November 2008
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Can supercomputers help save the economy?
Obama is hearing calls for new funding to improve the information infrastructure and the virtual highways it runs on and to broaden access to high-performance computing (HPC) systems. ComputerWorld: Can supercomputers help save the economy?
Nov 28th
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ScienceSim is the virtual world for the high performance computing community. It can be used for education, collaboration and visualization.
Nov 26th
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“Ubicomp [ubiquitous computing] isn’t just part of our cities of the future. Its...”
– Rob van Kranenburg, Institute of Networked Cultures
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Losing sleep over your commute? You're not alone.
To better understand the effects of traffic congestion from the perspective of a commuter, IBM’s Institute for Electronic Government presents a report that summarizes survey results from over 4,000 drivers in ten major U.S cities. IBM - Pained by gas prices?
Nov 24th
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Smarter Working: Virtual Meetings Could  Give Conference Calls More of a Face-to-Face Feel “Sametime 3-D” creates a virtual meeting space ‘on demand’ that uses the capabilities of the virtual environment, including presentation tools, access to 3-D objects in the avatar’s inventory and full avatar functionality. (via IBM Research Announces Sametime - 3D Project)
Nov 21st
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Web Meets World: Privacy and the Future of the...
http://radar.oreilly.com/2008/11/web-meets-world-privacy-and-th.html
Nov 20th
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“In the following Edge original essay, Taleb continues his examination of Black...”
– Edge: THE FOURTH QUADRANT: A MAP OF THE LIMITS OF STATISTICS By Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nov 20th
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Undressing in public: Harnessing the power of Web... →
More customers are online than ever before. This IBM Institute for Business Value white paper spells out why banks should learn to use methods such as blogging and social networking to cost-effectively and efficiently reach an increasingly fragmented and dispersed customer base.
Nov 20th
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“The West Virginia Division of Highways on Friday opened the first phase of a new...”
– The Charleston Gazette - West Virginia News and Sports - News - ‘Smart’ traffic center starts up
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Intelligent Transportation Infrastructure  (via Vehicle Infrastructure Integration) a coalition ofthe U.S. Department of Transportation, light vehicle manufacturers, state and local governments.
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“For years, Western governments have used supercomputers to model weapons of...”
– Computing From Weather to Warcraft
Nov 18th
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IBM Announces Sweeping Initiative to Address Major...
IBM launches its largest ever portfolio of new storage hardware, software and services, the building blocks for the world’s strongest information infrastructure portfolio. This portfolio addresses challenges of scalability, security, consolidation and retention. Sweeping Initiative to Address Major Shift in The Flow of World’s Data - United States
Nov 18th
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Virtual Africa Machinima This Second Life simulation, which includes an artificially intelligent meerkat, underscores the increasing ability to create intelligence with a simulated environment. It also  demonstrates the power of 3D technologies to serve as promotion or public relations, in this case, an initiative by a South African social development firm.
Nov 17th
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Fighting Traffic Jams With Data
A symphony of light-emitting diodes, smartphones, global positioning systems and mobile sensors may soon work together to help drivers avoid traffic jams. Fighting Traffic Jams With Data - WSJ.com
Nov 17th
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NYC Goes Wireless & Vehicles Talk to Everything
Instead of trying to change drivers’ behavior by charging them more to drive on the road they want, Caltrans District 4 deployed variable message signs on major routes around the San Francisco area that informed drivers of how current travel times on the road compared against the real time travel times of transit options. Cascadia Prospectus
Nov 17th
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Cognitive Wireless Broadband
Within the next couple of years, high-bandwidth (tens of megabits per second), far-reaching wireless Internet signals will soon blanket the nation, thanks to a decision by the FCC last week to allow use of megahertz frequency bands that were previously allocated to television broadcasters. (Source: Technology Review)
Nov 14th
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“The goal of pervasive Business Intelligence (BI) is to serve up just-in-time...”
– ‘BI’ for the Masses | Informatica Perspectives
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