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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 Apophenia
What are your information needs? (Knight Commission seeks feedback)
What information do Americans need to accomplish the personal goals and to be effective citizens in our democracy? How are they getting their news and information...
From insideHPC
NASA Ames moves from Sun to SpectraLogic, cuts silos by
Found at Computerworld.com NASA’s Ames Research Center, announced today that it has consolidated its tape libraries from 10 silos to two, allowing it to reclaim...
From insideHPC
NVIDIA releases OpenCL driver for early access
Yesterday NVIDIA announced the release of an OpenCL driver and SDK for developers in its early access program (we’ve covered OpenCL before in lots of places; here...
From The Noisy Channel
Google: News Timeline
The other day, when I was blogging about Google’s news cluster timelines, I lamented their lack of a unified approach towards visualizing news over time. Their...
From The Noisy Channel
Google: News Timeline
The other day, when I was blogging about Google’s news cluster timelines, I lamented their lack of a unified approach towards visualizing news over time. Their...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Similar Image Search
Google image search now lets you find images that are similar to those brought up in a search. You can't load up an image and use it as a prototype to find similar...
From The Noisy Channel
Google: Find Similar Images
I spend a fair amount of time critizing Google for not embracing exploratory search. But today’s launch of a similar images feature is all about exploration, and...
From The Noisy Channel
Google: Find Similar Images
I spend a fair amount of time critizing Google for not embracing exploratory search. But today’s launch of a similar images feature is all about exploration, and...
From insideHPC
Oracle/Sun deal FAQ: Hardware, MySQL, yes. HPC, Vis, Lustre? Who
The FAQ [PDF] on Oracle’s Sun acquisition page has corporate answers to some of the questions we’ve been debating in email today. I’ll pull out a few; recommend...
From The Noisy Channel
Sorry About The Typos!
I discovered belatedly that the Microsoft Word template my publisher had given me was suppressing spelling correction. My bad, I should have realized something...
From The Noisy Channel
Sorry About The Typos!
I discovered belatedly that the Microsoft Word template my publisher had given me was suppressing spelling correction. My bad, I should have realized something...
From Apophenia
RIP Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Sciences (PGSS)
I have been quite fortunate over the years. I have received numerous opportunities that afforded me opportunities to go far and do amazing things. One such opportunity...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Non-Normal Thinking
Herb Sorensen on Seafood shopping and non-normal thinking. This odd congruence is yet another example of why you should never accept normal distributions as an...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of April 20
April 23 Hearing: The Communications, Technology and the Internet Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee will hold a hearing on recent developments...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Dominos PR Crisis
AdAge overviews the YouTube PR Crisis at Domino's Pizza. What they did right and wrong, with comparisons to other previous PR emergency cases. Though the case...
From insideHPC
Oracle in
News out today that IBM is out and Oracle is in at Sun. From a story at CNNMoney.com Business software maker Oracle Corp. said Monday it has entered into a definitive...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fast Business Intelligence
Good overview piece on players loading and delivering BI intelligence data. I have been exploring related approaches for virtual retail spaces lately.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Programmable Tattoos
A report in Slashdot on under skin displays, with a somewhat similar idea of tattoos that can act as displays. A bit reminiscent of injectable RFID tags, which...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog