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Visions of cloud computing and Web 2.0, circa 1990s: the world catches up to Yale's David Gelernter

The question is not 'What can software engineers build?' but 'What do users need?' by Joe McKendrick

Tags: Software, Web, Yale University, Vision, Web 2.0, Tools & Techniques, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Internet, Management, Hardware, Joe McKendrick

Blog posts 2009-04-29

Get matriculated at Apple University (updated)

Apple has hired Joel Podolny, Yale's business school dean, to start "Apple University," according to the WSJ. The company declined to provide details about the university or the position. Mr. Podolny will be stepping down as dean on Nov. 1, but will stay at Yale until year end,...

Tags: Yale University, Apple Inc., Retail, Jason D. O'Grady

Blog posts 2008-10-23

Law school deans bash site as racist, 'descpicable'

After the fallout from a the Washington Post story on AutoAdmit - a no-holds-barred message board for law students that hopefully is not indicative of the quality of Americans future lawyers - two top law school deans have condemned some of its practices as being racist and homophobic, reports the...

Tags: SECURITY, AutoAdmit, Yale University, attack

Blog posts 2007-03-13

Yale to post courses on Web for free

Yale to post courses on Web for freeFree but no benefitDoesn't sound like its free it it cost $755k with no credit to a degree. More can be learned by reading FREE book from the library.Lectures are a breakthroughMIT put a lot of material on the internet, but...

Tags: Benefits, Web, Yale University, lecture

Discussion threads 2006-09-21

Yale to put course videos online

There's nothing more mentally stimulating than hearing the words of a dynamic lecturer, and now Yale University is offering some of its courses for free on digital video, reports Reuters. Along with the videos that can be downloaded from the Internet, Yale will offer transcripts in several languages, in...

Tags: Yale University

Blog posts 2006-09-20

Stanford economist named Yale: consumers would save with telco tv

Stanford economist named Yale: consumers would save with telco tvThey are doing it overhere NetherlandsAnd it can save you a decent buck, especially if you venture into triple play (telephone, internetaccess and TV) with one of the vendors (actually cable companies are also allowed to be telco's). I've seen estimates...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, telecommunications company, Yale University, Stanford

Discussion threads 2006-04-18

Stanford economist named Yale: consumers would save with telco tv

My colleague Marguerite Reardon reports on a study by University of California at Berkeley economist and information systems pricing specialist Yale Braunstein that envisions big consumer savings if phone companies are allowed to compete with cable companies for television services. Like Verizon's FiosTV, for instance- which is pictured at the...

Tags: Braunstein

Blog posts 2006-04-18

Yale women demand stand on gender controversy

Yale women demand stand on gender controversyWhat a crock...The petition calls for Levin to not only criticize Summers, but to improve opportunities for women on the Yale campus.... They demand he says what?So much for free speech. .. "but also to implement policies that would make Yale a leader in...

Tags: Gender and diversity, enrollment, women, Yale University

Discussion threads 2005-02-22

AW Chinese-English Hieroglyph Dictionary 1.0 (Mobile)

Chinese-English Hieroglyph Dicitonary. Contains Chinese characters (Big5), Mandarin pronunciations in pinyin, Cantonese pronunciations in a modified version of Yale, English definitions. 5395 entries.

Tags: Yale University, Mobile, AbsoluteWord, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2002-12-15

ConsultEZE 1.0 (Windows)

Developed because for engineering, legal, CPA, and consulting projects, usually the client wants the daily billing hours described in their internal language, not some canned set of project steps or phases to which the client cannot relate. ConsultEZE generates billing which includes statements and invoices on your letterhead.

Tags: Yale University, Billing, Microsoft Windows, Consulting, ConsultEZE, Outsourcing, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting

Software downloads 2000-12-15

Additional Resources

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

Americans do not agree on global warming

From alarmed to dismissive, all over the American map Americans are all over the map on global warming. A survey by Yale and George Mason University researchers found Americans deeply split, and placed the various general public opinions about climate change into six general types. ...

Tags: Global Warming, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-05-19

YouRenew wants to pay you for recycling your tech

It's good to know that many entrepreneurs are still molded at an early age, despite all the doom and gloom that young people have been pelleted with for months along with the rest of us. Yale University student Rich Littlehale, 22, has founded a company, YouRenew, that...

Tags: Phone, Recycling, Cell Phone, YouRenew, Rich Littlehale, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2009-05-13

PPoPP 2009 Day 2: Are most programmers stupid?

PPoPP 2009 Day 2: Are most programmers stupid?Yale Patt is being foolish.You cannot ignore the factors of time and money. In the real non-ideal world, their are many practical considerations that cannot be avoided.Most programmers are average, which may not be good enough for "Yale Patt" but it is...

Tags: Development tools, programmer, PPoPP 2009 Day 2, Yale Patt

Discussion threads 2009-02-20

PPoPP 2009 Day 2: Are most programmers stupid?

The second day of the PPoPP 2009 conference started with a controversial keynote by Yale Patt from the University of Texas at Austin. It was so controversial, for me at least, that I decided to wait a few days to calm down before writing about it. He had three main...

Tags: Software, Hardware, Programmer, Programming, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2009-02-20

Former Palm CEO to resign from board of directors

Donna Dubinsky, former Palm CEO and one of the company's original founders, is planning to resign from her seat on Palm's board of directors. The recent $100 million equity deal with Elevation Partners also included the right for the investment group to appoint...

Tags: Board, Palm Inc., Board Of Directors, Donna Dubinsky, Elevation, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-02-04

Jive Software Increases Market Share by 80%, With 15% Growth in the Most Profitable Segment

Jive Software solutions provide the support for hundreds of Web sites around the world. The company's base of more than 2,000 customers is extremely diversified, ranging from small businesses to industry leaders, including more than 15% of the Fortune 500 and major organizations such as Intel, Nike, National Instruments, T-Mobile,...

Tags: Software, Oracle Corp., Tools & Techniques, Web Site Development, Management, Internet

Case studies 2009-02-01

IT jobs outlook for 2009: The good and the bad

A depressing string of layoff announcements across the corporate world has gotten 2009 off to an inauspicious start. So what do the trends mean for IT employment in 2009? Here’s a sober look at both the good signs and the bad. â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"- ...

Tags: Job, Layoff, Information Technology, Salary, Strategy, Recruitment & Selection, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Jason Hiner

Blog posts 2009-01-27

Another reason to love Linux: SiCortex offers high-performance computing in an astonishingly energy-efficient format

If you're looking to supplement your trading floor applications, business analytics infrastructure or Internet site capacity, SiCortex has a proposition for you: a 72-processor high-performance Linux platform with CPUs that use just 0.6 watts of electricity each. In other words, this is a high-performance computer that is designed to use...

Tags: High-performance Computing, High-performance, SiCortex Web Site, Linux, Leadership, Data Centers, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-12-29

Shill Filler: How Apple killed Macworld Expo

Shill Filler: How Apple killed Macworld ExpoApple should remember it's friendsGreat article I thing I agree with you whole message, as a dirty foreigner I think Apple needs to rethink MacWorld San Fran, forget the rest but we need one show a year where developers, channel, key users and user...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-12-18