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Tweets
- NYT: "I would advise our readers to be good Bayesian thinkers..." As if we could be otherwise...? http://t.co/rLBUh1ib 14 hrs ago
- RT @lizlosh: "If you don't know your state variables you don't know yourself" and calls to "occupy health" #futurehealthsd #quantifiedself 1 day ago
- Were I still a student, or pre-tenure, I would so be at the Summer Research Institute for the Science of STS: http://t.co/Vhc2cCi2 1 day ago
- Can't be real: http://t.co/98gVZNvA 1 day ago
- Here at Security Concepts, we're predicting the end of crime in Old Detroit within 40 days. There's a new guy in town. http://t.co/7uT6EQCR 2 days ago
- @eknight I have a bad feeling about this. 2 days ago
- If only all car commercials were this good... http://t.co/lGc8HBud #fb 3 days ago
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Tag Archives: Masters of Informatics
The social job market
Interesting piece in Tomorrow’s Professor about a hypothetical interview with a top engineering student: Interviewer: “… First, what do you think your strengths are outside of math and computers?” Student: “Well, I’ve always been good in physics.” I: “How about social sciences and humanities?” S: “I did all right in those courses-mostly A’s-but I can’t [...]
School of Informatics post-mortem
Update (6/16): The official word has come down. Communication will be going to Arts and Sciences, Library Studies will be housed in the Graduate School of Education. The informatics programs will continue, it seems, though where they will call home is still in the process of being discussed. I’ve been at a couple of workshops [...]
School.of moved
An attack by nasty hackers meant it was necessary to move the schoolof server that hosted blogs at UB for several years. I still haven’t decided what to do with that–whether to set it up again for students at Quinnipiac or whether to rely on existing blog servers. Nonetheless, a few people requested that they [...]
Incommunicato
Been mid-move for a bit here and all but totally cut off from the world. No net, no mass media of any sort. Our cable/phone/internet bundle should be up by Tuesday, but it means that I’ve been kind of in the dark for a bit. Here are some promised items for my classes. First copies [...]
Capstone defenses
That time again… The following capstone projects are being defended this Wednesday: * Daniel Frey, Web-Based Comic Reservation System * Kristen Frey, The Mambo Community Component * Amal Harb, Implementation and Customization of Open Source Software to Meet Organizational Goals of a Web-Based National Arab American Event Directory * Jason Myszkiewicz, OneVote: Voter Relationship Management [...]
Boomers & Gamers
Aries (Godess) points me toward an OCLC report on Staying in the Game. It suggests, among other things, zoning your library for boomers and for gamers: Gamers are technologically savvy and can take in multiple streams of information while they socialize. They multitask! They need a space with all kinds of simultaneous activities—music, television, video [...]
School of Informatics Letter