Category: Regenerative Economy

  • Stanford professors create startup to expand high quality university education online

    The Stanford professor whose online computer science course went viral is now at it again.. From Silicon Valley, A New Approach To Education : All Tech Considered : NPR. Related articles Stanford University Students Launch Sites By Hand, A Social Business for Global Development of Personal Websites and Effective Web Solutions (prweb.com) Menlo Ventures’ Pishevar…

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  • Microsoft says social science will be the next frontier of science and technology

    Microsoft Research New England head notes  that social science will be the next frontier of science and technology. Where creativity meets technology – Boston.com   Related articles A New Kind Of Social Science For The 21st Century (lookingbeyondborders.com) What’s Soft about Social Science? (everydaysociologyblog.com) Adventures in Ideas: Which Social Science Should Die? (freakonomics.com) Social Science…

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  • All businesses will become coffee shops

    Given that most functions of a modern business and organizations from education to retail can now be duplicated with $500 worth of computer equipment this article argues that many can now be better managed as coffee shops. In the future, everything will be a coffee shop – Boston.com. Related articles Coffee Expo Seoul 2013 to Provide…

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  • PhD in Personal Health Informatics at Northeastern University

    PHI. Related articles Register for the Public Health Informatics: Model Best Practices Virtual Meeting (medicineandtechnology.com) Clinical Senior Lecturer in Health Informatics Vacancy: University of Manchester, UK (imianews.wordpress.com) The Role of Informatics in The Laboratory (pharmaceuticalintelligence.com) IMIA Yearbook 2012 Available (imianews.wordpress.com) Health Informatics Forum MOOC to Launch (imianews.wordpress.com) Researcher will push emerging field of biodiversity informatics…

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  • Jobs for the Future (JFF) uses online intelligence to find jobs in most demand

    In contrast to traditional survey based means of measuring job growth which can be quite inaccurate  Jobs for the Future’s (JFF)  John Dorrer uses ethnographic/online methods to analyze job postings (mining nearly 100,000 unique online postings for the three months ending February 14) in real time to extract the skills employers are asking for right now, then works…

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  • Built to Last: Obama’s State of the Future 2012

    Obama‘s recent State of the Union highlighted the continued importance of increased development of renewable and clean technologies, job training and education through community colleges and e-learning, healthcare and government systems consolidation, information security and rural broadband access, tax code streamlining and fostering innovative US based companies like Apple. And he is showing how his…

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  • President Obama Drives Government Transparency through State Of The Union Digital Media

    President Obama to Give the Most Interactive State Of The Union Address Ever. Obama’s administration has been a strong proponent of digital media to increase government efficiency, transparency, collaboration and accountability. And tonight’s State of the Union should be no exception.

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  • Kurt Vonnegut: an anthropologist and futurist

    Kurt Vonnegut. He was forced to study biochemistry in college, then attempted to obtain his MA in anthropology however his thesis was rejected as too far out. later when he published books, U Chicago gave him the MA, citing his anthropological style of writing! The world is poorer without him. Related articles Love Letter to…

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