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Kunjan P

National Center for Supercomputing Applications - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) is a state-federal partnership to develop and deploy national-scale cyberinfrastructure that advances science and engineering. NCSA operates as a unit of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign but it provides high-performance computing resources to researchers across the country. Support for NCSA comes from the National Science Foundation, the state of Illinois, the University of Illinois, business and industry partners, and other federal agencies.
  • These centers were founded when a group of University of Illinois faculty, led by Larry Smarr, sent an unsolicited proposal to the National Science Foundation in 1983. The foundation announced funding for the supercomputer centers in 1985; the first supercomputer at NCSA came online in January 1986.
  • NCSA provides leading-edge computing, data storage, and visualization resources. NCSA computational and data environment implements a multi-architecture hardware strategy, deploying both clusters and shared memory systems to support high-end users and communities on the architectures best-suited to their requirements. Nearly 1,360 scientists, engineers and students used the computing and data systems at NCSA to support research in more than 830 projects. A list of NCSA hardware is available at NCSA Capabilities
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  • Today NCSA is collaborating with IBM, under a grant from the National Science Foundation, to build [1] "Blue Waters," a supercomputer capable of performing 1 quadrillion calculations per second, a measure known as a petaflop. Blue Waters is due to come online in 2011.
  • The Mosaic web browser, the first popular graphical Web browser which played an important part in expanding the growth of the World Wide Web, was written by Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina at NCSA. Andreessen and Bina went on to develop the Netscape Web browser. Mosaic was later licensed to Spyglass,_Inc. which provided the foundation for Internet Explorer.
  • Initially, NCSA's administrative offices were in the Water Resources Building and employees were scattered across the campus. NCSA is now headquartered within its own building directly north of the Siebel Center for Computer Science, on the site of a former baseball field, Illini Field. NCSA's supercomputers remain at the Advanced Computation Building, but construction is now under way on a Petascale Computing Facility to house Blue Waters.
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    The NCSA is a great stepping stone to the evolution of Web 2.0.
Patrick Jackson

http://www.kff.org/entmedia/upload/the-effects-of-electronic-media-on-children-ages-zer... - 0 views

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    From the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation 2005
Jacob Holland

Apache Software Foundation unveils Hadoop 2, replacing MapReduce with YARN - 1 views

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    This article outlines the technology supergiant's new software, Hadoop 2, that will greatly increase the efficiency of its users and benefit the Internet significantly.
Erin B

Tim Berners-Lee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee, OM, KBE, FRS, FREng, FRSA (born 8 June 1955,[1] also known as "TimBL"), is a British engineer and computer scientist and MIT professor credited with inventing the World Wide Web, making the first proposal for it in March 1989.
  • While an independent contractor at CERN from June to December 1980, Berners-Lee proposed a project based on the concept of hypertext, to facilitate sharing and updating information among researchers.[9] While there, he built a prototype system named ENQUIRE
  • In November 2009, Berners-Lee launched the World Wide Web Foundation in order to "Advance the Web to empower humanity by launching transformative programs that build local capacity to leverage the Web as a medium for positive change."
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    Who Tim Berners-Lee is.
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    While an independent contractor at CERN from June to December 1980, Berners-Lee proposed a project based on the concept of hypertext, to facilitate sharing and updating information among researchers.[9] While there, he built a prototype system named ENQUIRE.[
Connor M

Internet Education Foundation - 0 views

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    A website focused on gathering the masses of people who take an interest in the web's effects on education.
Julie Lindsay

The Flat Classrooms Debate, Live from Qatar and Philadelphia - Future of Education - 0 views

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    Facilitated by Vicki Davis and Julie Lindsay, this session is a virtual link-up with the Flat Classroom Conference in Doha, Qatar and Educon 2.1 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. This event is also our official kick-off event for our www.FutureofEducation.com interview series, sponsored by the KnowledgeWorks Foundation and with support from Elluminate!
Vicki Davis

Discovery Education | Discovering Diabetes - 1 views

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    This is an example of social entrepreneurship and a new way that people are connecting online. This is a great organization (Discovery - discovery channel, etc.) and they have a great program.
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    My Dad has diabetes as did my grandfather. This is a great program and discovery does things right -- please consider letting your students join this great event. "Discovery Education has launched a program for high school health/science teachers designed to help educate students about Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes. The site includes lesson plans (coming soon), lots of videos and multimedia interactives on digestion, blood glucose and diabetes. To recognize World Diabetes Day on November 14, all students with Type 1 diabetes are encouraged to create videos to "Shout Out" about diabetes and tell their story. For each video submitted, Novo Nordisk will make a donation to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation to help fund research leading to a cure for Type 1 diabetes. Plus, each student who submits a video will receive a free Discovery DVD. "
Steve Madsen

Pink Ribbon connections all tied up - 0 views

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    When the National Breast Cancer Foundation last ran its Pink Ribbon Breakfast campaign it had teams of volunteers pretending to be an online computer system.
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    Possible example of workflow software used for a charity. Might inspire a scene for a video?
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    This article shows how work flow software can enhance productivity for a charity in Australia
Julie Lindsay

Confronting the challenges of participatory culture - 0 views

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    Media education for the 21st century Jenkins White paper McArthur Foundation
Vicki Davis

Siemens We Can Change The World Challenge - 0 views

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    Are your studetns ready to become eco-heroes? Sign up for this. "The Siemens Foundation, Discovery Education and the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) are partnering again this year to educate, empower and engage students and teachers nationwide to become "Agents of Change" in improving their communities through the Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge. This year the Challenge expands to high school, by inviting students in grades 9-12 to join the effort to meet the environmental challenges of our age. This new phase of the Siemens We Can Change the World Challenge kicks off today at an exclusive screening of Discovery Channel's new documentary LIFE at Philadelphia's renowned Franklin Institute in conjunction with the NSTA National Conference."
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    How students are linking to improve the world. Students studying social entrepreneurship as a video topic may want to view what they are doing here.
virginia vereen

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. - 0 views

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    Youtube connects the world online in many ways. One personal example that I have experienced is the Edutopia contest. It connected me and many other youth from around the United States to the George Lucas Foundation.
alex c

History of Google - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • On Wednesday, January 18, 2006, the U.S. Justice Department filed a motion to compel in United States district court in San Jose seeking a court order that would compel search engine company Google Inc. to turn over, "a multi-stage random sample of one million URL’s", from Google’s database, and a computer file with, "the text of each search string entered onto Google’s search engine over a one-week period (absent any information identifying the person who entered such query)."[68] Google maintains that their policy has always been to assure its users privacy and anonymity, and challenged the subpoena. On March 18, 2006, a federal judge ruled that while Google must surrender 50,000 random URLs, the Department of Justice did not meet the necessary burden to force Google to disclose any search terms entered by its users
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    Wikipedia's history of google
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    "Google began in March 1996 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Ph.D. students at Stanford[1] working on the Stanford Digital Library Project (SDLP). The SDLP's goal was "to develop the enabling technologies for a single, integrated and universal digital library." and was funded through the National Science Foundation among other federal agencies"
Kendall Butler

President and CEO Trace Devanny Becomes TriZetto Chairman, Builds on Firm's Healthcare ... - 0 views

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    ""TriZetto has great employees, an agile solution set, and an unparalleled customer base in the healthcare payer and provider markets," said Devanny. "In the months and years ahead, we will build on this strong foundation to help healthcare organizations meet new challenges with new, world-class, technology-enabled solutions. We will continue to actively listen to our customers, letting their voice drive our capabilities, and become a much broader healthcare information-technology company. We will leverage TriZetto's unique assets and capabilities to transform connectivity and collaboration between health plans, providers and consumers. By helping integrate what has been a historically fragmented healthcare industry, TriZetto will help improve the efficiency, cost and quality of healthcare across our country and abroad." To realize this vision, Devanny has stressed five key areas of investment and organizational focus at TriZetto: -- Voice of the Customer, TriZetto's systematic approach to engaging its clients in a strategic dialogue to take customer service and satisfaction to a new level. -- Enterprise Software Solutions, a broad portfolio of flexible and scalable systems to help healthcare organizations improve efficiency and respond quickly in an evolving market. -- TriZetto Advantage Services(TM), comprehensive hosting, business process outsourcing and professional services to help customers meet key business objectives more quickly and with less risk. -- Systematic Health Management(TM), TriZetto's unique approach to population health management that helps customers improve the cost and quality of care. -- Payer- Provider Connectivity, to drive improved efficiency, productivity and collaboration between healthcare payers and providers. "
Ethan Bennett

fcp Citations - 0 views

"W3c." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 03 Dec. 2013. Web. 13 Mar. 2013. "W3C." World Wide Web Consortium (). N.p., n.d. Web. 13 Mar. 2013. "W3C Introduction." W3C Introduction. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 ...

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Niko Hahalis

Commentary & Opinion Commentary & Opinion: Young Kids Need to Learn About Social Entrep... - 0 views

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    Young Kids Need to Learn About Social Entrepreneurship
James Kidd

Introducing Microsoft Windows Workflow Foundation: An Early Look - 0 views

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    Helpful example of companies using workflow software.
marlee mikol

UK government teams with Google and Facebook to bring internet to all - 0 views

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    This article is about how the UK Government will work alongside technology titans including Google and Facebook to help Sir Tim Berners-Lee in his mission to bring affordable internet to all. The Alliance for Affordable Internet founded by Berners-Lee's World Wide Web Foundation received backing from the UK government on Monday, which will help the group reach its goal of bringing affordable internet to 90 percent of the global population that don't have access yet.
Brandon Meszar

FCP Resource 2 - 0 views

  • A remote control is a component of an electronics device, most commonly a television set, used for operating the device wirelessly from a short line-of-sight distance.
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    "Remote Control." //Wikipedia//. Wikimedia Foundation, 03 May 2013. Web. 11 Mar. 2013.
thowar5 h

GNU General Public License - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF) - 0 views

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    License for open-source software sharing
Haley A

National Science Foundation and Workflow Software - 0 views

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    Workflow Software in the study of science.
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