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Getting to know Anne Diekema

Today we have an opportunity to meet Anne Diekema, a new faculty member of USU's Instructional Technology Department. (Brett is away and asked Anne to come to our INST 7300 class.) While working on her dissertation she worked at the Center for Natural Language Processing. She had worked on information retrieval evaluations.
 
We talked about the lack of research about the effectiveness of some digital repositories Take the NSDL, for example. Who's using it? How is it being used? Does its use have any effect?Click here to read more »
Submitted by Thomas Caswell on Thu, 09/18/2008 - 5:10pm
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More hurricanes on the way...

Over the weekend I got involved in a quick Yahoo Pipes project to aggregate Gustav-related volunteering and housing posts from craigslist. We may have escaped the worst from Gustav, but with other hurricanes already threatening, we are trying to stay mobilized to help in other areas. If you are interested, join the Hurricane Information Center Ning community to see what else needs to be done.Click here to read more »
Submitted by Thomas Caswell on Tue, 09/02/2008 - 9:26am
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Superbrowser: Google Chrome is on it’s way

Chrome is coming! Google's open source browser project, is coming out in Windows beta. It will be available here at 2 PM today. This comic by Scott McCloud, creator of the classic Understanding Comics, does a nice job of explaining the technical details. Here is a brief summary:
 
Extreme tab makeover: Instead of traditional tabs below the address bar (like Firefox), Chrome puts the tab buttons on the upper side of the window.
 
Multi-process design: This is said to use “a bit more memory up front” but it splits up the processing jobs of individual tabs. It's similar to the design used in operating systems, with multiple processes happening at the same time. One advantage is that an error that would normally cause your whole browser to crash will now only crash that particular tab. Also, when web pages or plug-ins use a lot of memory, you can spot them in Chrome’s task manager.
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Submitted by Thomas Caswell on Tue, 09/02/2008 - 9:01am
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Submitted by Thomas Caswell on Tue, 08/19/2008 - 9:00am
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