Take a short break to enjoy a performance by the KAIST Mobile Phone Orchestra! |
- Take a short break to enjoy a performance by the KAIST Mobile Phone Orchestra!
- "Visualize This": Nathan Yau's (FlowingData) book about information and data visualization
- Are girls allowed in Google's tool shop? Just wondering.
| Take a short break to enjoy a performance by the KAIST Mobile Phone Orchestra! Posted: 30 Apr 2011 02:46 PM PDT Thanks to CreativeApplications.Net for sharing this video! KAMPO Performance @INDAF 2010 from Sihwa Park on Vimeo. KAMPO KAIST Mobile Phone Orchestra "Mobile phones (especially smartphones), with more advanced features and computing power than those of ordinary telephones, have been revolutionizing our life and culture in a variety of ways. The KAIST Mobile Phone Orchestra (KAMPO) aims to explore this potential of mobile media for music and media art. In addition to suggesting new and innovative mobile performance paradigms through concerts, KAMPO conducts active research/education in music and mobile media as well as software development." -Intro from the KAMPO website http://interactivemultimediatechnology.blogspot.com  |
| "Visualize This": Nathan Yau's (FlowingData) book about information and data visualization Posted: 30 Apr 2011 08:39 AM PDT I've been following Nathan Yau's FlowingData blog for several years. It is one of my favorites. His new book, Visualize This : The FlowingData Guide to Design, Visualization and Statistics, will be out in July 2011, and is available for pre-order on-line on Amazon, Barnes&Noble, and Wiley. I love Nathan's editor's comment about his latest chapter: "Thanks for yet another very enjoyable chapter. If I had known statistics would be like this, I would have actually taken classes"  Here is the plug for Visualize This, from the Wiley website: "Data doesn't decrease; it is ever-increasing and can be overwhelming to organize in a way that makes sense to its intended audience. Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could actually visualize data in such a way that we could maximize its potential and tell a story in a clear, concise manner? Thanks to the creative genius of Nathan Yau, we can. With this full-color book, data visualization guru and author Nathan Yau uses step-by-step tutorials to show you how to visualize and tell stories with data. He explains how to gather, parse, and format data and then design high quality graphics that help you explore and present patterns, outliers, and relationships.
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| Are girls allowed in Google's tool shop? Just wondering. Posted: 30 Apr 2011 07:26 AM PDT Today I read an article in my local paper about Google workshops that provide a few select employees opportunities to create things with state-of-the art "shop" tools. I went on to the Google blog and read the following post: Google Workshops: a place for Googlers to get their hands dirty Are girls allowed? Just wondering. I hope that the percentage of women who access the Google workshops is on par with the percentage of females who are employed at Google. Although there have been efforts to increase the number of females who pursue careers in engineering, computer science, and related technical fields, progress has been slow. If you walk through an "average" high school, you are likely to find that there are few female student enrolled in classes such as computer programming, computer-assisted design (CAD), or engineering technology. RELATED Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering, National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics Engineering Your Life: A guide to engineering for high school girls Get Smart Get WISE (Women in Information Science and Engineering, North Carolina Technology Association) IEEE Women in Engineering NCWIT: National Center for Women and Information Technology "In 2009 women earned only 18 percent of all CS [computer science] degrees. Back in 1985, women earned 37 percent of CS degrees." WEPAN: Women in Engineering ProActive Network Record number of girls to take part in Tech Challenge 2011 Sandeep Ravindran, Mercury News, 4/28/11 Women in Engineering: 21 Remarkable Stories MichiganEngineering, University of Michigan FYI: I am old enough to remember a time when girls were strongly discouraged from taking shop classes. In my case, when I was in high school, I was told that auto mechanics courses were not appropriate for college-bound students. My only option was to take a short powder puff mechanics class in the summer! Despite scoring at the top of the scale on a measure of mechanical reasoning, I was steered towards pursuing a career in a helping profession. http://interactivemultimediatechnology.blogspot.com  |
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