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Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration
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Experience design for interactive products: designing technology augmented urban playgrounds for girls (pdf) is the long title of an interesting paper by Aadjan...Experientia From Putting People First | January 17, 2009 at 12:08 PM
I’ve just finished a meeting of the NRC CSTB, held at Google in Mountain View. I shouldn’t say too much about what went on, but it’s worth noting that I detected...Peter Lee From CSDiary | January 17, 2009 at 05:58 AM
Correspondent Herb Sorensen of TNS-Sorensen has a great piece in his Views series about Selling vs Order Taking which links to the history of retail itself andwrote...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | January 16, 2009 at 10:38 PM
Nominations are due on January 31, 2009, for the second annual Smiley Award for innovation in technology-assisted person-to-person communication. Details can be...Peter Lee From CSDiary | January 16, 2009 at 07:41 PM
IBM provides some interesting work in this area. I spoke to some of their people involved in this work last year and was impressed how they were leveraging all...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | January 16, 2009 at 07:25 PM
As we begin a new year, we can only imagine what new technological innovations will be created this year that will change the way people live their lives. InGotta... From Computer Science Teachers Association | January 16, 2009 at 05:16 PM
I am a late student to product placement. Around since 1896 when Sunlight Soap was featured in a number of Lumiere silent movies. A frame at the right. Here....Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | January 16, 2009 at 03:52 PM
IBM Leads US patent count 16th year in a row, openly publishes patent innovations, seeking to "...balance open and proprietary innovation ... " .Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | January 16, 2009 at 03:51 PM
While the stimulus has not been finalized, the House Appropriations Committee has circulated a summary of the major components. From the committee summary:
Scientific...David Bruggeman From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM | January 16, 2009 at 12:00 AM
I’m writing today from the Google campus in Mountain View. However, the news today isn’t about Google — it’s about Tuomas Sandholm. The Association for Computing...Peter Lee From CSDiary | January 15, 2009 at 10:42 PM
Feature article at HPCwire with a great title, “HPC@Intel: When to Say No to Parallelism.”
As a software developer, you are faced with a range of options as you...John West From insideHPC | January 15, 2009 at 07:33 PM
Here’s a pointer to an article that looks interesting that I found at HPCwire.
Eli Lilly’s Dave Powers talks compellingly about how the pharmaceuticals company...John West From insideHPC | January 15, 2009 at 07:29 PM
Joe Landman alerted us to the weight reduction plan at Rackable following a Q4 sales downturn. From the story at El Reg
Going public has not been as much fun for...John West From insideHPC | January 15, 2009 at 07:22 PM
I just discovered IBM's Building a Smarter Planet Blog: Instrumented, Interconnected, Intelligent. Which was started up last November. Following.Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | January 15, 2009 at 07:15 PM
An example of Steganography, which hides data. While encryption " ... obscures the meaning of a message, but it does not conceal the fact that there is a message...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | January 15, 2009 at 07:04 PM
I have played in the space of analytic modeling for thirty years. It surprised me about five years ago when I was approached by people saying that they planned...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | January 15, 2009 at 03:17 PM
Every few years, the database research community prepares reports listing the most promising research directions. The previous one was called the Lowell report,... From Daniel Lemire's Blog | January 15, 2009 at 03:17 PM
More on people-centric sensing, this time by LIFT’s Fabien Girardin, and it’s as if he is taking the Nokia paper I just wrote about one step further:
“In the past...Experientia From Putting People First | January 15, 2009 at 12:41 PM
The Nokia Research Center published a short paper on participatory mobile sensing that I like very much because of its human-centred approach:
By putting mobile...Experientia From Putting People First | January 15, 2009 at 12:23 PM
Have you checked out Google's great open source barcode recognition library called ZXing ("zebra crossing")? It's really powerful, free and (halfway) platform independent...Johannes Fahrenkrug From Springenwerk Blog | January 15, 2009 at 11:37 AM