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You Have to Be Able to See the Screen

Dec 13, 2009

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John

in Therbligs
I was interested in extending my “computer” glasses, the ubiquitous reading glasses of yesterday set for the focal length for computer screens and I wondered what everyone else was finding now that computer screens are finally commonplace. I ran across this article “To Work on the Web, You Have to Be Able to See the Screen“. I was grateful to find another person who has done the same research and has also ordered glasses off the Internet.

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This Day in Tech

Nov 22, 2009

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John

in Engineering

Wired has a great engineering and technology list appropriate to the day called This Day in Tech. Check out the site and see a plethora of information from a variety of past years and experiences.
Engineering Resources @ Engineering.com

Sep 7, 2009

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John

in Engineering

Today I was using Engineering.com which has a lot of free tools, an extensive engineering library, directories, and as a result is a online destination for engineers. If nothing else, browse the library, and don’t miss the article on the hovercraft as fall is approaching and as an engineer you don’t expect to use your leaf blower for leaves. Now do you? Sometimes I wonder if we share enough as a discipline so I though I would mention this one resource for you to look at and bookmark.

From the site:

ENGINEERING.com also offers hosted and deployed engineering software and services to manufacturers, design consultants and engineering students around the world. In addition ENGINEERING.com offers the following resources to the engineering community: Free file sharing, ENGINEERING.com Collaboration Suite, News,Careers Section, Library, Software,Education, and Directories.
UofW Computer Science & Engineering Distinguished Lecturer Series

Aug 29, 2009

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John

in Engineering
The public is invited! I believe we are going to attend some of these events. Call us if you are interested in getting together in Seattle at one of these.

CSE Distinguished Lecturer Series
- Thursday, 10/01/2009, 3:30 p.m. in the Allen Center Atrium
  Charles Simonyi, Intentional Software
  Return to the Final Frontier
- Tuesday, 10/06/2009, 3:30 p.m. in the Allen Center Atrium
  Nathan Myhrvold, Intellectual Ventures and Chris Young, Intellectual Ventures
  Cooking in Silico: Understanding Heat Transfer in the Modern Kitchen
- Thursday, 10/15/2009, 10:30 a.m. in the Allen Center Atrium
  Irwin Jacobs, Qualcomm co-founder
  From Cell Phones to Smart Phones to Smart Books – An Exciting Journey
  UW Electrical Engineering Dean Lytle Memorial Lecture
- Thursday, 11/05/2009, 4 p.m. in Kane Hall 120
  Craig Mundie, Microsoft
  Rethinking Computing
- Thursday, 12/03/2009, 3:30 p.m. in EEB 105
  Pat Hanrahan, Stanford University
  Why are Graphics Systems so Fast?
What Do You Want To Be When You Grow Up?

Aug 14, 2009

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John

in Career

I ran across an updated career search feature for Careers After College from the Princeton Review, and although you have to register (but can deselect the usual suspects that will email you everything) you can get to a short list of questions to identify a range of careers. The point to taking the quiz isn’t to give you a definitive answer, but a short list of possible careers that you can research or think about. Especially with the number of career changes we are all going to experience increasing over time.

You Have to Be Able to See the Screen

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This Day in Tech

Engineering Resources @ Engineering.com

UofW Computer Science & Engineering Distinguished Lecturer Series

The public is invited! I believe we are going to attend some of these events. Call us if you are interested in getting together in Seattle at one of these.

What Do You Want To Be When You Grow Up?