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Bill Genereux

Building a Bridge Between Engineering and the Humanities - The Chronicle of Higher Educ... - 0 views

  • Acquiring the habit of overcoming habitual perception is one process that brings engineering and the arts together.
  • engineering sometimes works not by satisfying recognized needs but by creating the needs it satisfies.
  • empathy is what literature, above all, is good at teaching
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  • Empathy creates better people and better technical innovations for people to use.
  • Boosting enrollments in STEM is not enough
Bill Genereux

OpenSim - 0 views

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    An open source 3-D virtual world engine.
Bill Genereux

Search engines never forget - 0 views

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    Poor choices made online can stay with you for a lifetime
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Twitter's Performance Problems Explained By a Twitter Engineer - 0 views

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    Shows how important good network infrastructure can be.
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Andy Carvin's Waste of Bandwidth: Alan Alda on Science, Improv and Richard Feynman - 0 views

  • I was interested in seeing these improv games would be useful to improve the communications skills of these young scientists. Every one of those young people last night, you could see how much they loved what they were talking about.
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      I want Alan Alda to share his improv games with the rest of us. I think this could be very useful in engineering education.
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Wired 8.04: Why the future doesn't need us. - 0 views

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      This is happening already. Look at automated trading on Wall Street.
  • because human work will no longer be necessary the masses will be superfluous, a useless burden on the system.
  • exterminate the mass of humanity.
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  • reduce the birth rate until the mass of humanity becomes extinct
  • they may decide to play the role of good shepherds to the rest of the human race.
  • These engineered human beings may be happy in such a society, but they will most certainly not be free. They will have been reduced to the status of domestic animals.
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BizEd Magazine | Technology - 0 views

  • Researchers in the United Kingdom are currently investigating how people use their smartphones, tablets, laptops, and desktops at work and at home as part of the project "Creativity Greenhouse: Digital Epiphanies.
  • The U.K.'s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council is funding the project.
  • Mauthner wants to find out whether some are beginning to reduce their screen time and "change the ways in which these technologies blur the boundaries between work and the rest of their lives."
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Engineering Education Service Center - 0 views

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    Two K-State Salina students won the Eng. Tech. Category of the ABET poster contest promoting STEM careers.
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Facebook's Gone Rogue; It's Time for an Open Alternative | Epicenter | Wired.com - 0 views

  • Facebook isn’t about respect — it’s about re-configuring the world’s notion of what’s public and private.
  • that doesn’t mean the company has earned the right to own and define our identities.
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    Looks like a cool opportunity for software engineers to come up with something that provides similar services without the creepiness
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