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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 Putting People First
Nokia
Expanding Horizons is a quarterly publication aimed at ICT decision-makers in the private and public sectors. It explores the socio-economic benefits that mobile...
From Wild WebMink
Link Roundup on March 6
Mozilla and CyberMentors "The Internet is full of bullies, not predators" - This looks like a great way to do something practical to protect young people on the...
From Putting People First
The user experience of money: how interaction design can help
Alexa Andrzejewski of Adaptive Path reflects on the user experience of money: For anyone designing for consumer finance
From Apophenia
I want to evolve to not hear the cell phone
Whenever I'm in a public space where folks are blabbing away on their phones, I want to scream. Trains, cafes, busses... they all drive me batty. I'm dreading the...
From Putting People First
Microsoft Research's 'Technology for Emerging Markets' group
The Technology for Emerging Markets group at Microsoft Research India seeks to address the needs and aspirations of people in emerging-market countries, including...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wolfram Announces Intelligence Effort
I was a long time user of Wolfram's Mathematica in the enterprise. I also read parts of his epic book: A New Kind of Science. Which is now online in its entirety...
From insideHPC
Cray and virtualization provider ScaleMP hook
From Cray’s website this morning, news that Cray is partnering with ScaleMP to use virtualization technology to bring shared memory to the company’s CX1 deskside...
From The Eponymous Pickle
What if?
Ken Karakotsios has a new post in his simulation blog called What if?. There he outlines the nature of models and simulation in a non-technical way. Over the...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Amazon Exposes a TeraByte
Article on Amazon's public data sets, worth taking a look:" ... Amazon.com changed the retail world. In the process the company built up so much surplus computing...
From insideHPC
Article explores answers for challenges faced by virtualization in
Twitter user LeahRosin tweeted a link to this article yesterday at SearchEnterpriseLinux.com, “Virtualization for high-performance computing on Linux: Critiques...
From Springenwerk Blog
github iPhone client
Wow, that was quick! It took only 6 days (or 4 work days) for my iPhone app to be reviewed and approved by Apple. It's my 3rd iPhone app, but my first own, not-for...
From insideHPC
Cilk++ 1.0 multicore C++ development environment
This week parallel programming platform developer Cilk Arts announced the release of 1.0 of their flagship product, Cilk++ for Windows and Linux The Cilk++ programming...
From insideHPC
Acceleware announces GPU services
This week HPC application appliance maker Acceleware (about whom I’ve written in depth before) announced the formation of a new professional services team Acceleware…announced...
From insideHPC
Hosted HPC on the
Michael Feldman blogs at HPCwire this week about the evident increase in customers taking advantage of hosted HPC services, and Microsoft’s Cloud Computing Futures...
From insideHPC
TeraGrid conference looking for education, workforce development
This week 2009 TeraGrid Conference announced it is looking for submissions that highlight successes in training and workforce development — part of HPC’s contribution...
From insideHPC
Russian HPC company intros cell-based system at
Russian HPC maker T-Platforms, which has sytems on the Top500, is showing off its new cell-based gear at CeBIT this week in Hanover T-Platforms company, the leading...
From insideHPC
SiCortex science to science
SiCortex announced this week that it is beginning a webinar series to highlight the ways in which HPC is used in science…on SiCortex gear, one presumes. In each...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Ada Lovelace DayGuest Blogger: Barbara Boucher Owens, USA
Ada Lovelace Day is March 24, 2009. A movement to promote female role models in technology is underfoot and you can help. But first some background, most of which...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kindle on the IPhone
I have mentioned here several times that I was not willing to drag around yet another device and so was not interested in buying a Kindle. I have tried a number...
From The Eponymous Pickle