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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 Eponymous Pickle
Sticker Based Contactless
Now more than two years ago we saw presentations by vendors pushing contactless payment in smart cards and cellphones. At the time I brought up the fact thatIn...
From insideHPC
In time of turmoil, Sun ramping up HPC
Sun’s Marc Hamilton wrote on his blog last week about changes lined up for the HPC team there Later this month, we will be announcing the newest upgrades to the...
From insideHPC
Tape still greenest storage
At least according to this article at Enterprise Systems. And as interest grows in green supercomputing (at the least for minimizing the disruption of extreme power...
From insideHPC
Capturing a master node with MS HPC Cluster
Not sure if this post is too deep to be interesting to more than a few of you, but thought I’d at least point to it. If you’ve ever asked yourself “How do I capture...
From insideHPC
Sun board rejects IBM bid, just negotiation or is the whole thing
This is being reported in several places, but I like the Wired version which you can find here The merger of IBM and Sun Microsystems appears to be coming apart...
From Putting People First
Nokia
Two new interviews on Nokia’s IdeasProject: Social media may have unforeseen limits John Jordan, a pathbreaking tech consultant and academic, measures social technologies...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Modeling Financial Meltdowns
See Ken Karakotsios's work on modeling financial meltdowns. Great example of using simulation economic models while encouraging collective input:" ... This is the...
From Putting People First
The rise of the mobile divides
Rich Ling is a sociologist at the Telenor research institute and a visiting professor at the IT University of Copenhagen, who is particularly interested in understanding...
From Wild WebMink
Sunday Link Round-Up on April 5th
HADOPI Law Passed - by 12 Votes to 4 Exactly how this can be quorate and just for creating a national law that will offer private business the power to cut citizens...
From Putting People First
Designing service design principles
Nick Marsh of Engine Service Design outlines some of his experiences developing service principles: “For the purposes of this discussion, I’m assuming that principles...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Why We Share Knowledge
Good post by Nancy Dixon on why we share knowledge. Covers important implications for knowledge management and the roles of people within the enterprise. My own...
From Putting People First
Jack Carroll on the history of HCI and interaction design
Grand Old Man of HCI, Jack Carroll, explains the history of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and how the field gave birth to User Experience and Interaction Design...
From Putting People First
IT and the world
Richard Heeks reflects in the latest edition of “Communications of the ACM” on how information technology can be best applied to address problems and provide opportunities...
From Putting People First
Debunking myths about customer needs
Marketing Management is a bi-monthly strategic marketing magazine published by the American Marketing Association. The Jan-Feb issue contained a very strong piece...
From Putting People First
A post to look at and to act upon
Bruce Sterling and Jasmina Tesanovic need your help. Despite the fact that U.S. citizen Bruce Sterling and Serbian citizen Jasmina Tesanovic have been married for...
From Putting People First
Information technologies and international development
Information Technologies and International Development, a quarterly peer-reviewed journal that focuses on the intersection of information and communication technologies...
From The Eponymous Pickle
More Simple Telepresence.
I have been examining simple telepresence tools, this article points to some examples. Have not tried these yet, but will.
From CSDiary
SIGBOVIK Conference Approacheth
A quick special announcement of a conference being held on campus tomorrow: ACH SIGBOVIK 2009: April 5th, 1pm, Scaife 125 The Association for Computational Heresy...
From CSDiary
Travelogue: Reflections on the Future for Computing Researchers
OK, I admit it. During the past two weeks I got in a bit over my head, time-wise. But, I’ve gotten through it, and I’m feeling pretty satisfied with the results...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM