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
The New York Times Magazine on the service design concept behind car sharing:
“Car sharing, is a pay-per-use system, which has the effect of significantly altering...Experientia From Putting People First | March 8, 2009 at 02:56 PM
B-Live Share and Groove Armada
Clever viral marketing campaign rewards you with free music if you recruit your friends to Bacardi's marketing site. Yes, that link...webmink From Wild WebMink | March 8, 2009 at 10:37 AM
Just a reminder to everyone I have calls with that Summer Time (Daylight Savings) starts in Europe on the last Sunday of March and not today like it did in the...webmink From Wild WebMink | March 8, 2009 at 10:16 AM
Intriguing site: Visual Think Map. A nice set of examples of information design. " ... Exploring creative innovative modes of visual communication of information...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | March 8, 2009 at 06:34 AM
Good short piece in the NYT Business section on increasing use of cable company ad targeting. This is likely to continue to expand.Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | March 7, 2009 at 03:50 PM
More word of targeted media using a system we originally helped design and test. Here in Progressive Grocer. These systems are usually installed first for shopper...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | March 7, 2009 at 03:03 PM
Found at Multicoreinfo.com, a pointer to the first in a two-part series on designs principles that will lead to multicore- and cloud-ready applications
Multicore...John West From insideHPC | March 7, 2009 at 02:08 PM
This week Intel chairman Craig Barrett announced that Intel is beginning a 5 year collaboration in France for the construction of a new academic research facility...John West From insideHPC | March 7, 2009 at 02:02 PM
From insideHPC
I actually like that better than “green computing” — it’s sounds less like hype and more like someone is actuallly doing something.
The someone in this case is...John West From insideHPC | March 7, 2009 at 01:52 PM
From a recent blog post by Michael Feldman at HPCwire
“I think some time down the road it makes sense to take the same level of integration that we’ve done with...John West From insideHPC | March 7, 2009 at 01:40 PM
Peter Harsha over at the CRA’s Policy Blog has a detailed summary on science funding in the budget omnibus including funding for the agencies that traditionally...John West From insideHPC | March 7, 2009 at 01:33 PM
Found at Cheer HPC, news that alongside the new Earth Simulator 2, Japan has put another super into operation. This one is a 77 TFLOPS Hitachi SR16000 system for...John West From insideHPC | March 7, 2009 at 01:25 PM
Interesting piece, though it is not saying that the physical aspects of the robots are evolving, only the algorithms that drive them. When a robot starts to be...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | March 7, 2009 at 02:31 AM
From Knowledge@Wharton, a good essay on the power of being sorry for unforseen circumstances. Early on in my enterprise career I was told that I used 'sorry about...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | March 6, 2009 at 06:22 PM
Eponymous means, of course, something that is named after something else, usually a proper noun or person's name. I have explained this a number of times. Not...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | March 6, 2009 at 06:17 PM
More than likely you wouldn't be reading this blog if you didn't feel passionately that computer science is an essential discipline in our high schools. Certainly... From Computer Science Teachers Association | March 6, 2009 at 05:38 PM
Expanding Horizons is a quarterly publication aimed at ICT decision-makers in the private and public sectors.
It explores the socio-economic benefits that mobile...Experientia From Putting People First | March 6, 2009 at 04:49 PM
Mozilla and CyberMentors
"The Internet is full of bullies, not predators" - This looks like a great way to do something practical to protect young people on the...webmink From Wild WebMink | March 6, 2009 at 03:45 PM
Alexa Andrzejewski of Adaptive Path reflects on the user experience of money:
For anyone designing for consumer finance Experientia From Putting People First | March 6, 2009 at 11:52 AM
Whenever I'm in a public space where folks are blabbing away on their phones, I want to scream. Trains, cafes, busses... they all drive me batty. I'm dreading the...zephoria From Apophenia | March 6, 2009 at 05:46 AM