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Finite State Machines & Almanac of Higher Education links for 2009-08-27

Finite State Machines (tags: cpsc326 video) http://courses.cs.vt.edu/~cs4114/lectures/6/dfa.pdf intro to dfa. includes diagram of viewing a dfa as a machine that reads a tape. (tags: dfa automaton ppt) PlanetMath: deterministic finite automaton “A deterministic finite automaton (or DFA) is a finite-state deterministic automaton.” (tags: dfa automaton) Almanac of Higher Education – The Chronicle of Higher Education […]

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Python 3.1 & A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2009-08-24

Python 3.1 Release Python 3.1 has been superseded by 3.1.1. You can download 3.1.1. Python 3.1 final was released on June 27th, 2009. Python 3.1 is a continuation of the work started by Python 3.0, the new backwards-incompatible series of Python (tags: programming python download) A place to b on Flickr – Photo Sharing! (tags: […]

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About CPSC 448, Advanced Web Development

This the first semester we’re offering CPSC 448, Advanced Web Development, but the CS department has offered several Web development courses in the past few years. Our students have been getting some Web development experience in terms of using PHP and MySQL in some courses. We also offered CPSC 348, Web Development this summer. It […]

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2009 08 19 ernie web2.0 Comments (0)

New Media at UMW

Stuff for Starving Students A Smorgasborg of Stuff for Students Who Need Stuff digital advice and devices (tags: education free resource students) UMW New Media Center The mission for the UMW New Media Center will be to: develop the idea of “communities of practice” and establish those relationships at UMW foster the development of new […]

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2009 07 28 ernie Interesting Web Sites
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Open Courseware & Death By Audio links for 2009-07-21

Wired Campus: David Wiley: Open Teaching Multiplies the Benefit but Not the Effort – Chronicle.com ” Do we professors, who live rather privileged lives relative to the vast majority of the planet’s population, have a moral obligation to make our teaching efforts as broadly impactful as possible, reaching out to bless the lives of as […]

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2009 07 21 ernie A Place to Bury Strangers
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EFF Teaching Copyright resources

Welcome | Teaching Copyright “EFF’s Teaching Copyright curriculum was created to help teachers present the laws surrounding digital rights in a balanced way.” (tags: education copyright teaching learning fair_use fair-use instruction medialiteracy)

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Internet Research Tips & Internet Turorials

A couple of links surfaced recently. They are about doing research and tutorials for using the Internet.They are worth keeping track of. Internet Research Tips – How To Use The Web To Research A Topic “Searching the web seems like an easy prospect. Take, for example, the person searching who wants to learn how to […]

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2009 07 11 ernie About the Internet and the Web
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Folksonomies, metada, and tagging

Here are a set of links to some authoritative voices on the topics of tags, folksonomies, and metadata in the order I read them. The simplicity of the Web and large amounts of data. As Shirky says – it’s about the links, not the categories. Folksonomies – Cooperative Classification and Communication Through Shared Metadata “This […]

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2009 07 10 ernie About the Internet and the Web
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Open Access, Network Economy

The first two links deal with open access to information. The first is a presented as a parable that tells of an inventor who has a great idea and develops it into a product. However, the truckers, the ones who control the distribution lines will not agree to distribute it unless the inventor signs over […]

2009 07 02 ernie About the Internet and the Web
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Security and password links for 2009-06-30

Two articles from Infoworld. One about the benefits of PGP and the other on password strength. The second includes a spreadsheet for calculating how long it might take to determine a password. Internet crimes to be proud of | Security Central – InfoWorld Thanks to Pretty Good Privacy encryption creator Phil Zimmermann for software that […]

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