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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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Doing Something Useful With Virtual Worlds

I have just got back from attending two conferences in the UK, the Head Conference, and Virtual Worlds London.  I was on a mission at both the events to ask questions about how Virtual World technology will answer the call Tim O’Reilly made at the Web 2.0 Expo in New York City to “create more […]

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