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[uwnews.org | RSS news feed: news releases about UW Schools, Departments, and Units: Engineering, College of | University of Washington] uwnews.org | Nike+iPod Sport Kit raises privacy concerns ...: A more sophisticated system uses a matchbox-sized computer with wireless Internet access to record multiple users' whereabouts, send the information to a central server, plot people's locations using GoogleMaps and alert the person doing the tracking with an e-mail or text message.

[The Empire Zone] Lofty Goals in Higher Education - The Empire Zone Blog - NYTimes.com: If we took a fifth of the DOD’s budget and spent it on education, that would do the trick, all we have to do is cut down on the number of nuclear subs and other useless cold war gadgetry. I know that’s not up to Spitzer, but it oughta be done, and maybe once democracy resumes it will be.

[dorkbot pittsburgh] dorkbot pittsburgh archives: He is fascinated by elegantly simple technology and dynamic behavior, and he seeks to balance his love of gadgetry with the expressive needs of the work. The talk will include a short overview of past projects, then zoom in on current work, presenting both technical and artistic rationales, and culminate in a live demo during the break.

[Chowk Articles] Chowk: Education: Pakistan's Universities - Problems and Solutions: As one indicator, performance scores of Pakistanis on the US Graduate Record Examinations, which test subject basics, are miserably poor compared to students from India or China. For example, of the 56 M.Phil and Ph.D students who recently took the physics exam from the best physics department in the country - that at Quaid-e-Azam University - none was able to get even a semi-respectable score in this entry-level examination.

[ASIABIZBLOG] Irrational Exuberance 5, or, Should You Enter the China Market ...: A direct sales force with which I have some personal acquaintance provides desks only to the office staff and only a handful of the most senior sales directors. Vans, leased by the company in a dozen cities and driven by professional drivers, meet the sales force at an agreed upon location before work begins, drive them to the target region and then return them to the point of origin at the end of the day.

[Almanac - University of Pennsylvania] 12/16/08, January AT PENN Calendar - Almanac, Vol. 55, No. 16: interactive mobile installation showcasing artist Charles Hobbs' ongoing interest in light, motion and the recreation of natural phenomena through low-tech gadgetry; International House;

[CQ Midday] CQ Weekly - Small Wars, Big Changes: It would probably scale back its plans for a lightweight new class of vehicles and other high-tech gadgetry in the $200 billion Future Combat Systems in the interest of diverting some of that money to personnel accounts and battlefield supplies needed now. There would be additional procurement costs associated with maintaining war stocks of materiel not only for U.S. forces but for the foreign militaries and militias the United States would equip as partners.

[MarylandMedia] "Do Web Designers Need Degrees?" as seen on MarylandMedia: I’m not even sure if teaching on the college level is even something that I want to do as it will likely equal more work and lower pay, but it’s definitely something I’m interested in and here’s why: If the technical aspects of a college education actually prepared students for the web design industry, the question of whether or not a degree is worthwhile would be much easier to answer. I’d like to be one of those instructors that make that degree worthwhile and I hope that more industry professionals will do the same.

[dannychoo.com - Your portal to Japan] Office Attire: didn't last though since she was originally from Australia and had to go back after their summer break.

[Nicholas D. Kristof] Your Comments on my Education Column - Nicholas D. Kristof Blog ...: Unfortunately, in an age where children are becoming more and more social isolated and infected by gadgetry, the internet, and addiction to entertainment rather than learning-this is becoming more and more difficult. I would highly advise you to review your .... A 25% chance of being fired (not just from your school, but the teaching profession in its entirety) is a pretty scary gamble for a 22 year-old college graduate looking for some semblance of job security. ...

[Confessions of an Aca/Fan: The Official Weblog of Henry Jenkins] Confessions of an Aca/Fan: Archives: I Was a Teenage Terrorist ...: Some of my friends in the MIT administration have urged me to use my influence with students to warn them that it is not appropriate to play games or do hacks at the Logan Airport, which, after all, needs to be on hyper-alert because it was the site where the airplanes took off on 9/11. So let me be clear: I don't think it would be appropriate for any student to intentionally seek to deceive an airport official into believing that they were wearing a bomb or carrying a weapon.

[CNET News.com - Business Tech] Home gadget to study your sleep patterns | News Blog - CNET News: In an effort to boost its tech economy, Ireland is plunking money into research and development with the intent to commercialize interesting ideas. Overall, Ireland wants to double the number of Ph.D.s that graduate in the hard sciences by 2013.

[Bits] Is Google Violating a California Privacy Law? - Bits Blog ...: “You can make money without doing evil”…quoted from Google’s “Philosophy - 10 Things Page”…blatantly avoiding a law and hiding Privacy Practices from consumers (let’s be honest, why would they not have it on the front page other than to make sure that not everyone would see what they are tracking - only those who purposefully search it out will read it) sounds pretty evil to me…

[Hour of the Time] Hour of the Time » Blog Archive » HOTT Newslinks - 06/27/09-PM: He was formerly my professor and then my colleague at the Claremont School of Theology and in the Department of Religious Studies at Claremont Graduate University, where he taught from the late 1950s until he retired 15 years ago. His wife will surely be somewhat amused to find that he had been moonlighting as the “senior economist for the World Bank.”

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