Intel launches all-new PC architecture with Core i5/i7 CPUs

“Intel brought its mainstream desktop CPU lineup into the Nehalem era today with the launch of the Core i7 860 and 870, and the Core i5 750. Also launched today is the P55 chipset, which implements a new system architecture that represents a significant break with Intels past. In this short article, well take a brief look at each, in turn.”

“Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine
by W. Daniel Hillis
Nobel prize winner physicist Richard Feynman played a critical role in developing the first parallel-processing computer and finding innovative uses for it in numerical computing and building neural networks as well as physical simulation with cellular-automata such as turbulent fluid flow, working with Stephen Wolfram.”

via Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine.

Cory Doctorow on life in the information economy

via Cory Doctorow on life in the information economy – Business of Software.