This is a thing I’ve been trying to figure out in my spare time, mostly noodling about in my head with various ideas when I have some down time, and now I want to know if there’s a formal answer of some sort. It goes like this: in a lot of situations, ranging from airplane… via…

Although Intel has been producing chips based on the tick-tock pace for roughly a decade now, the last several ticks and tocks have not gone quite according to plan. The system began to break down after the Ivy Bridge tick. Ivy Bridge went off the beaten path a bit by bringing out a significantly improved…

The Samsung SM961 will be Samsung’s new top-of-the-range M.2 SSD line for OEMs, which will be offered in 128 GB, 256 GB, 512 GB and 1 TB configurations (by contrast, the SM951 family did not include a 1 TB option). The drive will be based on Samsung’s MLC V-NAND as well as the company’s Polaris…

From Dr. Laura Gogia @VCU who’s been dissertating for a while and now is thinking, “what else can I do with all this research on Connected Learning”? It’s been 17 days since I’ve successfully defended my dissertation.  Since then, I’ve made my edits, published the dissertation under a CC-BY-SA license on four platforms (ProQues… Source: The…

Originally posted on Computing Ed Research – Guzdial's Take: I was intrigued to see this post during CS Ed Week from ChangeTheEquation.org. They’re revisiting the Scaffidi, Shaw, and Myers question from 2005 (mentioned in this blog post). You may be surprised to learn that nearly DOUBLE the number of workers use computing than originally thought. …

Source: Reverse Engineering The iPhone’s Ancestor Interesting brief account of Advanced Risc Machines (ARM) and its current role as the cpu in a lot of devices. Do read the comments section, it’s better than the original story as the history accounts are more detailed there.

Originally posted on Hapgood: A lot of people have been tweeting and emailing me and DM-ing me the recent Guardian piece by Iran’s “blogfather”. You should read it yourself, but in short it is the story of a man sent to jail for blogging in Iran at the height of blogging’s influence and coming out…

Audrey Watters (Source: The Functions of Education-Technology Criticism) Really good work of writing about the often times over promotion of educational technology over real actual learning. Much appreciated on my part and worth a read if you find yourself in the unenviable position of questioning what is we actually DO here in higher ed.

Wow, now that’s a happy ending if I ever read one. I remember Jon’s earlier posts about his pain. Glad to know he found a resolution and it’s working for him. It gives me hope too! Sometimes there is a medically viable solution that’s better than living with the pain. And it sounds like Jon…