CSU Online Plus – Systems Engineering | Online Master’s Degree – Colorado State University. The field of systems engineering increasingly blends human factors and behavioral science with engineering technologies. Related articles CSU to take a 3-D look at cause and restoration of High Park fire (denverpost.com) CSU hopes to study drilling emissions in Garfield County…
Texas Tech University :: Distance Learning Program. The field of systems engineering increasingly blends behavioral science and human factors with hard engineering skills… Related articles Texas Tech University President Named New President at the University of Alabama (whnt.com) What’s Missing from Project Management in IT (herdingcats.typepad.com) Systems Engineering Body of Knowledge (SEBOK) (herdingcats.typepad.com) What Do…
University of Michigan – Dearborn: College of Engineering & Computer Science. Related articles Does a computer science degree matter anymore? (theneteconomy.wordpress.com) The state of IT education (computerworld.co.nz) Google execs on tour (fijitimes.com) Computer Science @ Khan Academy (adafruit.com) Making Magic With Computer Science and Art (theepochtimes.com) Khan Academy Launches The Future of Computer Science Education…
Intriguing study by SRI for the Dept. of Education that found that over a 12-year span, 99 studies of quantitative comparisons of online and classroom performance for the same courses. The analysis for the Department of Education found that, on average, students doing some or all of the course online would rank in the 59th…
A nice visualization tool, online from IBM as part of their Cognos unit, that taps Census and other data. However presented in a bit of a clunky UI… Many Eyes : Browsing visualizations.
orgnet.com – Social Network Analysis software & services for organizations, communities, and their consultants. The one and only Krebs
Walt Disney Expert Uses Science to Draw Boy Viewers – NYTimes.com.
‘ An excellent article in Businessweek highlights the fact that Social networks like PatientsLikeMe let people take charge of their own care—changing the nature of drug research and the practice of medicine Related articles Deals of the Week Ponders PatientsLikeMe and Empowerment (invivoblog.blogspot.com) Merck to draw on social network for psoriasis patients (fiercebiotechit.com) Merck’s partnership…
After decades of sometimes ineffective Western psychological methods, increasingly more psychologists are turning to anthropology and cross cultural approaches to understand the human mind. This one practices in Western Mass… Mind Power – The Boston Globe. Related articles Mind is the Cause of Confusion (shambhala.com) The Wind Never Lies (madinamerica.com) How Meditation Can Make You…
Not exactly rocket science but Chemgenex has developed a nice mashup of mapping for clinical trials searching instead of the usual process of dumping them in Clinicaltrials.gov and hoping some patient or researcher finds them. Novel use of web 2.0 in Pharma clinical trials | Pharma Strategy Blog. Related articles Is clinical quality assurance…