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Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration
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The University of Houston Research Computing Center [RCC] in collaboration with the Texas Learning and Computation Center [TLC2] recently purchased and installed...John Leidel From insideHPC | December 22, 2008 at 01:55 PM
Twitter user erincollopy points us to this article at hpcprojects.com (a subsite of Scientific Computing World) on the greening of HPC
HPC suppliers are addressing...John West From insideHPC | December 22, 2008 at 01:54 PM
Last week Rackable announced a new “data center enclosure” for your gear. You can slot in either AMD or Intel servers, but they’ll have to be Rackable’s, since...John West From insideHPC | December 22, 2008 at 01:42 PM
Sun announced last week a new services offering tied to its hardware and designed to help customers get their installation done faster. Mostly this is done by pre...John West From insideHPC | December 22, 2008 at 01:28 PM
Scientists at Rice have found a way to create a new kind of memory from a strip of graphene, the stuff that in bulk is called graphite, and drives No 2 pencils...John West From insideHPC | December 22, 2008 at 01:16 PM
The semester is over, but there is still enough work to do on various proposals, recommendation letters, and think pieces that I am in my office instead of at home...Peter Lee From CSDiary | December 21, 2008 at 11:09 PM
I enjoy discussions linking the history of a technology to its current state. This article looks at the stereographic technology of 1859 and how it relates to"...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | December 21, 2008 at 08:00 PM
National Public Radio (NPR) audio recording on Buyology/Neuromarketing: The Buyology Behind the Way We ShopFranz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | December 21, 2008 at 06:13 PM
There's an interesting comment from 451 Group's Matthew Aslett on the five stages of community open source engagement that's worth reading. I've been using a model...webmink From Wild WebMink | December 21, 2008 at 01:29 PM
From Zhong Lin Wang's lab:Nano generator that can be grown over fibers.Generates energy by human movements.Ottilia Saxl, chief executive of the Institute of Nanotechnology...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | December 20, 2008 at 06:42 PM
UCAR has announced the latest release of the Visualization and Analysis Platform, or VAPOR application.John Leidel From insideHPC | December 20, 2008 at 03:16 PM
Through the SCIRUN-USERS mailing list, Rob MacLeod announced the 2008/2009 Center for Integrative Biomedical Computing [CIBC] Winter Workshop: Boston Edition.John Leidel From insideHPC | December 20, 2008 at 03:08 PM
Last week, the World Bank’s CGAP hosted a roundtable and webinar on the important topic of how mobile phone banking can deliver a range of financial services to...Experientia From Putting People First | December 20, 2008 at 06:49 AM
There have been a number of keyboard instruments for the IP, so when I first read of a wind instrument app I thought ... how would that work? There is an Ocarina...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | December 20, 2008 at 05:56 AM
I am continuing my fun saga to determine whether parsing CSV files is CPU bound or I/O bound. Recall that I posted some C++ code and reported that it took 96 seconds... From Daniel Lemire's Blog | December 20, 2008 at 04:56 AM
Via Google Blogoscoped I see that Google Image search now has some new advanced options which lets you search for just clip art or line drawings. Also previously...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | December 20, 2008 at 03:14 AM
Today’s main message is: Check out http://www.cra.org/ccc/initiatives. Please! And tell your friends and colleagues! (Any reactions or suggestions can be posted...Peter Lee From The Computing Community Consortium Blog | December 19, 2008 at 08:23 PM
(See update 2.)
In a recent blog post, I said that parsing simple CSV files could be CPU bound. By parsing, I mean reading the data on disk and copying it into... From Daniel Lemire's Blog | December 19, 2008 at 05:23 AM
Yesterday President-Elect Obama announced his intention to nominate Arne Duncan for the Secretary of Education. Mr. Duncan is currently CEO of Chicago's school... From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM | December 18, 2008 at 12:00 AM
In my post Computing argmax fast in Python, I reported that Python has no builtin function to compute argmax, the position of a maximal value. I provided one such... From Daniel Lemire's Blog | December 17, 2008 at 01:48 PM