Free Education

Free online education from top Universities!

Many of these online courses require you to turn in homework and complete quizzes.  Has anyone taken a Coursera course?  If so, what did you think of it?


Here are a few courses on my short list

• Functional Programming Principles in Scala
• Networked Life
• Computing for Data Analysis
• Web Intelligence and Big Data (this is a huge growth industry!); and of course
• Social Network Analysis

If you've been following my reading list on LinkedIn, you will see a lot of books on community building and human networks.  I find the whole subject of how humans self-organize to be absolutely fascinating.  One book I strongly recommend on the subject is The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell, followed closely by Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives by Nicholas A. Christakis, James H. Fowler.

Happy Learning!

Release the Hounds!

Excellent Marine companions. Check out the video. While they may not be super fast or stealthy - the concept is there. All I can hear is my husband yelling at these AIs like he does the NPCs in his online games!
Joint project with DARPA and the U.S. Marines

Argonne National Labs receives funding for STEM outreach efforts

http://newscenter.iupui.edu/5754/Chicago-State-IUPUI-and-Argonne-get-25-million-for-regional-STEM-center-with-goal-of-increasing-minorities-in-science-careers