Ruzena Bajcsy (University of California, Berkeley) and Klara Nahrstedt (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) have provided the following argument for the...Peter Lee From The Computing Community Consortium Blog | February 17, 2009 at 10:05 PM
Alison Bolen, SASCom editor in chief, has some good notes on the Analytics 101 webcast, which I menaged to miss due to other engagments.Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | February 17, 2009 at 09:23 PM
Two Carnegie Mellon Computer Science professors, Ryan O’Donnell and Luis von Ahn, have been awarded 2009 Sloan Foundation Research Fellowships. Three CMU CS alumni...Peter Lee From CSDiary | February 17, 2009 at 08:16 PM
Penguin Computing today announced availability of Mellanox’s BridgeX series of multi-protocol gateway systems on their Application-Ready HPC cluster solutions.
Penguin...John Leidel From insideHPC | February 17, 2009 at 07:05 PM
About a week ago the NYTimes had an article on Google's Power Meter Project. Jim Stogdill has a good followup article on O'Reilly Radar where he looks into more...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | February 17, 2009 at 06:44 PM
Officials at the Rocky Mountain Supercomputing Center have announced that their new IBM supercomputer is ready for business. The new Butte, Montana supercomputing...John Leidel From insideHPC | February 17, 2009 at 06:42 PM
Professor Gemma Calvert of Neurosense, sends along a link to the podcast videos from the 2008 Neuromarketing event held in Warwick last September. Prof Gemma Calvert...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | February 17, 2009 at 03:21 PM
I decided to copy Daniel Tunkelang’s idea and maintain a list of some people who read my blog. This is not meant to be an ego-boosting or name-dropping project.... From Daniel Lemire's Blog | February 17, 2009 at 03:13 PM
“Cellphones have changed how we communicate with others, and now they are changing how we think about information,” argues John Markoff of the New York Times.
“With...Experientia From Putting People First | February 17, 2009 at 07:15 AM
MIT Media Lab has set up a Center for Future Banking. I guess they have some work to do.
“Researchers at the Center for Future Banking, in collaboration with Bank...Experientia From Putting People First | February 17, 2009 at 07:03 AM
The end of the Tether era at DARPA has generated a lot of speculation about Tether’s successor — though nothing yet that seems all that credible. But what about...Peter Lee From CSDiary | February 17, 2009 at 05:56 AM
Today President Barack Obama signed into law the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. This legislation provides billions in funding intended to spur economic...Cameron Wilson From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM | February 17, 2009 at 12:00 AM
The Climate Savers Computing Initiative is organizing a challenge to encourage universities to “make a dent in pollution by powering down campus computers.”
One...John West From insideHPC | February 16, 2009 at 11:35 PM
European HPC maker Bull reported its fiscal 2008 results on Friday, and probably popped a cork or two in the process. Revenues up, EBIT up, cash on hand up, and...John West From insideHPC | February 16, 2009 at 11:22 PM
It is election time for the CSTA Board of Directors. This year, the K-8 representative, two 9-12 representatives, the school district representative, the college... From Computer Science Teachers Association | February 16, 2009 at 10:30 PM
Thoughtful article in Episteme on Wikipedia. Very good points about the differences of what mass collaboration produces vs that comes from typical editorial collaboration...Franz Dill From The Eponymous Pickle | February 16, 2009 at 09:09 PM
Jeffrey Sachs, the director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University and special adviser to the United Nations Secretary-General on the Millennium Development...Experientia From Putting People First | February 16, 2009 at 06:45 PM