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Daily links for 03/18/2011

Posted on March 18, 2011 by Bob Sutor

How To: Founding an Open Source Software Center at a University | opensource.com “Raising open source awareness in any organization is a very important, and sometimes difficult, task. Particularly important is open source awareness among college students. These are the … Continue reading →

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Daily links for 02/16/2011

Posted on February 16, 2011 by Bob Sutor

IBM and Jeopardy Watson on Jeopardy! Day Two: The Confusion over an Airport Clue | A Smarter Planet Blog “How could the machine have been so wrong? David Ferrucci, the manager of the Watson project at IBM Research, explained during … Continue reading →

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Daily links for 12/28/2010

Posted on December 28, 2010 by Bob Sutor

5 More of the Best Free Linux Twitter Clients – Linux Links – The Linux Portal Site “So, let’s explore the 5 Twitter clients at hand. For each application we have compiled its own portal page, a full description with … Continue reading →

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Daily links for 11/16/2010

Posted on November 16, 2010 by Bob Sutor

SugarCRM Joins Open Invention Network as Licensee SugarCRM and Open Invention Network (OIN) today announced the signing of SugarCRM as an OIN licensee. OIN’s mission is to enable and protect Linux. By becoming a licensee, SugarCRM, a leading provider of open source … Continue reading →

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Daily links for 09/12/2010

Posted on September 12, 2010 by Bob Sutor

Schools try algebra on iPad — Joanne Jacobs “Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is piloting the first full-curriculum algebra app for iPad, notes edReformer. More than 400 eighth-graders in San Francisco, Long Beach, Fresno and Riverside will learn on iPads loaded with … Continue reading →

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Daily links for 08/04/2010

Posted on August 4, 2010 by Bob Sutor

Linux skills more in demand than Unix for the first time – 03 Aug 2010 – Computing “Demand for Linux programming skills has exceeded that for Unix programming skills for the first time ever, according to Richard Nott, director of … Continue reading →

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Daily links for 04/28/2010

Posted on April 28, 2010 by Bob Sutor

IBM, Dell Tout Strengths of Their Server Platforms – IT Infrastructure from eWeek “For their part, IBM officials said since IBM’s Migration Factory program began four years ago, almost 2,700 businesses have migrated their workloads onto IBM servers and storage. … Continue reading →

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Daily links for 03/26/2010

Posted on March 26, 2010 by Bob Sutor

Undergrads flock to computer science programs “The total number of undergraduate majors in computer science increased 5.5% in 2008-2009, the second consecutive year that the number of computer science majors has increased, according to the annual Taulbee Survey by the … Continue reading →

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Daily links for 02/20/2010

Posted on February 20, 2010 by Bob Sutor

Stanford mathematician: In reality, simulation is key to math education “A massively multiplayer online game requiring players to employ mathematical concepts could revolutionize the teaching of mathematics at the middle school level, according to Stanford mathematician Keith Devlin. That’s the … Continue reading →

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Daily links for 02/19/2010

Posted on February 19, 2010 by Bob Sutor

Joe Sanchez and Leslie Jarmon – The Educators Coop » Second life Learning Curve “This first video focuses on overcoming the learning curve in Second Life. Over the years I’ve conducted quite a bit of research in this area and … Continue reading →

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Daily links for 02/14/2010

Posted on February 14, 2010 by Bob Sutor

After Frustrations in Second Life, Colleges Look to New Virtual Worlds – Technology – The Chronicle of Higher Education “Defenders of virtual worlds say that’s the important number, showing that the idea of a virtual world for specific activities is … Continue reading →

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