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Why enterprise software is so shockingly bad
From Putting People First

Why enterprise software is so shockingly bad

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...

Ethnographic research: a key to strategy
From Putting People First

Ethnographic research: a key to strategy

Ken Anderson, a senior researcher and anthropologist at Intel, wrote a short article for the Harvard Business Review on the importance of corporate ethnography:...

Staying connected to SC, year
From insideHPC

Staying connected to SC, year

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...

Open source and mobile banking
From Putting People First

Open source and mobile banking

After coming home from the Mobile World Congress, Mark Pickens, a microfinance analyst with CGAP

The three layers of handhelds user experience
From Putting People First

The three layers of handhelds user experience

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...

If you could only write one more research paper
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

If you could only write one more research paper

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...

Art and Code
From CSDiary

Art and Code

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...

Where Are All the High School Computer Science Students?
From Computer Science Teachers Association

Where Are All the High School Computer Science Students?

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...

The Inquirer Interviews Khronos
From insideHPC

The Inquirer Interviews Khronos

The Inquirer has posted a quick interview with the Khronos Group president, Neil Trevett.

Engineering Education
From The Eponymous Pickle

Engineering Education

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...

Augmenting Reality : Cellphones and Models
From The Eponymous Pickle

Augmenting Reality : Cellphones and Models

The NYTimes has an article: The Cellphone, Navigating Our Lives talks about the concept of augmenting reality. Specifically about new cellphone interfaces that...

Private Label Winning
From The Eponymous Pickle

Private Label Winning

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...

"Because our copyrights are worth more than your human rights"
From Wild WebMink

"Because our copyrights are worth more than your human rights"

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...

CTR
From insideHPC

CTR

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...

Thinking About Computational Thinking
From CSDiary

Thinking About Computational Thinking

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...

Feldman revisits the memory wall, takes family
From insideHPC

Feldman revisits the memory wall, takes family

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...

AMD demos working Istanbul 6-socket
From insideHPC

AMD demos working Istanbul 6-socket

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...

HyperTransport group
From insideHPC

HyperTransport group

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...

Intel aims tweaked servers at cloud
From insideHPC

Intel aims tweaked servers at cloud

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...

Nokia Siemens Network going for
From Putting People First

Nokia Siemens Network going for

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...
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