-selling author Dan Ariely. He said that web technologies...
From insideHPC
HPC seminar in
The HPC Watercooler points to a perfect opportunity to redeem those Sky Miles you’ve been hoarding: head north for HPC in Vancouver Our friends at HPCVL are sponsoring...
From insideHPC
Itanium upgrade
From Computerworld earlier this month Intel Corp. on Tuesday said it has delayed the release of the quad-core Tukwila chip, its next-generation 64-bit Itanium processor...
From insideHPC
32nm on track at
Multicoreinfo.com points us to this story at the EE Times Despite recent layoffs and fab closings, Intel Corp. remains on track to deliver its first 32nm processors...
From insideHPC
HiPC coming to
From HPCwire The 16th annual IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC 2009) will be held in Cochin, India, during Dec. 16-19, 2009. It...
From insideHPC
Senate: science and computing doing ok so
Peter Harsha at the excellent Policy Blog of the CRA reports on some of the twists on the way to the US Senate’s version of the stimulus bill becoming law. $1.2B...
From Putting People First
Why computers can
MIT researchers argue that computers need to become as easy to use as those yellow sticky notes. Office workers are like electricity: When they want to get something...
From The Eponymous Pickle