Communications of the ACM
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April 2009
From The Noisy Channel
Google: News Timeline
The other day, when I was blogging about Google’s news cluster timelines, I lamented their lack of a unified approach towards visualizing news over time. Their launch of Google News Timeline thus gives mixed feelings: it’s a…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Similar Image Search
Google image search now lets you find images that are similar to those brought up in a search. You can't load up an image and use it as a prototype to find similar image as far as I can see. Image analysis has been a particular…
From The Noisy Channel
Google: Find Similar Images
I spend a fair amount of time critizing Google for not embracing exploratory search. But today’s launch of a similar images feature is all about exploration, and I’m impressed with what I see. One of the applications is clarification…
From The Noisy Channel
Google: Find Similar Images
I spend a fair amount of time critizing Google for not embracing exploratory search. But today’s launch of a similar images feature is all about exploration, and I’m impressed with what I see. One of the applications is clarification…
From insideHPC
Oracle/Sun deal FAQ: Hardware, MySQL, yes. HPC, Vis, Lustre? Who
The FAQ [PDF] on Oracle’s Sun acquisition page has corporate answers to some of the questions we’ve been debating in email today. I’ll pull out a few; recommend you read the full FAQ. There’s not much in it, so it won’t take…
From The Noisy Channel
Sorry About The Typos!
I discovered belatedly that the Microsoft Word template my publisher had given me was suppressing spelling correction. My bad, I should have realized something was up as I was putting the draft together. In any case, if you are…
From The Noisy Channel
Sorry About The Typos!
I discovered belatedly that the Microsoft Word template my publisher had given me was suppressing spelling correction. My bad, I should have realized something was up as I was putting the draft together. In any case, if you are…
From Apophenia
RIP Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Sciences (PGSS)
I have been quite fortunate over the years. I have received numerous opportunities that afforded me opportunities to go far and do amazing things. One such opportunity was the Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Sciences (PGSS)…
From The Eponymous Pickle
Non-Normal Thinking
Herb Sorensen on Seafood shopping and non-normal thinking. This odd congruence is yet another example of why you should never accept normal distributions as an obvious data representation.
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Hill Tech Happenings, Week of April 20
April 23
Hearing: The Communications, Technology and the Internet Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee will hold a hearing on recent developments in communications networks and consumer privacy. 10 a.m., 2322…From The Eponymous Pickle
Dominos PR Crisis
AdAge overviews the YouTube PR Crisis at Domino's Pizza. What they did right and wrong, with comparisons to other previous PR emergency cases. Though the case is not yet closed. It is increasingly clear that companies need…
From insideHPC
Oracle in
News out today that IBM is out and Oracle is in at Sun. From a story at CNNMoney.com
Business software maker Oracle Corp. said Monday it has entered into a definitive agreement to buy server builder Sun Microsystems in a deal…From The Eponymous Pickle
Fast Business Intelligence
Good overview piece on players loading and delivering BI intelligence data. I have been exploring related approaches for virtual retail spaces lately.
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-04-20
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Editorial - The Torturers
From The Eponymous PickleProgrammable Tattoos
A report in Slashdot on under skin displays, with a somewhat similar idea of tattoos that can act as displays. A bit reminiscent of injectable RFID tags, which have been used in veterinary applications and have been approved…
From Daniel Lemire's BlogHow to initiate collaboration in science
You have read someone’s work and you have ideas about how to extend their work. You are also interested in working with them on your ideas? Or maybe you just want a copy of their latest work? Or some other favor? How do you go…
From insideHPCComputerworld wonders what the heck the DoD was
Although they put it more politely, in this article which ran on Friday at Computerworld.com. By February, Silicon Graphics Inc. was in deep trouble. It was shedding employees and continuing to loose money — yet it announced…
From insideHPCNSF awards support science with cloud
Found at HPCwire, news that NSF has awarded a series of grants to UW to support the cause of scientists using clouds for research The University of Washington has won three recent awards from the National Science Foundation related…
From Putting People FirstHow good is the mobile net experience
BBC technology reporter Maggie Shiels reflects on the quality of the mobile net experience. The article contains many quotes from industry representatives, but offers, I think, little insight. Read full story
From insideHPCWild guess that noisy chips won
Here’s an interesting idea from the NewScientist While researchers are striving to make the models more realistic, they are limited by the processing power of the supercomputers that run climate models, Palmer says. “That determines…
From insideHPCReal scale, and the week in
Latest features are up at HPCwire. In “Real scale, real problems” I discuss last Yahoo!’s most recent announcement that three new universities are joining Carnegie Mellon in taking advantage of the M45 cluster to do research…
From Putting People FirstNokia
Nokia’s IdeasProject site contains this week a video interview with Don Tapscott, and four feature articles that integrate some of the ideas presented thus far on the site: Head in the Cloud: computing becomes virtual As the…
From Putting People First
AP published an interview with Julie Larson-Green, head of Windows Experience and in charge of Windows 7, the next version of Windows for PCs. “The primary things that help you create a good user experience are empathy, and being…
From Wild WebMinkJava Needs A Cloud Profile
Back in 1995 I was a huge fan and advocate of Java - at IBM - because it provided developers and deployers a universal layer that promised to reduce the lock-in caused by platform differences. The JCP went on to define a limited…
From The Noisy ChannelMathew Ingram: Google Helps Newspapers
Mathew Ingram at The Nieman Journalism Lab wrote a post today entitled “Google helps newspapers
From The Noisy ChannelMathew Ingram: Google Helps Newspapers
Mathew Ingram at The Nieman Journalism Lab wrote a post today entitled “Google helps newspapers
From The Eponymous PickleMinimum Inventory, Maximum Diversity
From the Wolfram Research blog. About logo design using parametric equations and algorithms. Fascinating experiment that neatly combines design and mathematics. Regret I no longer have access to Mathematica to test this concept…
From The Noisy ChannelAll Set On Reviewers!
On Friday, shortly after sending a copy of my Faceted Search manuscript to my publisher, I put out a call for volunteer reviewers. The response has been overwhelming, and I am personally overwhelmed to see this validation that…
From The Noisy ChannelAll Set On Reviewers!
On Friday, shortly after sending a copy of my Faceted Search manuscript to my publisher, I put out a call for volunteer reviewers. The response has been overwhelming, and I am personally overwhelmed to see this validation that…
From The Eponymous PickleHakuhodo Buys into Buyology Inc.
Martin Lindstrom has been consulting with Hakuhodo: Japanese Agency Buys Into Buyology from Neuroscience marketing by Roger Dooley
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