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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
Sun Compute Cluster part of new Rapid Solutions
Sun announced last week a new services offering tied to its hardware and designed to help customers get their installation done faster. Mostly this is done by pre...
From insideHPC
New computer memory possible with good old-fashioned pencil
Scientists at Rice have found a way to create a new kind of memory from a strip of graphene, the stuff that in bulk is called graphite, and drives No 2 pencils...
From CSDiary
Merry Christmas!
The semester is over, but there is still enough work to do on various proposals, recommendation letters, and think pieces that I am in my office instead of at home...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Seeing 1859 Stereo
I enjoy discussions linking the history of a technology to its current state. This article looks at the stereographic technology of 1859 and how it relates to"...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Behind the Way We Shop
National Public Radio (NPR) audio recording on Buyology/Neuromarketing: The Buyology Behind the Way We Shop
From Wild WebMink
Open Source Maturity
There's an interesting comment from 451 Group's Matthew Aslett on the five stages of community open source engagement that's worth reading. I've been using a model...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Generating Power in Clothing
From Zhong Lin Wang's lab:Nano generator that can be grown over fibers.Generates energy by human movements.Ottilia Saxl, chief executive of the Institute of Nanotechnology...
From insideHPC
UCAR Releases VAPOR
UCAR has announced the latest release of the Visualization and Analysis Platform, or VAPOR application.
From insideHPC
CIBC Winter Workshop
Through the SCIRUN-USERS mailing list, Rob MacLeod announced the 2008/2009 Center for Integrative Biomedical Computing [CIBC] Winter Workshop: Boston Edition.
From Putting People First
Watch the video - Mobile Banking for Poor People: Pioneer Perspectives
Last week, the World Bank’s CGAP hosted a roundtable and webinar on the important topic of how mobile phone banking can deliver a range of financial services to...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Blowing into your Cell Phone
There have been a number of keyboard instruments for the IP, so when I first read of a wind instrument app I thought ... how would that work? There is an Ocarina...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Parsing CSV files is CPU bound: a C++ test case (Update 2)
I am continuing my fun saga to determine whether parsing CSV files is CPU bound or I/O bound. Recall that I posted some C++ code and reported that it took 96 seconds...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Image Search
Via Google Blogoscoped I see that Google Image search now has some new advanced options which lets you search for just clip art or line drawings. Also previously...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
Computing Research Initiatives for the 21st Century
Today’s main message is: Check out http://www.cra.org/ccc/initiatives. Please! And tell your friends and colleagues! (Any reactions or suggestions can be posted...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Parsing CSV files is CPU bound: a C++ test case (Update 1)
(See update 2.) In a recent blog post, I said that parsing simple CSV files could be CPU bound. By parsing, I mean reading the data on disk and copying it into...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
ACM Urges Obama To Include Computer Science As A Core Component Of Science And Math Education
Yesterday President-Elect Obama announced his intention to nominate Arne Duncan for the Secretary of Education. Mr. Duncan is currently CEO of Chicago's school...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Fast argmax in Python
In my post Computing argmax fast in Python, I reported that Python has no builtin function to compute argmax, the position of a maximal value. I provided one such...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
The Synthese Recommender System
Andre Vellino has just opened his Synthese Recommender System: a recommender for journal articles. Andre works for one of the largest scientific libraries in the...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog