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Innovation@Intel: Confrontational Computing

As if your spouse or colleagues arguing with you isn’t enough, now your web browser can argue with you too (or…argue for you!) Much of the information on the Internet consists of opinions, arguments, and beliefs. Not everything on the web is accurate, and extracting useful and reliable information can be challenging. At the Intel Research Berkeley Lab, researchers have built “Dispute Finder,” a tool that augments existing web browsers and shows you when claims you’re reading are in disagreement with claims elsewhere on the web, overlaying a network of factual claims on top of the existing web. For more information, read about Confrontational Computing on the Intel Research Berkeley Lab web page.

Super Computers – What are They?

Worlds Top 500 Super Computers Reviewed
MANNHEIM, Germany, BERKELEY, Calif., and KNOXVILLE, Tenn.—The 32nd edition of the closely watched list of the world’s TOP500 supercomputers has just been issued, with the 1.105 petaflop/s IBM supercomputer at Los Alamos National Laboratory holding on to the top spot it first achieved in June 2008.
The Los Alamos system, nicknamed [...]