Communications of the ACM
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April 2009
From The Eponymous Pickle
Emotional Cartography Resource
Michael W Cristiani passes this along, just now examining.Emotional Cartography: Implications of Visualizing Intimate Biometric Data" ... The (44MB freely downloadable) book Emotional Cartography - Technologies of the Self [emotionalcartography…
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Obama Administration Appoints a Chief Technology Officer
One of the Administration's campaign promises was to create the position of Chief Technology Officer. While the specific job description was vague during the campaign, the general idea was for this office to encourage more effective…
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
After leading the world in telecommunications research innovations, the United States now trails several dozen other nations in the availability of broadband to consumers.
From insideHPC
Cray, Fernbach, and Kennedy award nominations due July
Dan Reed has a post on his blog today about the upcoming due dates for HPC’s Nobel Prizes, the Cray and Fernbach awards, plus a brand new one named in honor of Ken Kennedy. This year, I have the honor and privilege to chair the…
From insideHPC
Molecular model of brain yields first
From the BBC, news of work presented at the European Future Technologies meeting in Prague on “Blue Brain,” a research effort started in 2005 to reverse engineer mammalian brains from laboratory data While many computer simulations…
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Organizing Internationally
CSTA's membership continues to grow, and as it does, we strive to find better ways to serve all of our members no matter where they happen to live.
At present, about 13% of CSTA's members live in countries other than the United…From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM Takes on Jeopardy
In the NY Times, the technology section : ' ... I.B.M. plans to announce Monday that it is in the final stages of completing a computer program to compete against human
From The Eponymous Pickle
Consumer Machine Vision
Sammy Haroon, former astute enterprise colleague, writes about work in understanding consumers in real time using machine vision and some of his experiences. A favorite topic of mine as well.
From insideHPC
Cilk++ Multicore
The folks at CilkArts have announced that they will hold a two day course on programming in a multicore environment with Cilk++.
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-04-27
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of April 27
April 28
Hearing: The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee will hold a hearing on cybersecurity. 10 a.m., 342 Dirksen Building
The Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services…From insideHPC
Inside HPC publishing, and the week in
Latest features are up at HPCwire. In my Q&A with Randi Cohen, the Computer Science Acquisitions editor at CRC Press, I pepper her with questions about what she does, and try to get to the bottom of how her company approaches…
From insideHPC
BlueGene to compete on
Found at the NY Times, courtesy of the Computing Research Policy TumbleLog, an article about IBM’s research efforts to develop an application for its BlueGene platform that will let the computer compete with human contestants…
From insideHPC
Cloud computing
Joe Landman comments at his blog about one of the problems with cloud computing at the high end: data in motion. He references a news release at HPCwire from a team using Google’s CluE for computational genomics work We don
From insideHPC
Six years of
From Nigel Dessau’s blog at AMD (he’s the chief marketeer), word of AMD’s 6th birthday (that’s 42 in dog years), and its most recently announced processor tweaks Today, we face a dramatically changed landscape of
From insideHPC
Al Gore to keynote SC09: an exclusive interview with SC09 chair Wilf
SC09, the HPC community’s largest technical conference, trade show, and annual homecoming, has announced that Al Gore (yes, the Nobel Prize winning, Academy Award winning, US Vice President-ing, Albert A. Gore, Jr.) will keynote…
From The Noisy Channel
Who Wants To Play
That would be IBM Research, for millions of dollars (I suspect). I’ve known about the Jeopardy project for a while from colleagues at IBM, and I’m glad I can finally talk about it publicly, now that it’s been reported in the…
From The Noisy Channel
Who Wants To Play
That would be IBM Research, for millions of dollars (I suspect). I’ve known about the Jeopardy project for a while from colleagues at IBM, and I’m glad I can finally talk about it publicly, now that it’s been reported in the…
From The Eponymous Pickle
New Business Intelligence
Tom Davenport on what he calls the new Business Intelligence. He studied Procter's analytical capabilities among a number of other companies. Pretty good though I have some disagreements with the details." ... organizations…
From Putting People First
Vodafone
After a short hiatus, Vodafone’s Receiver Magazine is updated again with a series of articles under the heading “Seizing the Moment”. The first one in the series is by mobile apps thought-leader Paul Golding, who talks about…
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-04-26
If you've never looked at this news visualisation application before, and you are the sort of person who checks pages like news.google.com and news.bbc.co.uk regularly, this is a must-try…
From Putting People First
Co-creation
Fronteer Strategy, an Amsterdam-based management strategy consulting firm, has published a short (6-page) paper on co-creation, in which they argue that there are four types of co-creation and five guiding principles to any successful…
From Putting People First
For months now, I have been running with this simple thesis in my head: “We are all hackers now”, and again, again and again I notice it getting confirmed. The latest confirmation comes from The Institute for the Future, which…
From Putting People First
Design Fiction, an Interactions Magazine cover story by Bruce Sterling
As a contributing editor for Interactions Magazine, I am tasked with finding clever people to write a story for the magazine. My first choice was Bruce Sterling. He accepted and wrote a wonderful contribution — much appreciated…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Sears IPhone Application
I downloaded the Sear2Go application for the IPhone and played with it. Fairly basic interface that worked well on WiFi. Was able to browse deals, coupons and see reviews of items. Since Sears has lots of private labels (Kenmore…
From Putting People First
Africa Gathering in London
Today was the Africa Gathering in London and ICT4D, an Austrian NGO dealing with ICT for development, has done an excellent job at summarising them: Summaries 1 David Hollow - ICT4D Collective / RHUL * The $100 laptop in…
From Putting People First
Keeping it real: Interaction in the real world
The latest issue of Interfaces Magazine, a quarterly magazine published by Interaction, the specialist HCI group of the British Computer Society (BCS), is all devoted to interaction in the real world. Table of contents
From Putting People First
European Commission launches public consultation on design as a driver of user-centred innovation
Yesterday, the European Commission launched a public consultation on design and innovation on the basis of a recent Commission staff working document on “Design as a driver of user-centred innovation“. The aim of the public consultation…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Moral Instinct and Norman Borlaug
I was pointed to an item in the NYT by Steven Pinker on Moral instinct which points to Norman Borlaug. Name sounded familiar but did not register. The article positions him well and talks about all sorts of issues of morality…
From The Eponymous Pickle
BrandImage Shines
An interesting design project which also includes olfactory presence and design by Brandimage