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NPS Supercomputer
From insideHPC

NPS Supercomputer

From the desk of Richard Hickey: I had the pleasure of attending the dedication for the new HPC at the Naval Postgraduate school today. NPS High Performance Computing...

Product Placement and Memory
From The Eponymous Pickle

Product Placement and Memory

Can a product placement delete your product from a consumer's memory? Martin Lindstrom video.

35 Picnic conference videos
From Putting People First

35 Picnic conference videos

On Vimeo you can find no less than 35 videos of the Picnic conference. They are great. My personal favourites (quite a few): Jim Stolze: The virtual happiness project...

Dopplr designer Matt Jones on bionic noticing
From Putting People First

Dopplr designer Matt Jones on bionic noticing

Reporting on PSFK’s Good Ideas Salon yesterday in London, Guardian writer Jemima Kiss highlights the presentation by Dopplr designer Matt Jones: He sees mobile...

W3C workshop on the future of social networking
From Putting People First

W3C workshop on the future of social networking

A few weeks ago, W3C, the body in charge of global web standards directed by Tim Berners-Lee, organised a Workshop on the Future of Social Networking in Barcelona...

Kiss Me in 3D
From The Eponymous Pickle

Kiss Me in 3D

The huge startup of 3D media has begun. I picked up a strip of Intel 3-D glasses at the grocery store today, in front of a beer display. Just because they are...

Best Buy's CMO on Social Technology
From The Eponymous Pickle

Best Buy's CMO on Social Technology

Best Buy's CMO, Barry Judge, on video about how they plan to use social technologies. Also his personal site. And his Twitter feed.

Universities and the recession
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Universities and the recession

Andre Vellino pointed me to this article: Will the recession affect higher education? Short answer: yes. Interesting bites: If you think education has historically...

Unsecured Economies, and Overly-secured Reports
From CERIAS Blog

Unsecured Economies, and Overly-secured Reports

The Report Over the last few months, CERIAS faculty members Jackie Rees and Karthik Kannan have been busy analyzing data collected from IT executives around the...

How to ask for a scholarship
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

How to ask for a scholarship

I have had some experience reviewing scholarship requests from graduate students. Here are a few pointers: For God sake! Know why you are going to graduate school...

Upcoming: NeuroConnections in Cracow
From The Eponymous Pickle

Upcoming: NeuroConnections in Cracow

Site and blog: Neuro connections. Next week I am off to the Neuroconnections conference in Cracow, Poland. Will cover aspects of neuromarketing and beyond. I...

Human Side to Software Engineering
From The Eponymous Pickle

Human Side to Software Engineering

A Human side to software engineering?

Download Rocks for Solaris10
From insideHPC

Download Rocks for Solaris10

InsideHPC broke the news last October that the Rocks Cluster Toolkit guys were working on a port to the Solaris10 platform.

Intel to discuss eight core Xeon at
From insideHPC

Intel to discuss eight core Xeon at

Multicoreinfo.com points us to the folks at Macworld, who did a little digging in the International Solid-State Circuits Conference program, and finds news thatIntel...

Easy Word Clouds
From The Eponymous Pickle

Easy Word Clouds

Wordle is a free online system by Jonathan Feinberg that lets you generate word clouds from text sources. The cloud above is one generated from recent posts to...

Cooling CPUs with
From insideHPC

Cooling CPUs with

Multicoreinfo.com points us to a Computerworld piece on nano-fridges for cooling your chips With heat sinks and fans not up to the task of cooling the 100-degree...

Sun CEO says Rock on track for this
From insideHPC

Sun CEO says Rock on track for this

Timothy Prickett Morgan at The Register reports this week on news that Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz is (publicly) confident that the company’s new Rock processor will...

QLogic announces Q3, posts
From insideHPC

QLogic announces Q3, posts

And speaking of vendors and quarterly announcements, QLogic announced this week. Highlights from their release Third Quarter Highlights Net revenue increased 4...

Serious Games
From The Eponymous Pickle

Serious Games

A toolkit for serious games.

Mellanox announces Q4 and FY2008, posts
From insideHPC

Mellanox announces Q4 and FY2008, posts

InfiniBand vendor Mellanox announced its Q4 and 2008 annual results this week. Their press release provides a handy list so that yours truly doesn’t have to do...
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