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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 Noisy Channel
Announcing HCIR
I am proud to announce that HCIR 2009, the third Annual Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval, will take place at the Catholic University...
From The Noisy Channel
Announcing HCIR
I am proud to announce that HCIR 2009, the third Annual Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval, will take place at the Catholic University...
From The Noisy Channel
Great Blogging Tips from SEOmoz
I know that a number of you here are bloggers and trying to earn greater visibility for your blogs. I suggest you check out the “21 Tips to Earn Links and Tweets...
From insideHPC
ISC
The International Supercomputing Conference (ISC), to be held this year in Hamburg, Germany, has issued a call for birds of a feather sessions (PDF) ISC
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Scratch Day
May 16, 2009 is Scratch day! This is an international celebration of Scratch, a software environment designed to help students create, learn, and program. Developed...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Anniversary of Internet Rules
In the NYT: How the Internet Got its Rules. Forty years ago. It should be noted that this is about the Internet, not the Web, which took another twenty yearsDarpanet...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IPhone Home Automation Applications
A list of home automation applications for the IPhone. Companies that are providing them. Again an example of what I would like, a one device world. Standards...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Learning and the Social Web: A Call for Papers
We are preparing a special issue for the
From The Eponymous Pickle
Psych of Twitter
I have blogged for years, conversed on IRC, run e-mail lists and chat groups. Twitter is the first method I have seen where there was a severe limitation of expression...
From insideHPC
Sun
Forbes has an interesting video detailing a few of the high points in Sun’s technological history.
From insideHPC
NITRD testimony before House S&T
Melissa Norr at the CRA Policy Blog gives an excellent overview of yesterday’s testimony before the House S&T committee on the NITRD Act of 2009 (which hasn’t been...
From insideHPC
Rensselaer Announces New VP of
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has announced they have named a new vice president of research.
From insideHPC
NVIDIA graduate fellowships in visual
Late last week NVIDIA announced that it is funding 10 new graduate fellowships to study the use of GPUs in computing under its 8-year old fellowship program More...
From insideHPC
TACC deploys new data intensive computing
Found at HPCwire “Corral,” a system for data-intensive computing and storage, is the newest resource to be deployed by the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC)...
From insideHPC
Intel charter member of new Consortium on Digital
Late last week energy research company New Energy Finance announced the charter members of a new organization started to develop a better understanding of what...
From insideHPC
Cilk Performance
CilkArts has just announced a new tool bundled with its Cilk++ version 1.0.2 release.
From The Eponymous Pickle
More Alpha Hints
Stephen Wolfram talks to Rudy Rucker on his upcoming Alpha release. The work has gotten lots of interest from people like myself who have had long-time interest...
From insideHPC
Week in review, Nehalem in the HPC
If you don’t regularly check in with HPCwire, my weekly features went up late last week. First up is the fast and furious weekly update, featuring the HPC profession’s...
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