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Welcome to the Family: Part 2

 

Part Two of the Welcome to the Family podcast by David Alan Grier.

Welcome to the Family

 

Becoming a professional means joining the family, with all the rights, responsibilities, and discipline that come with membership.

The Character of Play: Part 4

 

In computer science education, we tend to emphasize the knowledge that we need to impart to our students and the skills they need to develop, but we generally fail to talk about the emotional and cultural aspects of their growth.

The Character of Play: Part 3

 

In computer science education, we tend to emphasize the knowledge that we need to impart to our students and the skills they need to develop, but we generally fail to talk about the emotional and cultural aspects of their growth.

The Character of Play: Part 2

Host David Alan Grier shares with us the trials of the Computer Museum's staff as they work on getting an IBM 1401 back in working order. The challenges they faced despite the computer being less than 50 years old are a great example of how fast technology vanishes from our lives in this day and age.

The Character of Play

In computer science education, we tend to emphasize the knowledge that we need to impart to our students and the skills they need to develop, but we generally fail to talk about the emotional and cultural aspects of their growth.

Original article link: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MC.2009.236

Marking the Fall of Sparrows

 

Electronic systems change the flow of work, the habits of thought, the way we perceive our activities. In the case of healthcare, such changes could easily produce a system that is radically different from the one we know.

The Dictator and the Web Design

The worlds of politics and web design intertwine and overlap much easier than you might expect. Anyone who has been part of a web (re)design committee, this podcast is a must listen.

Top of the News

Step by faltering step, the front page has been vanishing from the American news industry.

Virtual Walls

 

Virtual machines are a technology that was invented in one era, overlooked in a second, and rediscovered in a third.

 

 

Scanning the Horizon Pt 2

 

In addition to reducing the time it took to pay for purchases, bar codes and scanners provided a system that would track inventory, reduce theft, and provide data to help merchants understand how their goods were purchased.

 

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Politics in Play

 

Building an adaptive power grid requires cooperation, getting a common agreement among a large collection of engineers, investors, policy makers, corporate executives, and voters.


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Evolutionary Fervor

 

The business community has long embraced the notion that progress is an evolutionary process that comes with markets, competition, and the survival of the fittest.


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Drinking with Dinosaurs Pt. 4

Edward Elgar's Facebook Page

 

In just a handful of years, social networking tools have become part of our daily work and conversation.


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Drinking with Dinosaurs

 

We are told that we must learn from failure, but agreement with this principle does little to foster its enactment in the face of persistent psychological and organizational barriers.


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Click Here to Empty Trash

 

We are beginning to assess the impact of digital technologies and are starting to devise strategies to handle the changes that computers have wrought upon the environment.


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