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    infoneer-pulse reblogged explore-blog
    “This is the time for forward-looking research universities to invest scarce resources in computer science/computing—even at the expense of other engineering disciplines, if necessary—in order to ensure a vibrant, cohesive, and prominent computer science/computing presence and identity. This most certainly is not the time to scale back on computer science research and education.”
    — Zvi Galil, Dean of College of Computing at Georgia Tech, sends the president of University of Florida a letter addressing UF’s decision to eliminate its computer science department in order to save money. (via explore-blog)
    #education #computer science #higher education #budget #florida
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      infoneer-pulse reblogged greggyour
      “Social media is here to stay. We need to get past the point in which we celebrate it or lament it in order to figure out how to live productively with it.”
      — danah boyd: Whether the digital era improves society is up to its users – that’s us (via greggyour)
      #social media #change #tech #culture
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        infoneer-pulse
        “The entire Bay Area is enamored with these notions of innovation, creativity, entrepreneurship, mega-success,” he says. “It’s in the air we breathe out here. It’s an atmosphere that can be toxic to the mission of the university as a place of refuge, contemplation, and investigation for its own sake.”
        — Is Stanford Too Close to Silicon Valley? : The New Yorker
        Source: newyorker.com
        #education #tech #silicon valley #innovation #entrepreneurship
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          courtenaybird

          The Fight For The Fifth Screen (Fifth Screen!?) In Your Life 

          Essentially, the fifth screen represents a paradigm shift in advertising as much as it represents a change in the way we use computers on the move. It means ads everywhere, and different kinds of ads too—something TV advertisers are beginning to wake up to, now viewers use their iPads and phones while watching TV… “Every single piece of advertising now has as its goal behavior change. Understanding how to change behavior, and what people will choose to interact with is key for advertisers. Expect to see more science, more psychologists, and more behavioral data informing advertising in the future.” 

          Fast Company #Tech #advertising #google #project glass #augmented reality
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            infoneer-pulse
            “In the midst of this multimedia blitzkrieg, the importance of mindfulness and focused attention is rising. If we can’t cultivate mindfulness and focused attention while sitting quietly in a room, then how can we expect to bring these qualities of mind into turbulent circumstances — both on and offline?”
            — MediaShift . Why We Need to Teach Mindfulness in a Digital Age | PBS
            Source: pbs.org
            #Education #mindfulness #culture #information #focus #data
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              infoneer-pulse reblogged stoweboyd
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              Great inventors engage in divergent or “wrong” thinking, which allows them to explore the full realm of possibilities for a solution - no matter how silly or far-fetched. They’re not necessarily concerned with the most logical solution, and certainly not with one that draws on “conventional wisdom.” As modern-day inventor Sir James Dyson puts it:

              We’re taught to do things the right way. But if you want to discover something that other people haven’t, you need to do things the wrong way… When I was doing my vacuum cleaner, I started out trying a conventionally shaped cyclone, the kind you see in textbooks. But we couldn’t separate the carpet fluff and dog hairs and strands of cotton in those cyclones. It formed a ball inside the cleaner or shot out the exit and got into the motor. I tried all sorts of shapes. Nothing worked. So then I thought I’d try the wrong shape, the opposite of conical. And it worked.

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              Source: the99percent.com
              #innovation #creativity #invention #ideas #education
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                infoneer-pulse
                “If each function across the publishing company is responsible for their own metadata, then marketing is going to be responsible for the metadata that’s most important to marketing, production is going to be responsible for metadata that’s most important to them. So, rather than having one person decide what’s the most important metadata, if everyone’s taking responsibility for it — and using it — then it’s guaranteed to be good.”
                — Metadata is everyone’s responsibility - O’Reilly Radar
                Source: radar.oreilly.com
                #metadata #information #workflow #responsibility
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                  infoneer-pulse
                  “Books are going to provoke the best conversations because people think really deeply about them. And people bring a certain level of intellectual seriousness to them that they don’t even necessarily bring to newspapers. I am absolutely convinced that being able to see what other people have said about a book and to talk about it and respond to it is going to be a freakishly huge boon for books.”
                  — Is making books social a good thing or a bad thing? — Tech News and Analysis
                  Source: gigaom.com
                  #books #social media #discourse #tech
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                    infoneer-pulse
                    Studies show data management skills in high demand and low supply at universities insidehighered.com

                    The ability to work well with data is understood to be an increasingly crucial skill as universities aim to preserve, sort and discover information that emerges from research.

                    But several studies, revealed here at the annual meeting of the Coalition for Networked Information, suggest that higher education has so far fallen short of preparing research faculty and university information workers to handle those tasks.

                    An ethnographic study of 23 faculty members, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students and other researchers, conducted by the anthropologists Lori Jahnke and Andrew Asher on behalf of the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), found that none had received formal training in data management — “nor do they express satisfaction with their level of expertise,” according to a summary of the report.

                    “Researchers are learning on the job in an ad hoc fashion,” explained Rachel Frick, director of the Digital Library Federation at CLIR, quoting the report.

                    » via Inside Higher Ed

                    #education #higher education #data #information #management
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