Virginia Tech Is Building an Artificial America in a Supercomputer (Spectrum Online)
Synthetic citizens will help social scientists. The first task is to model flu transmission patterns from 100 gigabytes of population data | | | Peek at the Week (Mount Prospect Times)
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The Best Online Newsletter in 86 industries will be judged as part of the 2009 Internet Advertising Competition awards. Companies or agencies wishing to nominate their work for consideration may do so at http://www.iacaward.org before the deadline of January 30, 2009. | | | Week of December 4, 2008 (Miami Today)
These film permits were issued last week by the Miami-Dade County Mayor's Office of Film & Entertainment, (305) 375-3288; the Miami Mayor's Office of Film, Arts & Entertainment, (305) 860-3823; and the Miami Beach Office of Arts, Culture and Entertainment-Film and Print Division, (305) 673-7070. | | | Background Note: Nigeria (Scoop.co.nz)
Geography Area: 923.8 thousand sq. km. (356,700 sq. mi.) about the size of California, Nevada, and Arizona. Cities: Capital --Abuja (pop. est. 452,000). | | | My Web Doesn't Like Your Enterprise, at Least While it's More Fun (O'Reilly Media)
The other day Jesse posted a call for participation for the next Velocity Web Operations Conference. My background is in the enterprise space, so, despite Velocity's web focus, I wondered if there might not be interest in a bit of enterprise participation. After all, enterprise data centers deal with the same "Fast, Scaleable, Efficient, and Available" imperatives. I figured there... | | |
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