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Starting from the students to build engaging computing courses for non-CS majors: Response to Goldweber and Walker

Originally posted on Computing Ed Research – Guzdial's Take: Michael Goldweber and Henry Walker responded to my blog posts (here in Blog@CACM and here in this blog) in the Inroad blog (see article here). My thanks to them for taking the time to respond to me. I found their comments especially valuable in helping to…
Internet privacy, funded by spooks: A brief history of the BBG

Voice of America and all those propagandist triumphalist government programs are funded by us to the tune of $725M/year. That’s a lot of money.
Our Japanese staff members pick the top places in Japan they’d like to visit again someday
Links from Rune Madsen’s article: ON META-DESIGN AND ALGORITHMIC DESIGN SYSTEMS

ON META-DESIGN AND ALGORITHMIC DESIGN SYSTEMS I extracted the links of Rune’s weblog in order to catalog his sources and read them at my leisure. He’s assembled quite a library of references on the topic of Meta-design. So to further his cause I wanted to see each one of these websites myself and draw my…
WD-40 Should Read Its Own Label Before Suggesting Bartenders Use A Toxic Substance On Beer Tap Handles

I dare say there is a large quantity of lubricants on the market. Including “food safe” lubricants made out of mineral oil (which is safe) or silicone (which is also safe). But always, always go by the label. If it says it can be used in food handling equipment you’re good to go. If it…
MIT researchers claim they have a way to make faster chips

Originally posted on Gigaom: A team of MIT researchers have discovered a possible way to make multicore chips a whole lot faster than they currently are, according to a recently published research paper. The researchers’ work involves the creation of a scheduling technique called CDCS, which refers to computation and data co-scheduling. This technique can…
You had one job!

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Parents, get ready! Yo-kai Watch to ship worldwide in 2016
How-To: Now’s the right time to swap your old iMac’s hard drive for a fast new SSD

Prices are coming down on SSD’s and even on the name brand ones. I noticed just today Samsung drives are getting cheaper. A 512GB EVO is ~$200 now with the 1TB EVO for just over $414. Not bad at all. But not all Macs are as friendly and upgradeable the old G4 and G5 Mac…
MIT Researchers: Crowdsourced Outlines Improve Learning from Videos — Campus Technology

A team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University are using crowd-sourced conceptual outlines to help learners get more out of educational videos. via MIT Researchers: Crowdsourced Outlines Improve Learning from Videos — Campus Technology.