Posts Tagged ‘ Education ’

Messing with OpenStreetMap

Some people might not see the reason for a project like OpenStreetMap when there are plenty of good mapping products and services laying around. I am not one of them. Whenever I use a GPS, I think quite a bit about it’s inner workings. How does it figure out which route is best? How does [ READ MORE ]

Good talk about DSL construction in JS

Neat talk, should remind everyone about the joys of doing cool stuff in the browser. Plus, it made me think about DSLs in general which is good because of all the Scala goodness I’ve been messing around with recently. The talk is on InfoQ. [ READ MORE ]

Thoughts on different types of data

At work, my title is the Data Warehouse Manager. Mostly, I work with numbers. Lots of test scores, checklist data, compositve variables and the like. Numbers are cool and they can often yield plenty of insight. However, numbers are not the only story that can be told! So much of business intelligence right now focuses [ READ MORE ]

Podcasts I now listen to

I commute to work. Unfortunately, there is no way to carpool so I end up driving about 80 miles a day alone. Still, I drive a very fuel-efficient Honda Fit and try not to feel too guilty about the fuel consumption considering that I use very little. So, with all that time spent on the [ READ MORE ]

Design approaches in technology enhanced learning

One of the more in-depth papers that I’ve recently encountered is a really cool paper on the many things that go into figuring out and improving upon technology-enhanced learning. It’s really a very good discussion not just on learning, but about educational thought in the context of design, technology and the sciences. The paper, Design [ READ MORE ]

Tech, higher education and the Indian job market

I read a brief little paper on the train last week about technology in post-high-school education. While four pages (not counting references) is a bit short for such a rich topic, the scope of discussion has been significantly narrowed to the central theme of business. The paper is entitled Impact of IT on Higher Education [ READ MORE ]

Getting philosophical about learning and computers

In what has to be one of the most philosophical CS papers I have ever encountered, a team of researchers from Brazil and Luxembourg have presented a fascinating overview of many issues surrounding the area of computer-based learning. In their paper, Redesigning Computer-Based Learning Environments: Evaluation as Communication, they make reference to everything from psychology [ READ MORE ]

Open Source in Schools

This afternoon I read a really thoughtful paper about Free/Open Source Software in schools published in the Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology. As an aside, the CJLT has a really solid collection of papers and I look forward to paging through them in the coming months. Anyway, this paper, Open Source Software and Schools: [ READ MORE ]

VirtualBox to QEMU

  • February 21st, 2008
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Recently, I had cause to convert a VirtualBox virtual machine to one compatible with QEMU and KVM. A quick search found me multiple methods for converting an image QEMU -> VirtualBox but nothing helping me to go from VirtualBox -> QEMU. After asking on the PLUG mailing list, I got some help and managed to [ READ MORE ]

One Less Quarter, Another Dollar

  • December 6th, 2007
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Seeing as how classes have been canceled today, it would seem that I have completed the Fall 2007 academic quarter. While this is most certainly something to get excited about, I have a few more obligations until I can walk away. For the next few days, these are my projects: Finish my thesis proposal. It’s cool [ READ MORE ]

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Jonathan E. Magen is a passionate developer who loves cooking and writing clean code. Star Trek is cool, too. Also, books. Many things are actually really great and Jonathan likes them as well.

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