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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
SiCortex science to science
SiCortex announced this week that it is beginning a webinar series to highlight the ways in which HPC is used in science…on SiCortex gear, one presumes. In each...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Ada Lovelace DayGuest Blogger: Barbara Boucher Owens, USA
Ada Lovelace Day is March 24, 2009. A movement to promote female role models in technology is underfoot and you can help. But first some background, most of which...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Kindle on the IPhone
I have mentioned here several times that I was not willing to drag around yet another device and so was not interested in buying a Kindle. I have tried a number...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Designing the User Interface
A good review, which describes what is new in the book: Designing the User Interface, 5th Edition by Ben Shneiderman and Catherine Plaisant. I have a much earlier...
From The Eponymous Pickle
ConAgra Looks at Store Marketing
An interview with ConAgra on in-store marketing.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Institute for Large Scale Innovation
Just founded by John Kao and Deloitte, of interest:The Institute for Large Scale Innovation (ILSI) is a non-profit organization founded to address three key questions...
From insideHPC
Rocks-A-Palooza
The Rocks cluster toolkit developers have announced the fourth annual Rocks-A-Palooza.
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
On academic branding
Good communication is part of our jobs as researchers. And communicating well, in 2009, means having an effective web presence. When I read someone’s paper, and...
From insideHPC
120 more employees laid off at
Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Register is reporting today that another 9% of SGI’s workforce has been laid off Supercomputer maker Silicon Graphics has let go...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Caromatherapy
The Whiff Guys, sensory specialists, report on caromatheraphy experimentation by Mercedes-Benz. Read it as car-aromatherapy. Admittedly only in the luxury limotheir...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sites that Excerpt: Legal?
Excerpts from the NYTimes like the one below from the article: Copyright Challenge for Sites That Excerpt, are coming under fire. It is true that most of the challenges...
From insideHPC
Cray Forms Indian
Cray has announced a new wholly owned subsidiary in India. The senior management at Cray has felt for some time that the company needed to expand its footprint...
From insideHPC
NCAR Bill Signed by
Governor Dave Freudenthal of Wyoming has signed a bill into law that removes a potential bureaucratic bump in building the new National Center for Atmospheric Research...
From The Eponymous Pickle
The Pscyh Angle of the Netflix Prize
The Netflix prize is a well known example of pattern recognition from a large database. $1,000,000 to anyone that can improve Netflix's movie rating system by at...
From Putting People First
Design thinking for the future at LIFT09
The session devoted to Design Thinking was my personal favourite of the entire 2009 LIFT conference. Beyond the engineers and business’ discourse about the future...
From Springenwerk Blog
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5 Regular Expressions Every Web Programmer Should Know - I’m Mike
From Putting People First
March-April issue of Interactions Magazine devoted to trust
More and more content of Interactions Magazine is becoming available online. The latest March-April issue is devoted to trust and “explores the idea of assurance...
From Putting People First
Consumers in a downturn: a new spending habit? (part 1)
The business channel of The Atlantic Online published this weekend the first of two articles by Grant McCracken on the implications of the recession on consumer...
From Putting People First
Industry trends in prototyping
Get an overview of the thought process and common strategies for generating prototypes from Dave Cronin, Director of Interaction Design at Cooper. Although applied...
From Putting People First