Author: timbatchelder

  • RPI Information Technology: Master’s Program in HCI, ethnography

    RPI Information Technology: Master’s Program. Related articles Is your iPad keeping you up at night? (networkworld.com) Your Tablet and Smartphone Could Be Ruining Your Sleep (hothardware.com) RPI scientist: LEDs on runways could help airports (troyrecord.com) RPI increase sees FIT payments rise to 45.4p (evoenergy.co.uk) mStoner blog – Social Media and Advancement: A Report on Data…

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  • MIT Media Lab: Reality Mining

    MIT Media Lab: Reality Mining. Related articles Electric car that that folds itself launches in Spain (reviews.cnet.com) MIT’s Media Lab Brings Watching Movies at Home to a Whole New, Immersive Level [Video] (bostinno.com) New MIT Media Lab’s invention promises more immersive TV viewing (InnovationToronto.com) A camera that can see around corners (cnn.com) MIT Media Lab’s…

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  • State is thinking big on energy

      State is thinking big on energy – The Boston Globe. Great article on what MASS has invented, and will.. Related articles MassChallenge’s tech, energy & consumer product startups (slideshow) (bizjournals.com) How New York Is Going Green (abcnews.go.com) Why Boston Is One Of The World’s Smartest Cities (fastcoexist.com) Boston TechStars Fall Session Kicks Off With…

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  • Books That Make You Dumb

    Books That Make You Dumb – Brainiac. Hilarious. For the first time we can analyze which books correlate with a lack of cognitive performance by combining Facebook + SAT scores mashups. Related articles Music vs Smarts: Can music make you dumb? (NoiseMadeMeDoIt.com) Multitasking Is Making You Dumb [Infographic] (businessinsider.com) Yahoo! iQ Can Turn You Into an…

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  • NYU Stern Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences website actually looks halfway cool

    NYU Stern | Department of Information, Operations, and Management Sciences. Similar to NYU’s interactive media program, it also has what looks to be a very nice IS program which is well described on their site, unlike others which look like a Best Buy Geek Squad counter. Might be worth giving some examples to other sites…

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  • Which MBA? | The Economist

    Which MBA? | Which MBA? | The Economist. This is the first real study on distance learning for business schools which takes into account quality. It ranked U Miami‘s school the best plus a bunch of European schools. Related articles MBA vs. NBA: How Do Business Titans & Marquee Players Stack Up? [INFOGRAPHIC] (epicasports.com) India…

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  • How Email Brings You Closer to the Guy in the Next Cubicle

    How Email Brings You Closer to the Guy in the Next Cubicle. This article shows basically how those who barrage others with amazingly well thought out and detailed emails tend to rise to the top of organizations while those who suck at writing and utilizing email networks generally don’t. Related articles Death to telephones, the…

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  • Don’t just stand there, think

    Don’t just stand there, think – The Boston Globe. This interesting article discusses the new fields of social neuroscience, emobodied cognition, which is based on the early work I studied as an undergrad (Lakoff ) Math is binary because humans as bipedal. Related articles Medical humanities & cognitive neuroscience: transdisciplinary openings & endeavours (medicalhumanities.wordpress.com) Obama,…

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  • Job Search | one search. all jobs. Indeed.com

    Job Search | one search. all jobs. Indeed.com. If you’re reading this at work, maybe you’re bored with your job, so why not search Indeed.com for something new? It spans job Web sites, newspapers, and company career pages by keyword and location to fit your needs. Related articles Want to see Indeed at SXSW? Rock…

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  • IT/Information & Decision Solutions (IDS) at P&G

      IT/Information & Decision Solutions (IDS) jobs at P&G.   In looking at how different companies run their information functions and how IT is developing I studied the new IDS model at PG Information and Decision Solutions. Technology is shifting from the Systems title to Business and Solutions titles.     Related articles Symmetria Software…

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  • Curriculum Innovation and Tech Babson College

    Curriculum Innovation and Tech | Offices and Services | Babson College. The Babson CITG group is a good example of how a university does e-learning. Related articles How Babson’s Marketing Has Made the Word ‘Entrepreneurship’ Its Own (bostinno.com) Babson College flooded with ‘entrepreneurship’ definitions (bostonherald.com) Boston’s summer accelerators: Babson Summer Venture Program (slideshow) (bizjournals.com) StartupBLVD…

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