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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 Eponymous Pickle
Intuit on Small Business Innovation
Steve King outlines the Intuit Future of Small Business report and points to a just released research brief on innovation in small business. If you run one or"...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Culinary Innovation Center
Interesting work by Wegmans. Has some connections to other innovation center work. There is lots of interest in North America about innovative food preparation...
From insideHPC
More on scientific clouds from Dan
As I mentioned last week, I recently did an article for HPCwire with a Q&A with Dan Reed from Microsoft about his CCF team and the intersection of clouds and HPC...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Gardening and research
I love gardening. I love research. These activities are analogous: Gardening Research Biodiversity minimizes the impact of diseases and pests. A multidisciplinary...
From insideHPC
An actual HPC blog conversation, more on the OpenMP debate with
Now, this is the sort of thing that happens in other communities all the time (the Mac community for example, where I used to spend some free time reading — now...
From insideHPC
Penguin launches new workgroup-sized
Last week Penguin Computing announced they had launched two new workgroup-size clusters. First up, a 16 TFLOPS Tesla-based system Penguin is now offering an Altus...
From insideHPC
Sun gears up to try utility cloud again using somebody else
Timothy Prickett Morgan reported at Channel Register on Friday that Sun is evidently gearing up to make a third run at selling cloud computing cycles to customers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Smart Phone GPS
Have been experimenting with a number of walk tracking methods on my IPhone. There are many pedometer style applications, which work fine but need calibration....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Borders Backing from E-Commerce
In StorefrontBacktalk: Borders was originally trying to cleverly integrate online and bricks. Though that did not draw me there. Now they are pulling back, likely...
From insideHPC
SDSC Hosts Two Workshops on Bridging HPC and
The San Diego Supercomputer Center [SDSC] has announced that it will host two, 2-Day workshops designed to help begin to bridge the gap between high performance...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
A Symposium on
Ed Lazowska and Peter Lee on November 4 proposed a brainstorming exercise to identify about a dozen game-changing advances in computing research over the past 20...
From insideHPC
Are you an HPC vendor with an academic
The response to the couple of recent posts I’ve done about academic freebies and specials has been great. So I thought I would gather them up and list them in an...
From Wild WebMink
Saturday Link Roundup on March 14th
THRU YOU - Kutiman mixes YouTube This is jaw-droppingly awesome. And impossible to achieve legally without Creative Commons everywhere.Plucky Brits win battle of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Working Habitats : Office Evolution
Herman Miller, the creator of the widely praised, iconic Aeron chair, was one of the collaborators with our early innovation center projects. We tested officethey...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Web is 20
Hurrah Berners-Lee! Web celebrates 20th anniversaryAnalyst: A single paper written 20 years ago today became a great 20th-century idea.
From Putting People First
NESTA launches innovation lab to improve UK public services
NESTA, the UK’s National Endowment for Science, Technology, and the Arts, has set up The Lab, a new UK innovation structure that will bring together all the players...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Beyond Minority Report Interfaces: Sixth Sense
Very interesting TED talk presentation on gesture driven wearable devices by Pattie Maes. What I found particularly interesting is the inclusion of a projector...
From insideHPC
HPC and cloud computing,
I don’t usually link to my own stuff, but you may find this interesting. I just finished an article/Q&A with Dan Reed, longtime HPC’er, science and computation...
From insideHPC