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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 insideHPC
The dangers of a monoculture for the future of
Joe Landman pointed to this presentation (PDF) by Paul Lu at U of Alberta on the emerging monocultures in HPC (x86, InfiniBand, Linux) and the risks posed by the...
From insideHPC
A look at Tesla
Doug Eadline over at ClusterMonkey got an early Christmas present from NVIDIA: a look at the year in Tesla technology: It is not often someone does our job for...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Buyology Presentation in Cincinnati
If you are in the Cincinnati area join us. I will be there. We are delighted to invite you to attend an exclusive presentation by Martin Lindstrom on his bestselling...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Leadership Cohort Update
During the time since the first Leadership Cohort Workshop in July, members have been busy with advocacy efforts in their various states. Previous blog posts by...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Mind Reading and Marketing on 60 Minutes
From the Neuromarketing blog, I see that there was a piece on brain scanning and its applications on 60 Minutes. Includes a link to the program itself. More about...
From insideHPC
Jaguar Supercomputer Accepted, Cray Buys More
Cray has announced that the one petaflop Jaguar supercomputer installed at Oak Ridge National Lab officially passed its acceptance tests at the end of 2008.
From Putting People First
Nokia
Nearly by accident I discovered Nokia’s recently launched IdeasProject, an effort “to surface Big Ideas about the future of communications — and to show the many...
From Putting People First
On futures and design
Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, researcher director at the Institute for the Future, has posted a thoughtful essay on his blog about how trends in computing and design might...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Book Scanning Continues
Good article in the NYTimes on Google book search. The value of building a complete digital library. A settlement in October with authors and publishers has cleared...
From insideHPC
Your last HPC book? The best HPC-related book
What’s the last HPC-related book you bought, and when did you buy it? What’s the best HPC-related book you’ve ever bought (you define “best” however you’d like:...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Neuroscience of the Self
In Edge, an interesting essay:Self Awareness: The Last Frontier By neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran. This is about how any thinking system ultimately considers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Logic Programming
I was just connected to a UK company called Logic Programming Associates Ltd. Which has a number of products including WIN-Prolog and VisiRule. The latter has...
From CSDiary
CMU Mind Readers
Research on machine learning — that is, machines that improve with experience — has made astounding progress over the past decade or so. Such research is very mathematical...
From Putting People First
People-centred design in times of frugality
The current economic recession is turning out to be very severe (The Guardian evokes the spectre of a 1930s-style depression), with rich countries being the biggest...
From The Eponymous Pickle
TouchGraph Revisited
I looked at TouchGraph some time ago. A means of visualizing searches and determining the connections between search results. Many new features in this new version...
From Putting People First
M-banking and economic development
Jonathan Donner of Microsoft Research India and Camilo Andres Tellez of the London School of Economics and Political Science have together written a paper on mobile...
From Putting People First
Why products fail
Computerworld columnist Mike Elgan argues that most gadget and software makers don’t understand what users want most: control. Both users and product designers...
From Putting People First