You're watching the posts published during the month of October del 2007

  1. Yale and Microsoft Partner on Digital Project / 31 October, 2007

    Readers around the world will soon have online access to thousands of rare books in Yale’s Library thanks to an agreement between the University and Microsoft Corp to digitize many volumes found only in the Yale collections. The Microsoft-Yale project will initially focus on the digitization of 100,000 out-of-copyright English-language books, which will then become […]

    No comments yet | Categories: universities | Author: Ellen

  2. First Internet-scale Programming Courses / 8 October, 2007

    A pilot course taught at the University of Washington has been expanded into a national program that shows students how to program using tens, hundreds or thousands of computers. Google and IBM announced an initiative Monday to promote new programming methods that will help students and researchers address the challenges of Internet-scale applications.
    “This is […]

    No comments yet | Categories: universities | Author: Ellen

  3. On Getting Creative Ideas / 7 October, 2007

    I love Google TechTalks. The newest nugget I’ve watched today is “On Getting Creative Ideas“. It was held on March 14, 2007, the length is 1 hour 10 minutes. This talk is great. The abstract on the Google video site gives information about the speaker: “Murray Gell-Mann is one of the largest living legends in […]

    One Comment | Categories: learning | Author: Andreas

  4. From Nand to Tetris in 12 Steps / 6 October, 2007

    Today I have found a great new Google TechTalk: “From Nand to Tetris in 12 steps. Building a Modern Computer from First Principles” is a course by Shimon Schocken. The length is one hour. The course presents many abstractions, algorithms, and data structures learned in CS courses, and makes them concrete by building a complete […]

    No comments yet | Categories: programming | Author: Andreas

  5. UC Berkeley Launches YouTube Channel / 4 October, 2007

    The University of California, Berkeley, announced that it is making entire course lectures and special events available, free of charge, on YouTube. It is the first university to make videos of full courses available through YouTube. Visitors to the site at youtube.com/ucberkeley can view more than 300 hours of videotaped courses and events. “UC Berkeley […]

    No comments yet | Categories: universities | Author: Ellen