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People Meet People Meet Big Data: ScienceSim Explores Collaborative High Performance Computing

Wilfred Pinfold, Director, Extreme Scale Programs for Intel, and the Supercomputing Conference general chair, is working with some Intel colleagues to make a project called ScienceSim the centerpiece of a special workshop event at the SC09 conference (see Supercomputing Conference, an ACM and IEEE Computer society sponsored event). Recently, I interviewed Wilf Pinfold (see interview […]

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Hacking the World in 2009: Google Street View, “Smart Stuff,” and Wikiculture.

Google Street View Hacking This Google Street View Hack (via @timoreilly) will get my nomination for a Hacking the World Award this year, if there is such an award. A parade (the screenshot opening this post), a marathon, a mad-scientists laboratory, a sword fight, and more (see The Infonaut Blog) were staged all along the route […]

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Smart Planet:
Interview with Andy Stanford-Clark

“Smart Planet: Andy Stanford-Clark’s time has really come. His career of work in lightweight brokers and sensors is now going to pay off,” twittered James Governor (@monkchips), Redmonk, recently. The picture opening this post (from Andy Piper’s Flickr stream} was taken during Andy Stanford-Clark’s talk at The Inaugural HomeCamp (for more photos see Flickr “homecamp08″). […]

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