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- 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
- Harvard study leads liberal pushback
- And passing this would be the "first shot" of the next civil war..Passing rubbish like this is whats going to ultimately make this country fall. The federal government, under the 10th Ammendment, has no business telling their citizens that they [b]must[/b] have health insurance. That is a state right and...
- Tags: Financial Planning, HEALTHCARE, Benefits, commy, insurance, Harvard, hospital
- Discussion threads 2009-09-18
- Will online education kill the university?
- More to Harvard than the ClassesWhile I'm a big proponent of online and hybrid courses, I don't think that the residential college will go away entirely. People go to places like Harvard and Yale not just because they might learn more (and they might, depending on a lot of...
- Tags: Harvard, education
- Discussion threads 2009-09-16
- Time to get bullish on SOA, IT, and the economy
- Times of turmoil always equate to times of new opportunity. As I've said before time and again, the current rough-and-tumble economy is really a time for SOA -- and information technology in general -- to shine, to prove their mettle. Yes, I am well aware of the...
- Tags: Enterprise Software, Harvard, IBM Corp., Information Technology, Joe McKendrick, Management, Middleware, Sandy Carter, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), SOA, Software, Strategy, Web Services
- Blog posts 2009-03-08
- Not only green, efficient, but now cheaper
- LEDs are the new plastic, the new black, the new new thing. Harvard has done research that will provide a much cheaper way to make the Gallium Nitride components that make LEDs what they are. I live out here in the boondocks and I'm already seeing LEDs with...
- Tags: Light-emitting Diode, Harvard, Engineering, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-01-30
- Harvard's Charlie Neeson raises Constitutional questions in RIAA litigation
- Harvard's Charlie Neeson raises Constitutional questions in RIAA litigationPoints two and three are dubiousMind you, I tend to take the US Constitution a lot more literally than the US Supreme Court has during my lifetime, but..."Congress has violated the Constitution by putting the prosecution of a criminal statute in the...
- Tags: Charlie Neeson, Constitution, Harvard, RIAA, RIAA litigation, U.S. Congress, litigation
- Discussion threads 2008-10-29
- Harvard's Charlie Nesson raises Constitutional questions in RIAA litigation
- In a major development in RIAA litigation, Prof. Charles Neeson of Harvard Law School is charging that the RIAA's tactics are an abuse of federal process and that the law on which the litgation rests -- the Digital Theft Deterrence and Copyright Damages Improvement Act of 1999 -- is unconstitutional....
- Tags: RIAA, Harvard, Litigation, Business Operations, Richard Koman, Government, Financial Accounting, Finance
- Blog posts 2008-10-29
- Personal information of Harvard grad students compromised
- Personal information of Harvard grad students compromisedDoes that include Dollar Bill?and his cronies . . .
- Tags: Harvard
- Discussion threads 2008-03-14
- Personal information of Harvard grad students compromised
- Harvard's graduate school of arts and sciences said that roughly 10,000 individuals may have had their personal information compromised by a security breach. The intrusion was discovered in February, according to a Harvard statement released Wednesday. Of the 10,000 affected, 6,600 got a year's worth of free...
- Tags: Personal Information, Social Security Number, Harvard, Social Security, Operational Accounting, Security, Government, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-13
- Microsoft defends Facebook stake
- Microsoft defends Facebook stakeIt is all about HarvardBallmer is a Harvard boy. This article points that out but fails to mention that the founder of Facebook is also a Harvard boy. Bottom line, the investment looks less like an arms length deal that is best for shareholders and more like...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Microsoft Corp., Harvard, Bill Gates, Facebook
- Discussion threads 2007-11-05
- Photos: Bill Gates goes to Harvard
- In a commencement speech at Harvard, the world's richest dropout urge efforts to end the world's inequities.
- Tags: Harvard, Bill Gates, photograph
- Image galleries 2007-06-07
- Gates to Harvard grads: pay it forward
- Gates to Harvard grads: pay it forwardGates to Harvard grads: pay it forwardWell deserved, congrats go out to Bill Gates. This shows what hard work, dedication, and a vision of the future can get you. We should all strive to be like him.I'll agree to that. And...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Bill Gates, Harvard, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-06-07
- Gates to finally get his Harvard degree
- Gates to finally get his Harvard degreeLets hope the stage will "Crash" when he walks upjust like all that crap OS he forces everyone to use. Bill Gates doesn't deserve *ANY* honors. He made billions off crappy OS programs that people were forced to buy because Gates' company...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Bill Gates, Harvard
- Discussion threads 2007-03-26
- Gates to finally get his Harvard degree
- Bill Gates will be commencement speaker at Harvard and finally receive his honorary degree from Harvard, IDG reports. Gates arrived at Harvard as a freshman in 1973 and while there got to know Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s CEO, who lived just down the hall. Gates had already...
- Tags: Harvard, Bill Gates
- Blog posts 2007-03-23
- There's little chance Eclipse will suffer the same mistakes as Java
- There's little chance Eclipse will suffer the same mistakes as JavaHarvard? Get Real That Sad Institution is SinkingSun use to stand for Stanford University Network and the author of this article is pulling our legs in implying that Harvard has any notion what-so-ever in what it takes for a technology...
- Tags: Java development tools, OPEN SOURCE, Eclipse, Harvard, JCP, Sun Microsystems Inc., Java
- Discussion threads 2007-03-12
- Internet gangs hire students for cybercrime
- Internet gangs hire students for cybercrimelicensing"Do you want to play nuclear war?" was a film out of Seattle about 10 years ago where a young hacker somehow got into a Department of Defense computer system that controlled the US nuclear silos. I can't cruise by Ketron Island without thinking about...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Social Security, Internet, Bill Gates, computer, Harvard, U.S. Department of Defense
- Discussion threads 2006-12-08
- Harvard prof holds law class in the virtual world of Second Life
- Harvard prof holds law class in the virtual world of Second LifeI've been considering itI teach online courses and have considered running a chat session in second life. But the problem has always been with any chat session setting a time when everyone can get together. They take...
- Tags: law class, Harvard, Second Life
- Discussion threads 2006-10-09
- Harvard prof holds law class in the virtual world of Second Life
- As if a virtual world created by its residents wasnt wacky enough, a quirky Harvard professor has announced hes going to hold a law class there, reports The Harvard Crimson. Harvard Law professor Charles R. Nesson is offering a course called "CyberOne: Law in the Court of Public Opinion,"...
- Tags: Second Life
- Blog posts 2006-09-28
- YouTube, Facebook: Is billion dollar Internet land rush fools' gold?
- YouTube, Facebook: Is billion dollar Internet land rush fools' gold?The culture reflects the businessThe commentary about these companies' valuation is certainly valid, as we haven't seen most of them prove they can leverage their huge following to actually make money. But it's kind of funny to see the WSJ...
- Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Facebook, Internet-land, Harvard, YouTube Inc.
- Discussion threads 2006-09-21
- Ellison reverses $115 million Harvard donation
- Ellison reverses $115 million Harvard donationlarry ellison...just one more indication that the guy is one of the world's biggest slimeballs!Ellison is quite a piece of work...That don't impress me much.Why a piece of workSummers essentially gets forced out because he says men and women are different with different aptitudes, and...
- Tags: Gender and diversity, Warren Buffet, donation, Larry Ellison, Ellis Abramoff, Harvard
- Discussion threads 2006-06-28
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