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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
Bullet Graphs
A Perceptual Edge post about bullet graphs, which I have never used. Apparently these were designed to replace circular gauge type displays. In their simplest...
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Gender and Race Issues in Computing
On several mailing lists that I monitor when the issue of gender and/or race is brought up there is a group that responds that any attempt to increase the percentage...
From Putting People First
10 most common misconceptions about user experience design
Whitney Hess, an independent user experience designer, writer and consultant, asked some of the most influential and widely respected [USA] practitioners in UX...
From CSDiary
CMU Students Cited by the CRA, NY Times
Well, I’m finally on my way home from Taipei. I’m on a layover right now in Osaka, Japan, awaiting the continuation of my flight back to the USA. While I’m here...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Finish this sequence of equalities
8809 = 6 7111 = 0 2172 = 0 6666 = 4 1111 = 0 3213 = 0 7662 = 2 9312 = 1 0000 = 4 2222 = 0 3333 = 0 5555 = 0 8193 = 3 8096 = 5 7777 = 0 9999 = 4 7756 = 1 6855 =...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Expands Semantics in Search
I recall doing several searches where I thought the results indicated a fairly complex semantic net was being used on their side. Here is more evidence that they...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Frequency of Impulse Purchases
Wharton Prof David R. Bell, in a detailed article, says that there is less general impulse purchasing than we had thought. " ... "The message ... is that the amount...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Tom Peters on Boomer Markets
Tom Peters comments on the Boomer market and links to some new Forrester work in this area.
From The Eponymous Pickle
CES Overview
Have not been to one of these in years, but worth a look: The Consumer Electronics Show
From insideHPC
User Response: 10GbE Cluster
Yesterday, we posted a summary and link to an article arguing for the general acceptance of 10GbE as a valid cluster interconnect platform.
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
The purpose of peer review
Michael Nielsen has an excellent post today: Three myths about scientific peer review. The myths are: Scientists have always used peer review: it seems it became...
From Wild WebMink
Thursday's Links, January 8th
OpenOffice.org vs. Go-OO: Cutting through the Gordian KnotInteresting and reasonably balanced article on the endless and fruitless debate Novell is generating.Sun...
From CSDiary
NY Times on the Pittsburgh Economy
I’m about to start the last day of meetings here in Taipei. There have been many interesting research presentations and hallway conversations, as well as ceremonial...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Microsoft Tag Released
It is unfair to compare this to the CueCat, since that fabled failed project attempted to include a unitasking piece of hardware, while these methods do not and...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Open Source Victories
Open Source victories of 2008. For those interested in the topic of open source this is interesting. After my leaving the big firm, now that I have to make my...
From insideHPC
IBM and ITIF calls on President-elect to pump $30B into
From coverage at The Register In December, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal, Palmisano made a presentation to Carol Browner, the incoming White...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Progress is continuous by nature
In my post We never invent anything new, yet progress is made!, I argued that innovation is incremental and social. I derived two recommendations for innovators...
From insideHPC
10GbE is Ready for Your Cluster. Or is
Linux Magazine has an article written by Dan Tuchler detailing why he thinks 10-gigabit Ethernet should be a more widely considered for vanilla HPC cluster installations...
From insideHPC
200 TFLOPS Chinese super expected in
According to Chinese news agency Xinhua, the home grown Dawning 5000A is expected to be installed in April of this year. The supercomputer, with a peak capability...
From insideHPC