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Pedagogy 2.0: Is Education The Key To National Security?
Last Updated on Thursday, 10 March 2011 Written by Dr. Douglas E. Hersh Tuesday, 08 March 2011
Will a “man on the moon” strategy of investment in educational technology lead to an era of unprecedented economic prosperity for the United States? The Obama administration thinks so, and is putting its money where its mouth is in its 2012 fiscal year budget with a proposed $90 million education research initiative modeled on DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency that was instrumental in the invention of the Internet. On February 4, 2011, the administration proposed the creation of a new agency called the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Education, or ARPA-ED.
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tech grants: Indian Tribes & Community Colleges
Last Updated on Thursday, 05 May 2011 Written by Juri Brilts Tuesday, 01 March 2011
I subscribe to a Grants.gov e-mail list for new announcements for various federal grants. Since I receive daily announcements regarding a variety of grants from multiple agencies, I am struck with the fact that there are so many grant opportunities for Indian tribes.
tech grants: On Being A Proposal Reviewer
Last Updated on Thursday, 10 February 2011 Written by Juri Brilts Wednesday, 02 February 2011
Many years ago, I was asked to be a proposal reviewer for the California Arts Council. I remember that I was selected to be on the “Artist in the Schools Panel,” which had an allocated amount of $250,000 for that year’s funding. There were five of us reviewers selected to be on this particular panel. We were each mailed forty-five proposals, which we had to screen and rank according to the proposal criteria given us by the Arts Council staff.
Web Principles: OpenID, AtomPub, XML Failed. Is NoSQL Next?
Last Updated on Thursday, 10 February 2011 Written by David Hammond Monday, 31 January 2011
Microsoft's Dare Obasanjo, who is known for his scathing critiques of technology trends and products, including some of those promoted by Microsoft itself, has just written a blog post analyzing why OpenID, AtomPub, and XML on the Web (including XHTML and SOAP) have failed as technologies.
In his conclusion, he sees a common issue with all three: they were each designed to solve a specific niche problem, but they were promoted as if everyone should be using them. In the end, adapting those technologies for other uses proved too complex and didn't give the benefits they were supposed to deliver.
Finally, he mentions "NoSQL" (a buzz word meaning non-relational databases) as something that developers should analyze with these lessons in mind. Will NoSQL end up joining this list of failures? Let's take a look.
Tech>Protect: PCI Compliance Strategies
Last Updated on Wednesday, 26 January 2011 Written by Donald Hester Tuesday, 25 January 2011
From time to time I get interesting or pertinent questions from clients, colleagues and readers. I like to post the answers on my blog because I think more people may have the same question. Here's a recent dialogue regarding Payment Card Industry compliance:
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