Human Interaction with Technology and Information

Today’s office hour will be from 3:40pm-4:20pm. Sorry for the late notice.

Due to a department meeting at lunchtime today, today’s office hour will be rescheduled. I will be in my office from 10:15-10:45 and from 3:45-4:30.

Would this website be appropriate for determining what qualifies a shade of yellow? I also found one off of this other site.

//This was published using Microsoft Live Writer, I hope it publishes correctly.

-Blake Gideon

bgideon@drew.edu

Within each group, people are listed in the following order according their primary role:

Manager
Programmer
Designer (interface)
Writer (documentation)
[Fifth persons share responsibility in their preferred role.]

Group A:

Emily Capkanis
Robert Gordon
Mike Beideman
Lainie Wilt

Group B:

Anna Forman
Noah Rosenfield
Sarit Ashkenazi
Andrew Schaffer

Group C:

Matt Fingerman
Scott Brandsdorfer
Georgia Cruz
Holly Tarnower
Sami Zavras

Group D:

Jen Dugan
David Sassouni
Jeremy Dery
KC Russell

Group E:

Whitney Chenoweth
Hidehiko Udagawa
Blake Gideon
Amanda Moutner

I’m not sure how many people are supposed to be in each group and whatnot, but I have a fair amount of programming background and technical knowhow. So, I think I would do best in that role in whatever group.

hey, I think I would be most productive as a project manager, but I do have a very little background in programming…. anyone wanna team up?

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From The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 7, 2007

http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/2367/exposing-computer-science-to-the-wider-world

Exposing Computer Science to the Wider World

Although supercomputers have the potential to make significant discoveries in a variety of subject areas, they are often limited in their application because of computer scientists’ ignorance of subjects other than computer science, presenters at the National Science Foundation supercomputer symposium said on Thursday.

Russ Miller, a professor of computer science and engineering at the State University of New York at Buffalo, said university computer-science departments need to recruit graduate students who have undergraduate degrees in diverse fields, such as biology, physics, and humanities. Currently, most computer-science students know a lot about computer science, he said, but not much else.

“They don’t have a broad enough worldview of what they’re doing computer science for,” he said. “So they’re just interested in building the next best computer-science widget and hope somebody is interested in that.”

John Sasso, who works for the New York State Office of Technology, said computer-science departments needed to take students with diverse skills and use them to think creatively when solving problems. It’s too often, he said, that universities teach students how to create a computer program to solve a problem, but not how to identify the problem in the first place.

“Students are being taught to solve things in more of a recipe kind of fashion,” he said.

Install and take a look at the following two software programs:

• Irfanview [www.irfanview.com]
• AXE editor [On the K: drive for this course, in the reserve folder]

On Monday, we’ll talk about this assignment. Be prepared to share observations and/or questions with the class. Your contributions can be about any aspect of the assignment: the installation, the purpose or value of these programs or software like this, features of these programs, or anything else connected to the interaction of people (you) with the software.

Does anyone know how you can undo or find edit in Microsoft Office Word 2007?

Thanks,

Matt