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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
There is a right way, and a wrong way, to
Dan Reed reposted an essay on his blog that recently appeared at the CACM blog in which he talks about the shortcuts (my word, not his) we took to get to petascale...
From insideHPC
Nehalem memory cheat
Doug at ClusterMonkey pointed us to a Nehalem memory cheat sheet put together for Dell’s technology wiki by Jeff Layton. The writeup looks like a pretty complete...
From Putting People First
Thinking about the future of news
The current paradigm of creating of serious news stories — through newspapers and big media — is under threat. Here is a haul of background on the matter (from...
From insideHPC
WRF Goes Version
The WRF development team [through the WRF mailing list] has announced the release of the Weather Research Forecast code version 3.1.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Collaboration Curves
Interesting piece that looks at the implications of collaboration. In the enterprise this is an increasing issue, especially when people are only distantly connected...
From insideHPC
NCAR-Wyoming: Full Steam
After nearly a year’s delay, the National Center for Atmospheric Research’s proposed supercomputing facility project in Cheyenne, Wyoming is moving forward.
From The Noisy Channel
Why Publishers Don
The raging battle between publishers–particularly the newspapers–and Google has been so overplayed lately that I’m tempted to stop blogging about it until something...
From The Noisy Channel
Why Publishers Don
The raging battle between publishers–particularly the newspapers–and Google has been so overplayed lately that I’m tempted to stop blogging about it until something...
From The Noisy Channel
Why Publishers Don
The raging battle between publishers–particularly the newspapers–and Google has been so overplayed lately that I’m tempted to stop blogging about it until something...
From Apophenia
Does money equal time? (Regarding proposed NSF funding of qualitative research)
Following a conference about qualitative methods, the National Science Foundation issued a report that provided "general guidance for developing qualitative research...
From Apophenia
discussion of "impact" at the CHI conference
Yesterday, I attended the CHI conference (an ACM conference for those studying and working in the area of human-computer interaction). I had the privilege of speaking...
From Wild WebMink
Lump of Links for April 11
The JRE Class White List - Google App Engine Whether you agree with Sun policing it or not, Java compatibility has served us all very well for over a decade. That...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Paper Uses 2D Barcode
New use of 2-D Barcodes in newspapers. A good idea. Newspapers have included URLs for a long time now, though I have also seen a reluctance to provide them this...
From The Noisy Channel
What Goes With Wine? Facets, Of Course!
Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal features an article about “What’s Wrong With Wine on the Web“. While it mostly complains about problems with online wine shops,...
From The Noisy Channel
What Goes With Wine? Facets, Of Course!
Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal features an article about “What’s Wrong With Wine on the Web“. While it mostly complains about problems with online wine shops,...
From The Noisy Channel
What Goes With Wine? Facets, Of Course!
Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal features an article about “What’s Wrong With Wine on the Web“. While it mostly complains about problems with online wine shops,...
From Putting People First
LIFT France and I Realize Italy
Last month I announced that the next LIFT conference would take place in Marseilles, France on 18-20 June this year. Entrepreneurs, researchers, artists, designers...
From Putting People First
Africa perspective on the role of mobile technologies in fostering social and economic development
Last week, the W3C Mobile Web Initiative organised a workshop on the “Africa Perspective on the Role of Mobile Technologies in Fostering Social Development” in...
From The Noisy Channel