graduate student

ZDNet Resources

• sort by:
• Relevance
• Date
• Popularity

Easier Exploratory Analysis for Epidemiology: A Grad Student 'How-To' Paper

In epidemiology, exploratory analyses of existing data can screen new hypotheses and provide rationale for future studies. Graduate students often perform an exploratory analysis for a dissertation because it is cost- and time-efficient. Exploratory analyses may examine multiple variables and outcomes across strata of data. Thousands of pages of statistical...

Tags: Graduate Student, Analysis, University Of North Texas

White papers 2009-02-27

Graduate Student Taps SmartDraw for A-Plus Presentations

MaryAnne Boorse is a graduate student at Elmira College, which is ranked #6 in "America's Best Colleges" list by U.S. News and World Report. While studying for masters degree in management, MaryAnne needed an easy software program to create graphics for the class presentations. Specifically, Mary was looking for a...

Tags: Graduate Student, SmartDraw, MaryAnne Boorse, Swot analysis, Internet, Marketing Research, Marketing

Case studies 2008-05-08

Additional Resources

WSJ chief criticizes news aggregators - creators carry cost burden

More important...than net neutrality? You are out of your mind. You probably think you are a journalist as well. What a joke. Do you even proof read your own dribble? It's obvious you don't. What kind of journalist would send out content with grammar and spelling errors? it has...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, advertisement, Google Inc., revenue

Discussion threads 2009-10-23

What if my kid went to Dawson's School of Online Learning?

As long as you are not teachingOtherwise they would be in a class called Google101.AcronymsYou gotta be careful about acronyms. SOL is a common acro for s**t-outta-luck. With the D in front, you get: da**-s**t-outta-luck. Not what you should use for a school, is it? And you can't use just...

Tags: E-learning, training and certification, Sol, education, Dawson, online learning, Harvard

Discussion threads 2009-09-28

Google hijacks Internet Explorer with Chrome Frame

IE is already up to the speed... and the plugin enabling it is SilverLight."Hello XAML, and byebye HTML garbage." So says M$.That's sarcasm, right?If not, you know very well that Idiot Exploiter is far more obsolete than any other actively maintained browser. Just like windows.Microsoft will send out and update.Microsoft...

Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Chrome, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Web browser

Discussion threads 2009-09-22

Oh sure...4 days in and Gmail goes down

RE: Oh sure...4 days in and Gmail goes downMy office lost it primary and secondary links to our data farm. We spent the morning without access to our email exchange.The servers are off site for security and redundancy reasons. We are in a location that has all sort...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), E-mail providers, cloud computing, Google Inc., Internet Service Provider, Google Gmail, outage, e-mail

Discussion threads 2009-09-01

10 bits of tech to get for the back-to-school student

RE: Cant digest your idea of promoting speakersAhh I see your point and thought it through. IMHO the best headphones I've ever had are those which came as standard with my BlackBerry. Investing in expensive headphones is again IMHO pointless. Having beefy speakers is a good social tool; sticking them...

Tags: Notebooks, speaker, headphone

Discussion threads 2009-08-10

Poll: Did Microsoft and Yahoo do the right thing?

Poll: Did Microsoft and Yahoo do the right thing?SuccessfulI think that this agreement has the potential to be huge. When you combine all of Microsoft's and Yahoo's page views, you have a lot of people viewing a lot of pages. As an advertiser, having one platform to get...

Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), Managed hosting, cloud computing, SEARCH, Microsoft Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-07-29

Job-seeking college grads may require an extreme social networking makeover

Job-seeking college grads may require an extreme social networking makeoverJob-seeking college grads may require an extreme social networking makeoverI don't know, I think the keg stand pics should stay. It shows that the student can cooperate in teamwork and be social, both of which are good for any employer....

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, job, extreme social networking, Job-seeking college, social networking, network, recruiting, jobseeker, Facebook

Discussion threads 2009-07-27

Five things for students to consider in the new workplace

A simple five-point article which gives the new graduate student an idea of what they should and shouldn't do in the new workplace. Seriousness with a slight element of refined British humour provided by Zack Whittaker

Tags: Workplace, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-07-27

Teams in the (Troubled) Cloud

Not all team members are created equal I’ve had some really interesting briefings/meetings lately. If you want to understand where software executives, industry leaders, etc. are going/thinking, then read on. Let’s begin with a conversation I had with Maynard Webb....

Tags: Team, Team Member, Worker, Maynard, Loyalty, Team Management, Management, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-07-22

StudyX 3.8.3h (Windows)

Remember how much time you spend studying in school? Would you be surprised to find out that there is computer software that can cut your studying time and make studying more fun at the same time? A company called Jeff Computers, started by a Webster University student, has developed study...

Tags: Software, Microsoft Windows, Jeff Computers, StudyX, Tools & Techniques, Games, Management, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2009-07-16

Northern Michigan University Gives High Grades to IBM Cognos Solution

Northern Michigan University NMU, located in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, is a dynamic 4-year, public, co-educational university, which offers a wide variety of programs to nearly 9,400 undergraduate and graduate students. It needed to aggregate data from different sources and obtain real-time, consolidated views of HR, finance, and academic information to...

Tags: Cognos Inc., University Corp., Michigan, IBM Corp., Portals, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Web Technology, Personal Finance, Financial Accounting, Databases, Enterprise Software, Internet, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, Finance

Case studies 2009-07-01

Good enough to pay for, part 2: Microsoft Office

Good enough to pay for, part 2: Microsoft OfficeBecause it was the right tool for the job?Why, because you wrote seven paragraphs of unformatted text and then copy/pasted it to your content manager?Well, then by all means MS Office it is.That was convincing. notWishes versus needsOn the whole, Microsoft Office...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-06-30

Breaking down the laptop wall with conferencing software

I've talked before about the so-called "laptop wall" that an increasing number of college lecturers and even secondary school teachers face. The challenge, of course, is to turn those laptops into learning tools instead of distractions, machines that engage students rather than letting them disengage. Last...

Tags: Distance Education, Clemson University, Information Technology, Student, Laptop Computer, Wall, E-learning, Notebooks, Training And Certification, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-06-22

Scientists envision inflatable alternative to tethered space elevator

An inflatable free standing tower could one day carry equipment and tourists 20 kilometers above Earth, and it could be completed much sooner than a cable-based space elevator, say researchers at York University in Toronto, Canada. They envision a giant tower assembled with a series of modules made up...

Tags: Elevator, Kilometer, Team Management, Cable, Nanotechnology, Network Technology, Management, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Emerging Technologies, Networking, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-06-17

Kindle DX: Bigger screen means higher expectations

Kindle DX: Bigger screen means higher expectationsRE: Kindle DX: Bigger screen means higher expectationsI'm a university professor and have been experimenting with the DX since Friday. This device really has the potential to be a powerful and ubiquitous academic tool- it really is possible to read academic PDFs on...

Tags: Wireless LANs, Kindle DX, screen mean, Amazon.com Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-06-15

Med students should be editing, not using, Wikipedia

Everyone knows I love Wikipedia. Our librarian knows it, regular readers know it, my mom knows it. I defend its value and its place in education as a quick reference, preliminary source, and bibliographic reference on a variety of topics. Properly sourced articles have a great deal of credibility....

Tags: Student, Wikipedia, Wiki, Online Communications, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-06-09

Overcoming the laptop wall

Overcoming the laptop wallSeems fairly simpleIn my opinion, either:Construct the firewall and proxy services of the university properly so that the wireless network that students can connect to is tightly limited on what websites they can access, or potentially only the intranet. Only allow full inet access to hard wired...

Tags: Firewalls, Notebooks, Web technology, laptop wall, laptop computer

Discussion threads 2009-06-04

So how 'bout them universities?

So how 'bout them universities?I'll just reply here . . . Not being the social networking nut that most ZDNet authors are, I'll just reply here, thanks. Don't have twitter, not interested.But I am a student, so I've got a few things to say . . ."Enhancing communication and collaboration...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Literacy, Universities, computer science

Discussion threads 2009-06-03