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Consilience: The Path to Innovation
I believe solutions to many of the most challenging problems facing our society – medicine and health care, climate and the environment, economic security and privacy – will require fusing expertise from multiple disciplines,…
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AMD plans 1PF graphical supercomputer for interactive content delivery
Many announcements came out of CES last week, but not many of them have anything to do with us. Which is why AMD CEO Dirk Meyer’s proclamation that he is building a 1 PF supercomputer destined to become part of the internet infrastructure…
Book: Elsewhere, U.S.A.
Elsewhere, U.S.A. How We Got from the Company Man, Family Dinners, and the Affluent Society to the Home Office, BlackBerry Moms, and Economic Anxiety by Dalton Conley Pantheon, Hardcover January 2009 Abstract Over the past three…
Smart Phone Watches
Apparently there are a number of watch format devices that aim to replace smartphones. But as long as we use our fingers I wonder about their practicality. Above, the LG Watch phone, being shown at CES 2008.
Roland Piquepaille Passes
UK correspondent Richard James informs me of the passing of emerging tech blogger Roland Piquepaille. I read much of what he read and he was an inspiration for tracking new technologies via a blog.
Deadline approaches to apply for time on the TeraGrid
From HPCwire Scientists, engineers, and other U.S. researchers have until Jan. 15, 2009 (12:00 midnight local times) to apply for allocations of high-performance computer time and storage resources that are available through…
Produce Interface
This post on a Danish interface for produce does not say a great deal, but I am glad that others are paying attention to retail interfaces around the world. Produce, because of its considerable variability, can be difficult…
Weekend link roundup on January 11
- FTC Town Hall to Address Digital Rights Management TechnologiesIn Seattle. Looks worth a contribution, US-ians.
- On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dogI have this cartoon on my wall, and it's once again relevant as people bemoan …
Back in the USA, Time for PhD Admissions Decisions
I’ve just landed in Detroit, just one more short hop to get home. The visit to Taipei was both productive and fun. Lots of CMU faculty members were there: Lujo Bauer, Ed Clarke, Christos Faloutsos, Virgil Gligor, and Adrian Perrig…
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 of women or underrepresented minorities in computing would
…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 for they use a single measure and indicate where its value falls…
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Users Rationally Rejecting Security Advice
This paper, by Cormac Herley at Microsoft Research, sounds like me: Abstract: It is often suggested that users are hopelessly lazy and unmotivated on…4-year Masters
Harvard, like many other places, has an option by which students (with "Advanced Standing" from AP classes) can obtain a Master's (in some programs) as…Run-length encoding (part I)
Run-length encoding (RLE) is probably the most important and fundamental string compression technique. Countless multimedia formats and protocols use…
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