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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 Putting People First
Nokia
Two new interviews on Nokia’s IdeasProject: Cheap sensors are transformative Monitor Networks CEO Chris Meyer sees tremendous possibilities in the observation and...
From insideHPC
Appro and Terascala Partner on
Appro and Terascala announced a partnership this morning to deliver Appro’s Xtreme-X and HyperGreen Blade Cluster solutions in conjunction with Terascala’s MTS...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Modeling and SImulation
David E.Goldberg passes along a slideshow describing an interdisciplinary course on modeling and simulation at the Olin COllege of Engineering. Well done.
From insideHPC
STFC Daresbury Laboratory
More news from the UK’s Streamline Computing, this time about a new system to be installed at the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council
From insideHPC
SiCortex says Nehalem is too little, too
SiCortex is one of the few HPC vendors who doesn’t have at least one product line in the Nehalem refresh fest that marked today’s chip launch. Of course their gear...
From insideHPC
Nehalem-EP, world. World, meet
It wasn’t out when I looked before work this morning, but by the time I got home and got the laptop back out, the news was fully distributed. Intel’s Xeon 5500...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Laws of Simplicity
Reading John Maeda's 2006 book The Laws of Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business Life. Nicely done so far, and simple. I am reminded of Einstein's quote that...
From insideHPC
Silicon Graphics Supports Nehalem on ICE: Complete with
On the tails on Intel’s official release of their latest Xeon silicon, deemed Nehalem, Silicon Graphics have announced support for the new chip in their ICE cluster...
From insideHPC
According to Otellini, Sun Was Shopped
In a recent SEC filing, Intel CEO Paul Otellini made a few comments regarding the recent news that IBM has expressed interest to open their [very large] wallet...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Homeland Security Secretary Puts REAL ID on Back Burner
The new Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, indicated on Friday that there were many flaws and problems with the REAL ID law, which is intended to...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Do High School Computer Science Teachers Want a Professional Organization?
There is no doubt that High School Computer Science Teachers need a professional organization. We are often the lone voice in the wilderness, under appreciated...
From Apophenia
Seeking: Boston-based developer for prototyping work with moi
Back in the day, I used to build interactive visualizations and other tools to mark up and analyze data. My research agenda is leading me back there and so Microsoft...
From insideHPC
UPCRC Illinois Summer School for Multicore
The Universal Parallel Computing Research Center has announced a series of courses this summer designed to introduce programmers to multicore programming paradigms...
From CERIAS Blog
Symposium Summary: Distinguished Lecture
A summary written by Nabeel Mohamed. The main focus of the talk was to highlight the need for “information-centric security” over existing infrastructure centric...
From CERIAS Blog
Symposium Summary: Fireside Chat
A panel summary by Utsav Mittal. Panel Members: Eugene H. Spafford, CERIAS Ron Ritchey, IATAC John Thompson, Symantec It’s an enlightening experience to listen...
From CERIAS Blog
Symposium Summary: Security in the Cloud Panel
A panel summary by Ashish Kamra. Panel Members: Lorenzo D. Martino, College of Technology, Purdue University Keith Watson, CERIAS, Purdue University Dennis R...
From CERIAS Blog
Symposium Summary: Transitive Security & Standards Adoption Panel
A panel summary by Jason Ortiz. Panel Members: Pascal Meunier, CERIAS, Purdue University Tim Grance, NIST Shimon Modi, Biometrics Standards, Performance and...
From insideHPC
Monsters vs. Aliens: 100 Terabytes, 1,000 years of rendering, and
The boys and I saw Monsters vs. Aliens this weekend. They loved it, I enjoyed it, and I was astonished at the visual quality of what used to be the hard stuff in...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Colgate's Mini Disposable Toothbrush
Colgate continues to do very well. " ... Colgate thinks it could score with the Wisp, set to debut on Apr. 6. Several years in development, it's a disposable mini...
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