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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 The Noisy Channel
Too Connected, Or Not Connected Enough?
A bit off my usual selection of topics, but an article by Bruce Perens about a cyber-attack on Morgan Hill, a small city in northern California caught my attention...
From The Noisy Channel
Too Connected, Or Not Connected Enough?
A bit off my usual selection of topics, but an article by Bruce Perens about a cyber-attack on Morgan Hill, a small city in northern California caught my attention...
From Putting People First
What on Earth are Anthropologists Doing Playing With Mobile Phones?
What on earth are anthropologists doing playing with mobile phones, asks Ken Banks, founder of kiwanja.net and creator of FrontlineSMS. “It’s widely recognised...
From The Eponymous Pickle
GS1 DataBar
The GS1 DataBar (formerly RSS, Reduced Space Symbology) is a form of barcode, approved and promoted by the GS1 standards body which contains more data space and...
From insideHPC
SiCortex Honors Earth Day With Special
In honor of Earth Day, SiCortex has announced an interesting and unusual offer to those interested in purchasing new systems.
From insideHPC
Panasas Announces New Product
Panasas has announced a new, broader product line of storage products.
From insideHPC
Glimpses of AMD
AMD, today, released a press statement delivering some tidbits of tasty info on the next three years of core silicon coming out of Sunnyvale.
From CSDiary
Are There 20 Top-10 CS Departments?
I’m on board a Delta flight bound for Pittsburgh right now. My curiosity got the best of me and so I plunked down some money (too much, really) to try out the airline’s...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Nature of Private Label Gains
This piece suggests that they have been underway for a long time and cannot be blamed on the recession. Also useful comments. A big challenge for major label CPG...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Wal-Mart to Double Solar Power
Wal-Mart is placing solar panels on their store roofs. Great idea and very good marketing.
From The Noisy Channel
SIGIR
Thanks to Jeff Dalton for alerting me to SIGIR 2009 announcing the lists of accepted papers and posters. As Jon Elsas points out, the authorship looks quite different...
From The Noisy Channel
SIGIR
Thanks to Jeff Dalton for alerting me to SIGIR 2009 announcing the lists of accepted papers and posters. As Jon Elsas points out, the authorship looks quite different...
From The Noisy Channel
Google Profiles: Nice Idea, Meh Execution
The top story on Techmeme is the new push Google is making around profiles. You can get a sense of the reactions from links to the official Google post. Here is...
From The Noisy Channel
Google Profiles: Nice Idea, Meh Execution
The top story on Techmeme is the new push Google is making around profiles. You can get a sense of the reactions from links to the official Google post. Here is...
From CSDiary
CMU Places 12th in World, 3rd in North America, at ACM Programming Contest
The CMU team of Tom Conerly (CS sophomore), Celestine Lau (ECE senior), and Alan Pierce (CS sophomore) placed 12th overall, 3rd in North America, in the ACM International...
From insideHPC
Lustre User Group Keynote + Lustre Roadmap
The Sun HPC Watercooler has pointed us to the keynote presentation video from the Lustre User Group meeting in Sausalito, CA.
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Federal Trade Commission Issues Proposed Breach Notification Rule
On April 16 the Federal Trade Commission issued a proposed rule requiring entities to notify consumers in the event that the security of their electronic health...
From The Eponymous Pickle
WolframAlpha Briefing
Attended the WolframAlpha briefing today, which consisted of an overview by Steven Wolfram and his demonstration of his very ambitious interactive knowledge system...
From Apophenia
"Living and Learning with Social Media"
Over the weekend, I gave a talk at the Penn State Symposium for Teaching and Learning with Technology. I have made a crib of the talk available for anyone who might...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog