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One Laptop per Child - get one, give one…

I have been following Nicholas Negroponte’s One Laptop per Child (OLPC) initiative since its inception.  This month, starting November 12th in North America, OLPC is running a "get one, give one" program.  For $399 you can get the laptop and also have one sent to a child in a developing country.  The details are available on the […]

2007 11 04 David Intersimone Education
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What is Philippe Kahn doing these days?

From time to time someone asks me what Philippe Kahn is doing.  After he left Borland, Philippe successfully started (and sold) two companies, Starfish Software and LightSurf Technologies.  He is now the CEO, Chairman, and Co-founder (with Sonia Lee) of Fullpower Technologies.  He is also a successful sailboat racer with his Pegasus Racing team.
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2007 10 27 David Intersimone Embedded
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2005’s Top 500 super computer list…

The 25th edition of the top 500 super computers is out.  IBM’s Blue Gene/L tops the list with a performance level (based on the Linpack benchmark) of 136.8 teraflops per second.  I wish I had one of these on my desktop and in my backpack.
Articles about the top 500 list: Reuters, PhysOrg.com
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2005 06 22 David Intersimone Random Thoughts Comments (3)

A visual interface that gives autonomous machines "body language"

Researchers from Switzerland and South Africa have designed a visual interface that would give autonomous machines the equivalent of body language. The interface uses a clustering algorithm and a fractal generator.
"Our idea of communication has a strong focus on learning and interpretation — trying to create relationships between the internal machine variables and the macroscopic […]

2004 06 21 David Intersimone Programming Comments (1)
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