is on YouTube. William Kamkwamba was 14-years-old when he built his first windmill from a picture in a library book. Thanks to David Brush and Fast Church for their Tweets on this inspirational story of a young man in Malawi.
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Category Archives: Technology
Apple’s mac & os x used by cognitive-edge folks
Last week at this time I and a bunch of us were winging our way to Raleigh for a three-day Cognitive Edge course on complexity and sense-making. The company has been started by a couple of ex-IBMers and does extensive contract consulting with large corporations and governments. They work with our defense and agriculture departments, [...]
Resurrecting IDEF0/ICOM modeling work
In the last half of the 90s I worked in the Indianapolis field office of PRC, Inc., a high tech “Beltway” defense contractor with headquarters in McLean. Our office, though, was geared toward servicing educational clients. We had a ESEA Chapter 1 (or Title I, depending on which political party occupied the White House) [...]
“Enthusiasts Convene To Say No To SQL, Hash Out New DB Breed”: From yesterday’s slashdot discussions
[0]ericatcw writes “The [1]inaugural NoSQL meet-up in San Francisco during last month’s [2]Yahoo! Apache Hadoop Summit had a whiff of revolution about it, like a latter-day techie version of the American Patriots planning the Boston Tea Party. Like the Patriots, who rebelled against Britain’s heavy taxes, NoSQLers came to share how [3]they had overthrown the [...]
“On the Humble Default”: From yesterday’s slashdot discussions
from the ne-pas-décider-c’est-décider dept.
posted by kdawson on Wednesday June 24, @01:48 (Programming)
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/06/23/2338230
Hugh Pickens sends along Kevin Kelly’s paean to the default. “One of the greatest unappreciated inventions of modern life is the default. ‘Default’ is a technical concept first used in computer science in the 1960s to indicate a preset standard. … Today the [...]
chalk up a “win” for linux as well as the West Point cadets
From Monday’s Slashdot discussions:
Hugh Pickens writes “A team of Army cadets spent four days at West Point last week struggling around the clock to keep a computer network operating while hackers from the National Security Agency tried to infiltrate it with methods that an enemy might use. The NSA made the cadets’ task more difficult [...]
BYU Prof. Says University Classrooms Will Be “Irrelevant” By 2020
Another Slashdot discussion starter. This one is from yesterday
from the not-into-job-security dept.
posted by timothy on Tuesday April 21, @13:12 (Education)
dragoncortez writes “According to this Desert News article,
University classrooms will be obsolete by 2020. BYU professor David Wiley envisions a world where students listen to lectures on iPods, and those lectures are also available online [...]
US Military Issuing iPod Touches To Soldiers
from Monday’s Slashdot conversations
644bd346996 writes “Newsweek has an article about the latest weapons in the US military’s arsenal. The iPod Touch and the iPhone are being adapted as general purpose handhelds for soldiers in the field.
Apple gadgets are proving to be surprisingly versatile. Software developers and the US Department of Defense are developing military software [...]
No more “checkout” people at the downtown library
I used the downtown library today for the first time. I had forgotten how much I enjoyed prowling the the stacks. Took me back to my childhood and student days in Atlanta and in various college libraries.
Oh. I have been to our new library before. Had meetings there. Accompanied our grandkids there to puppet shows and [...]
The forgotten rewards of reading a physical, hardcopy of a newspaper
I’ve been meaning to comment on this for a while since we started our home delivery subscription to The New York Times at the beginning of the month. In reading the paper in its original ink and newsprint version, I’ve come across articles and read that I never would have with the on-line version. The [...]