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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 Wild WebMink
The Third Wave on Video
While I was in Australia I recorded this video with the essence of my talk about the third wave of free and open source software and the adoption-led trend andfreedom...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Brain Processing Subliminal Messages
Roger Dooley posts on the processing of subliminal messages by the brain. Based on a 2007 University College London Study. It is known that the brain reacts to...
From insideHPC
Berkeley report calls for standard cloud API to drive
Well, it looks like someone at the EE Times hit the publish button a few hours early, since they refer to a press release for tomorrow in the present tense. But...
From insideHPC
Using virtualization to make many servers look like one
ScaleMP founder and CEO Shai Fultheim has an article today at the Virtualization Journal extolling the benefits of using server virtualization to aggregate many...
From insideHPC
Timelapse installation of Ireland
Last week SGI posted a release about the installation of a 2,500 core Altix ICE in Ireland last November. The system peaks at 25 TFLOPS, and made it to slot 117...
From insideHPC
Concurrent Thinking updates cluster
UK-based Concurrent Thinking announced this week the release of the latest version of their cluster appliances. From the release …these bring unprecedented simplicity...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Leadership Cohort Update - February 2009
Since the beginning of January, Leadership Cohort members have been instrumental in establishing new local chapters for the Southern New Jersey Shore and Houston...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Congress Finalizes Massive Boost in Science Funding
Late last night Congress released the first high-level details on the final agreement for the American Recovery and Reinvestment package. (For background, this...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Harsh Truths About Corporate Web Sites
An interesting article. Has some good points. One thing I did not agree with was that a company should suggest that its employees publicly blog and Tweet, as...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cellphone Location or Spying?
Google Latitude has brought it up again ... more on cell phone location.
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Sim visits 'Go Girls Go for IT' in AustraliaGuest Blogger: Annemieke Craig, Australia
The last years of secondary school are important for thinking about what careers students can consider. Declining number of females studying computing at tertiary...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Academic applied research is
While pure theory is wasteful, bringing applied research to academia is equally wasteful! Applied research seeks to produce applied results. These results are...
From insideHPC
Cray announces Q4 and 2008 results, posts paper
Cray announced its financial results for both Q4 and its fiscal year ended December 31. For 2008, Cray reported revenue of $282.9 million and a net loss of ($31...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Future of Newspapers
Nick Carr examines the future of newspapers: Smaller, tighter, hybrids, micropayments or just mostly gone?
From insideHPC
NVIDIA Releases Q4
NVIDIA has released its financial results for the fourth quarter of FY2009.
From Putting People First
The Internet of Things and mobile devices
Ajit Jaokar, founder of futuretext, just wrote a somewhat technical article on his blog where he discusses the basic ideas and significance of the Internet of Things...
From Putting People First
Book: The Language of Things
The Language of Things: Understanding the World of Desirable Objects by Deyan Sudjic Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co. (June 1, 2009) Hardcover: 224 pages Description...
From Putting People First