If I want to learn more about how researchers in bioinformatics develop software, a good place for me to start would be to talk to Rachel Brem, whose interaction with software is described as follows (in MCB Fall 2006 MCB Transcript): To mine data-sets, Brem nearly always writes her own software. “I have a pathology […]
Friday’s talk by Volker Wulf at the “Friday afternoon seminar on designing for specific communities of practices prompted me to look up a number of concepts and people, including: Etienne Wenger home page Network of practice – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Community of practice – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Habitus – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
There is a call for proposals for what promises to be a highly intriguing future-of-the-library conference on the Berkeley campus: The LAUC-B 2007 Conference Planning Committee is seeking proposals for break-out sessions for the upcoming LAUC-B conference on the theme of “Academic Library 2.0”. The conference will be held November 2, 2007 at the Clark […]
I’m looking forward to reading Scott Rosenberg’s Dreaming in code : two dozen programmers, three years, 4,732 bugs, and one quest for transcendent software. I remain optimistic about Chandler, a next-generation Personal Information Manager (PIM) integrating calendar, e-mail, contact management, task management, notes, and instant messaging, though it’s hard to do so after reading Joel […]
Two words from the second half of Spotlight on Web 2.0 12-8-06 1-5-07 FridayLive! TLT Group Online Institute resonated with me: self-service disaggregation In the session, I also learned about the course ETEC 527: Technologies for Instructional Delivery. To dig deeper into digital humanities, I will read A Companion to Digital Humanities, ed. Susan Schreibman, […]
I’ve been inspired by reading Wikinomics over the holidays to engage in a much broader range of collaboration. For a taste of the book, read the series of excerpts in the Globe and Mail (for example, globeandmail.com: Part 7: ‘Us’ power) or keep up with the weblog.
In doing some basic thinking about ERP at universities, I found the following references helpful: Enterprise resource planning – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia provides a good generic summary. Open source ERP InfoWorld Analysis 2005-08-08 By Oliver Rist: Does open source help out in the ERP space? I would think so in the long term. But […]
As I try to sort through the hype of SOA, I found the following articles useful reads over the holidays: CIO Blogs – Is SOA Another Fake Path to IT Agility? . Yes, designing reusable services is not an easy process. I think that people need to learn how be discriminating “consumers” of services before […]
CNI2006fall EDUCAUSE CONNECT has some good interviews to listen to get a feel for the national IT scene in higher education. Mashups mix data into global service : Nature is a one-year old article on mashups in scientific computation: Will 2006 be the year of the mashup? Originally used to describe the mixing together of […]
I’m rather sympathetic to the view that IT Architects Must Write Code — or at least should be capable of writing prototyping code. I find A Conversation with Werner Vogels quite an inspiring picture of what we might be able to build at UC. Rice University News & Media: Rice University and IBM will collaborate […]