Backup!
Stolen laptop contains cancer cure data | CNET
"Shin and husband Ralf Jankecht, a professor of cell biology at Oklahoma University, are leading cancer researchers at the school. Sunday, they made a quick stop in Oklahoma City on their way back to the lab, according to the local News 9. That's when someone smashed the window of their car and made off with a 13-inch white MacBook in a dark orange computer bag.
"I'm devastated and I feel so guilty," a tearful Shin told News 9.
The pair is now offering a $1,000 reward for return of the computer, no questions asked. "Thief, it is OK. Everybody makes mistakes," reads a flyer that's been posted in area pawn shops."
Computer History
Museum looks at 2000-year history of the computer | Macworld
""Many times, people coming to the museum have very basic questions: 'How did that computer on my desk get there? How did that phone I've used for so long get so smart?' " said John Hollar, CEO of the museum. "It's an exhibition that's primarily aimed at a non-technical audience, though there's a ton of great history and information for the technical audience as well.""
Take a look at the Museum site here: http://www.computerhistory.org/visit/
Tech 911
Google Launches Site for Teaching Tech to Your Parents
"Ever go home for the holidays and find your parents asking you to help them with “techie tasks” like uploading photos to the Internet?
You’re not alone. A bunch of folks over at Google find themselves in this situation nearly every time they visit their families around this time of year. That’s why they’ve launched TeachParentsTech.org, a “tech support care package” that’s meant to help kids teach parents about computer basics."
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"Octothorphe" sounds like a good robot name...
"The term octothorpe was coined by engineers at Bell Laboratories in the early 1960s, who wanted a name for one of two non-number function symbols on the first touch-tone keypads (the other was the *, which they called a sextile). It didn't catch on, and the # key became famous as an ineffectual way of interacting with the robots who work at your bank."
(Via Coudal)
Don’t be surprised…
"Don’t be surprised when kids do extraordinary things. Be surprised when adults are surprised. I expect that children can use computers in deeper more thoughtful ways than school traditionally asks of them. Cute may be a subset of ‘good,’ but is a poor substitute."
The SMART Table: Classroom Desktop Computing
Hmm. Interesting. Reminds me of the Microsoft Surface.
It is hard to form an opinion yet based on an advertisement. I would like to see how this is used within the context of an actual classroom. Also I wonder if the table runs with its own open source operating system, or comes with a proprietary SMART O.S. Most likely I assume the table will function like the SMART Board and can be plugged into a local computer.
What do you think about this?