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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
Wal-Mart and Prism
Ad Age reports on Wal-Mart's pulling out of Prism. " ... decided not to participate in the national syndicated service "consistent with their internal data-sharing...
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
Where are the academic podcasts?
This blog is also a podcast. Few people notice. I have not posted any audio in months. (If you have never listened to me: I am better at writing English than at...
From insideHPC
Butte Becomes
Montana’s first [according to the article] supercomputer has officially arrived in Butte.
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
What makes recommender systems work?
Why can we predict tastes? There are several possible explanations: Intrinsically, individuals have predictable tastes. To test this theory, we would need to isolate...
From Springenwerk Blog
Links for 2008-12-30 [del.icio.us]
Facebook Platform .:. Bug 3732 – Users cannot add apps (URI repeatedly grows until it's too long)
From The Eponymous Pickle
Second Earth: A Geographic Model Mashup
An interesting example of the overlaying of real time data from the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) onto a globe, which was then inserted...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Google Ends Research Database Program
Google will end their research database program at the end of January 09. The object was to provide large databases for scientific study, as described in this....
From The Eponymous Pickle
Cell Phone Health Biometrics
Another example of health monitoring using cellphone based systems, from UCLA.
From The Eponymous Pickle
End of Individual Genius?
A interesting view, though I remember reading about this a long time ago. That most results come from research labs, not individuals. There seem to be many celebrity...
From insideHPC
VTDC
Just announced on the Beowulf list are the details for the third annual International Workshop on Virtualization Technologies in Distributed Computing [VTDC09].
From Computer Science Teachers Association
Teaching CS to Middle School Students
As I middle school teacher, I think it is my responsibility to expose my students to a variety of topics within my subject area. In just a few short months or years...
From insideHPC
Parallel framework for statistical analysis package
Yes, I know that R doesn’t have quotes, but I thought that the non-R users out there might think it was a typo. Good news if you use R and yearn for easier access...
From insideHPC
Taking the road less traveled to parallel apps via Erlang and
There are lots of ideas flying around the developer community right now as businesses look for ways to capitalize on the gap between the capacity of multicore processors...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Correlations in Social Neuroscience
Via Mind Hacks, an overview of and a pointer to an MIT paper on the statistical correlations between fMRI brain activity and reported human behavior. This is a...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Martin Wattenberg
Good overview piece on data visualization innovator Martin Wattenberg, with descriptions of his recent work. Previously on Wattenberg's work.
From The Eponymous Pickle
Top Small Business Trends
Steve King's Small Business Labs publishes their top ten small business trends for 2009.
From Putting People First
interactions magazine: time for some change
The January-February 2009 issue of Interactions Magazine has just been launched, which in itself is a celebration of the fantastic transformation of the magazine...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Science of Shopping
Broad article in the Economist on the topic of how retail is increasingly using the store as a laboratory to gather behavioral data about shoppers. Also aboutBrandsense...
From insideHPC
Microsoft
On Christmas Day, Microsoft published the details on a recent patent application geared toward pay-as-you-go computing.
From Daniel Lemire's Blog