Programmer Michael Nygard thinks that the quality about some software that inspires love in their users, is totally devoid in enterprise software.
“The best you...Experientia From Putting People First | February 23, 2009 at 07:50 PM
Ken Anderson, a senior researcher and anthropologist at Intel, wrote a short article for the Harvard Business Review on the importance of corporate ethnography:...Experientia From Putting People First | February 23, 2009 at 07:33 PM
insideHPC’s buddy Rich Brueckner from Sun’s HPC Watercooler is heading up the use of what the kids are calling “social media” tools for SC09 this year, and he’s...John West From insideHPC | February 23, 2009 at 07:32 PM
After coming home from the Mobile World Congress, Mark Pickens, a microfinance analyst with CGAPExperientia From Putting People First | February 23, 2009 at 07:25 PM
Christian Lindholm, a partner and director at Fjord, argues that there are three layers in handhelds user experience:
“The highest level I call Bling (this is because...Experientia From Putting People First | February 23, 2009 at 07:16 PM
Many years ago, I read the following piece of wisdom:
If you had only one year left to live, what would you do differently?
What are you waiting for to make these... From Daniel Lemire's Blog | February 23, 2009 at 06:38 PM
I was planning to wait another week before blogging about this, but it looks like things are starting to fill up, so…
On March 7-9, Carnegie Mellon will be hosting...Peter Lee From CSDiary | February 23, 2009 at 06:03 PM
I recently had a discussion with a professor from Virginia Tech on why can't we recruit more students for Computer Science majors at the university level, why can't... From Computer Science Teachers Association | February 23, 2009 at 06:02 PM
Gary Wnek points out that David E Goldberg has posted an excellent detailed slide show: What Engineers Don't Learn and Why They Don't Learn it. Part of the Ifoundry...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | February 23, 2009 at 04:04 PM
The NYTimes has an article: The Cellphone, Navigating Our Lives talks about the concept of augmenting reality. Specifically about new cellphone interfaces that...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | February 23, 2009 at 02:46 PM
In AdAge: Private Label Winning Battle of BrandsMarketers Face Moment of Truth As Retailers' Lines Soar to Historic Sales High ... Package-goods brands face their...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | February 23, 2009 at 02:27 PM
Monday is the last day of the internet blackout campaign organised and in support of it I have blacked out my avatars on Twitter and Facebook as well as on this...webmink From Wild WebMink | February 23, 2009 at 08:15 AM
Computer Technology Review published its list of the top 5 trends it expects in HPC throughout 2009. Here is the (abbreviated) list
HPC is becoming more mainstream...John West From insideHPC | February 23, 2009 at 04:37 AM
What is “computational thinking”?
I think I first heard Jeannette Wing use the term back around the time that the Internet bubble burst, and of course we’ve become...Peter Lee From CSDiary | February 23, 2009 at 04:30 AM
Last week HPCwire’s editor Michael Feldman commented on the memory wall, and what may lie on the horizon for HPC
The Nehalem processors, though, should provide...John West From insideHPC | February 23, 2009 at 03:55 AM
Report at The Tech Report from Friday detailing a preview of working silicon for AMD’s new six-core Opteron, the chip that AMD hopes will stave off Intel’s forthcoming...John West From insideHPC | February 23, 2009 at 03:45 AM
Last week HPCwire ran this press release from the Hypertransport Group, released during their annual pow wow. Pretty standard stuff, except for the way this one...John West From insideHPC | February 23, 2009 at 03:26 AM
From a story at the UK’s TechWorld we learned last week that Intel is tweaking its Nehalem implementation to be more attractive to “cloud” installations
Intel is...John West From insideHPC | February 23, 2009 at 03:05 AM
The Nokia Siemens Network website and its forum site “Unite” contain a wealth of valuable articles and background papers:
A huge amount of articles and whitepapers...Experientia From Putting People First | February 22, 2009 at 08:54 PM