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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 insideHPC
Cray option buy back
Remember back at the end of February when insideHPC broke the news that Cray was offering to buy back drowning options from employees as a gesture of goodwill?...
From insideHPC
Today
I wrote a feature last week for HPCwire on solid state drives. I had two goals: first, to provide a little background for those wondering exactly what an SSD is...
From insideHPC
The week in
My regular weekly feature at HPCwire was up late last week; from that article’s introduction Sun sells supers down under for weather prediction; new Rackable solution...
From insideHPC
Oxford installs supercomputer from Streamline
In mid-March I had an email show up in the insideHPC news hopper with a pointer to news that the University of Oxford had just installed a new cluster from Streamline...
From insideHPC
Academic HPC
A couple weeks ago I invited vendors with academic discounts to send me info and I’d do a round up here in response to what looked like a growing trend. I only...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Fun not Fear
Barb Didrichsen points me to a new site by Phil Terry: Fun not Fear. " ... The science and math behind 'bad news' With the "fun not fear" Facebook campaign, we...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
More on
Susan Graham provided a great overview in a post a few days ago of the Computing Community Consortium’s March 25th day-long Library of Congress symposium, “Computing...
From Wild WebMink
Sunday Link Selection on March 29
I've finally reached home again after two weeks of travel in the US and Europe; here are a few links to celebrate.Waiting for the Barbarians by C. P. Cavafy "Now...
From CERIAS Blog
Cyber security challenges and windmills
[Note: the following is primarily about U.S. Government policies, but I believe several points can be generalized to other countries.] I was editing a section of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
BusinessWeek on Business Intelligence
Fairly good piece on Business Intelligence, saying its time is now because it will be the method to get the kind of efficiency that will be required to survive...
From Wild WebMink
Twilight Zone Over
That's it - Europe is now messing with the clock too, so the usual northern hemisphere time-zone spacings are back in place and the Twilight Zone is ended. Now...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
A taxonomy of Computer Science researchers
As a kid, you are told that scientists follow the scientific method. They come up with a hypothesis, and they try to falsify it. You also learn about engineers...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Improving your Linkedin Profile
Short CIO article on improving your Linkedin profile. Largely obvious, but a useful checklist, especially to those new to Linkedin.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Augmented Reality
Interesting piece I just got to on augmented reality work at Microsoft. Augmented reality has always been of interest to me as a way to overlay data in retail...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
Internet Privacy Bill Possible in this Congress
The Bits blog at The New York Times recently ran an interview with Representative Rick Boucher (D-VA) the new Chair of the Subcommittee on Communications, Technology...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Free Software and Copyright Law
Legal thoughts from a presentation by Richard Stallman. Once again the very odd implications of copyright law.
From Putting People First
Dimensions of compelling mobile experiences
Dave Zuvernik, senior user research specialist on Adobe XD
From The Eponymous Pickle
Haptic Jackets
Haptics are the study of using touch as input or output. Touch is a hard sense to deliver or detect precisely. Now the promise of a 'haptic jacket' which will...
From Wild WebMink
Forcing Dutch procurement to be transparent
You may remember last September I published an interview with crusading Dutch IT journalist Brenno de Winter. During our meeting, we discussed the sorry state of...
From Springenwerk Blog