Information Sources & Information Sifting Techniques
I am a retired librarian, most recently serving at Indiana Wesleyan University's Cleveland Education Center.
Maria Korolov reports on the status of quantum computing . She focuses on the efforts which encryption vendors are taking to ensure that computer data remain secure.
-DDLabels: Quantum computing
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Lee Bessette writes about digital polorization , and specifically the Polorization Initiative.
-DDLabels: digital polarization, filter bubble
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Sharon Florentine provides examples of how artifical intelligence helps eliminate gender, race and age bias in the hiring process.
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Labels: Discrimination, gender bias
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David Gooblar praises faculty who take the time to revise their courses .
-DDLabels: Curriculum, Revision process
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Johnny Evans suggests how iOS users can maintain privacy using settings found in their device.
-DDLabels: Apple iPad, Apple iPhone, privacy
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Rachel Toor suggests that faculty should avoid sounding stilted when they present a lecture .
-DDLabels: Civility, classroom behavior, teaching
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J. R. Raphael offers 14 types of information known by Google about its users.
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Rob Jenkins explains why he does not edit student rough drafts. What he establishes is a system of peer review in his classroom, and only grades and comments on the student work that has gone through a polishing process.
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Quora contains a thread of conversation about why PCs run slower over time.
The cynic in me says that manufacturers like to nudge people to upgrade their software and hardware every three years, and thus are not diligently working to keep old PCs running at their purchase speed. -DD
Labels: Computer speed, performance
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On December 6, Steven Vaughan-Nichols announced that the Windows command line (which dates back to MS-DOS) was no longer going to be available in Microsoft Windows. Three days later he announced a retraction, observing that the MS-DOS command shell will continue to be available in Windows.
-DDLabels: MS-DOS
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Jon Oltsik suggests cybersecurity initiatives which a new U.S. president should undertake.
-DDLabels: cyber security
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