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Australian Wine Tasting

We ended the capstone seminar this year with an Australian Wine Tasting. People teamed up and went in on a bottle of Australian wine, max. US$18, and labelled them with appropriately Australian monikers. My “Crowded House,” a Ringbolt Cab-Sav didn’t do well at all, though I liked it. The winner was a 2001 Greg Norman [...]
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Google Maps Walking Tour

Tim Bray posted a link to Udell’s Google Maps walking tour of Keene, NH, in case anyone (like me), hadn’t seen it. This is really very cool: it’s what happens when you allow others to co-design your service. I don’t know how many of the current MI students read my blog (I suspect very few), [...]
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GRE-Computer

The The Chronicle is reporting that ETS will soon offer a test of basic computer skills. We have been talking about requiring such a test for the Master of Informatics for some time now. We’ve just dropped the GRE as a requirement for applicants (they can submit if they choose to — i.e., if they [...]
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New(ish) job

While this may not be news to everyone who reads the blog, today it was made official. I have a new administrative position in the School: I am the Graduate Director of Informatics. In practice, I’ll still be teaching and doing research, but I will also be in charge of the Masters in Informatics program. [...]
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