28 May 2003

Advice for computer science graduates The Fuzzy Blog -- Twelve recommendations for the computer science graduate. Compile required stuff, including multi format CV, personal Web site, blog, and postings to lists. Leverage your email signature. Learn a hot technology. Pitch in on an Open Source project. Be helpful. Don't look only at big companies. Take freelance work to get in the door. Learn the required skills. Learn the hot methodology. Read voraciously in the field. Program every single day. Ask for help. Scott Johnson: I just graduated with a computer science degree x_ref153

Collaborative research with Media Lab Europe HEA ie -- Following up on EdTech 2003, I am seriously looking into collaborative research with Media Lab Europe. Potential projects are evaluated on the following criteria: scientific and technological merit compatibility with overall research programmes of MLE and Irish third level institutions Extent to which they result in demonstrable collaborative activity physically taking place both at MLE and the third level institution. Irish Higher Education Authority: Fund for collaborative research between Irish Third-Level Institutions and Media Lab Europe x_ref153

Weblogs as transformational technology KHM de -- This paper focuses on three questions: How can the weblog format improve discourse? How can weblogs support teaching? What are the institutional benefits of weblogs in universities? Oliver Wrede: Weblogs as a transformational technology for higher education x_ref153

Casual Capture Project HP -- Hewlett-Packard is working on a new consumer photography system that could casually capture terabytes of images from a person's daily life and store them in data centres, where they could later be retrieved for conventional printing. Matthew Broersma: Taking the shutterbug out of the picture HP Labs: translations in hand SmartMobs: The era of sentinent things Roland Piquepaille: HP's 'Casual Capture' Project x_ref1256