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10 Dec 09

Open Source Is Trending Towards Customer Obscurity

  • we’re fast approaching the point where open source to software will be like JIT to automotive manufacturing
  • open source is not a value proposition in its own right.
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04 Nov 09

Is the U.S. Killing Its Innovation Machine? - Harvard Business Review

  • Government-funded basic and applied research at U.S. universities has given rise to multi-billion-dollar industry after multi-billion-dollar industry. It has been one of the pillars of the U.S. high tech sector. But at least in information technology, the model has been seriously weakened by changes that the administration of George W. Bush instituted at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which in the prior 30 years had bankrolled some of the most important advances in IT. Specifically, DARPA under Bush drastically reduced the role of universities in IT research projects it funded and shifted both power and money to companies. If the old DARPA model is not restored, the U.S. lead in IT — especially in software — could be lost
  • many factors gave the U.S. a competitive advantage in the commercialization of emerging technologies. They included: An unrivaled university system A relatively free domestic market that honed the competitive skills of its companies A robust venture capital and IPO market that fueled and then rewarded winners Clusters.
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CS Education in the States | blog@CACM | Communications of the ACM

  • when Kansas the Board of Regents decided to eliminate computing courses from the core student requirements, we could weigh in with the State. ACM and CSTA sent the board a letter External Link recommending that they put computer science back in the core.

Study shows improvements in quality of open source code | Applications - InfoWorld

  • Four projects have been granted top-level Rung 3 status, after resolving defects discovered during Rung 1 and 2, Coverity said. They are Samba, tor, OpenPAM, and Ruby.
16 Sep 09

HP funds Purdue work to recruit, retain engineering students, develop new teaching model

HP funds Purdue work to recruit, retain engineering students, develop new teaching model

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UAB Wins NSF Grant to Train Teachers to Use XO Laptops

  • The goal is to extend XO laptop use beyond word processing and Internet searches and to help increase the number of minority students entering the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) career pipeline
  • The UAB researchers will work with fourth- and fifth-grade teachers to develop STEM curricula for use with the XO laptops and evaluate the effect on student learning and teacher and student confidence in using the computers. Researchers also will assess the change in students' interest in STEM careers. The project will reach 160 teachers and 8,000 students and their families, Cotten said.
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