From Schneier on Security
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration
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B. Schneier| February 29, 2024
I’ve long been proponent of transparency in search engines and recommendation systems, on the grounds that transparency cultivates trust even in the face of the...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | April 13, 2009 at 03:26 PM
I’ve long been proponent of transparency in search engines and recommendation systems, on the grounds that transparency cultivates trust even in the face of the...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | April 13, 2009 at 03:26 PM
Inspired by the text timeline that Siliconvalley.com (a publication of the Mercury News) put out on 01 April, I’ve created a graphical timeline of the rise and...John West From insideHPC | April 13, 2009 at 03:23 PM
Compliance in pharma is about determining if people take their medications according to schedule. Efforts like the 'smart' medicine cabinet have been demonstrated...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | April 13, 2009 at 03:22 PM
Matteo Frigo of CilkArts has posted a very detailed account of why certain idiosyncrasies exist in the Cilk language constructs as well as its C++ parent. For those...John Leidel From insideHPC | April 13, 2009 at 02:35 PM
The University of Michigan Center for Arrythmia Research is has announced their use of a SiCortex machine dedicated to the study of heart arrhythmia.John Leidel From insideHPC | April 13, 2009 at 01:53 PM
Good overview of what Unilever is doing in logistics, in Consumer Goods Technology. Nothing very surpirsing here, covers their work with BravoSolution. " ... The...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | April 13, 2009 at 01:44 PM
Addison Snell, now of Tabor Research, but once of SGI, remembers his time at SGI and offers his view of what went wrong:
Do you know what the saddest part is of...John West From insideHPC | April 13, 2009 at 01:43 PM
My latest features are up at HPCwire. In “Mathematica takes on parallelism” I discuss last November’s announcement of Mathematica 7, and how it bakes parallelism...John West From insideHPC | April 13, 2009 at 01:31 PM
The Yahoo! M45 project (also part of the Open Cirrus cloud effort funded by Yahoo!, HP, and Intel and hosted at facilities around the world) just took a pretty...John West From insideHPC | April 13, 2009 at 01:28 PM
Statebook
Excellent visualisation of what the government will do with all the data that's being gathered for various reasons. It's not the individual feeds that...webmink From Wild WebMink | April 13, 2009 at 12:52 PM
In March of last year I began writing about an IBM research effort to develop a new hardware and software architecture for ingesting and analysing large scale streams...John West From insideHPC | April 13, 2009 at 12:20 PM
NCSA is announcing a mentoring workshop to be held alongside their upcoming accelerator symposium
A FREE mentoring workshop for undergraduate and graduate students...John West From insideHPC | April 13, 2009 at 11:30 AM
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...John West From insideHPC | April 13, 2009 at 10:24 AM
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...John West From insideHPC | April 13, 2009 at 09:16 AM
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...Experientia From Putting People First | April 13, 2009 at 07:01 AM
The WRF development team [through the WRF mailing list] has announced the release of the Weather Research Forecast code version 3.1.John Leidel From insideHPC | April 13, 2009 at 02:25 AM
Interesting piece that looks at the implications of collaboration. In the enterprise this is an increasing issue, especially when people are only distantly connected...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | April 12, 2009 at 11:44 PM
After nearly a year’s delay, the National Center for Atmospheric Research’s proposed supercomputing facility project in Cheyenne, Wyoming is moving forward.John Leidel From insideHPC | April 12, 2009 at 08:00 PM
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...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | April 12, 2009 at 03:03 PM