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Hazeltine, Barrett
Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island
 
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Barrett Hazeltine is Professor of Engineering at Brown University. In 1991-1992 he held the Robert Foster Cherry Chair for Distinguished Teaching at Baylor University. From 1972 to 1992 he was also Associate Dean of the College at Brown. His teaching and research interests are in technology planning especially in developing countries, computer applications, engineering management, and teaching of technology for Liberal Arts students.

He is a graduate of Princeton University and the University of Michigan - Ph.D. - 1962. At Michigan he was in the research group headed by Arthur Burks, who had worked with John Von Neumann at the University of Pennsylvania and at the Institute for Advanced Studies

He has taught computing, engineering, and management at the University of Zambia in 1970 and 1976, at the University of Malawi in 1980-81, 1983-84, and 1988-89, at the University of Botswana in 1993, and Africa University in Zimbabwe in 1996-97 and 2000. He received awards for teaching from thirteen senior classes at Brown, 1972 to 1984, and 1990. In 1985 the award was named after him. He has written papers on digital logic, technology transfer, and engineering education, a textbook on electronic circuit design and a textbook on small-scale technologies.

 
 
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   My robot gets me: how social design can make new products more human
Diana C., Harvard Business Review Press, Boston, MA, 2021. 304 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-633694-42-2)

The subtitle--how social design can make new products more human--is accurate. Most running exemplars are robots, but Alexa and the Roomba robot vacuum and others also show up. We are living in a time when tech...

Nov 23 2021  
   The agile leader: leveraging the power of influence
Šochová Z., Pearson, Boston, MA, 2020. 368 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-366604-28-6)

The author states that The agile leader allows the reader to “sample the various concepts and principles of agile leadership.” Some familiarity with Scrum and agility would be helpful beforehand. Agility basi...

May 21 2021  
   Kings of crypto: one startup’s quest to take cryptocurrency out of Silicon Valley and onto Wall Street
Roberts J., Harvard Business Review Press, Boston, MA, 2021. 236 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-633698-70-3)

Kings of crypto is a fun read about a Bitcoin exchange startup. It begins with a readable exposition of blockchains and cryptocurrencies. Blockchains are basically distributed ledgers that show every pertinent transaction. The l...

Apr 1 2021  
   Multiplatform MOOC analytics: comparing global and regional patterns in edX and Edraak
Ruipérez-Valiente J., Halawa S., Reich J.  L@S 2019 (Proceedings of the Sixth (2019) ACM Conference on Learning @ Scale, Chicago, IL, Jun 24-25, 2019) 1-9, 2019.  Type: Proceedings

Outcomes from a regional massive open online course (MOOC) are better than those from a global MOOC. The best-known MOOCs are global, such as edX, Coursera, and FutureLearn, but regional MOOCs exist. The paper compares the effectivenes...

May 19 2020  
   Assessing students’ IT professional values in a global project setting
Frezza S., Daniels M., Wilkin A. ACM Transactions on Computing Education (TOCE) 19(2): 1-34, 2019.  Type: Article

This paper is on developing a set of questions to assess students’ professional values. The context for the development is a project-based course involving three universities, two in the US and one in Sweden. Values formation...

Feb 25 2019  
   Speed, data, and ecosystems: excelling in a software-driven world
Bosch J., CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 2016. 343 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-138198-18-0)

This book is a masterful exposition of how to develop large software programs, aimed at business leaders but useful to others. “Speed” refers to shortening the time required to get new software to the customer. &...

Sep 14 2017  
   The effect of simulation games on the learning of computational problem solving
Liu C., Cheng Y., Huang C. Computers & Education 57(3): 1907-1918, 2011.  Type: Article, Reviews: (2 of 3)

Students learning problem solving in programming with a game are more likely to be in the flow state, as defined by Csikszentmihalyi [1], than students learning in traditional ways. Students’ intrinsic motivation was also gre...

Oct 20 2011  
   Does IT matter?
Carr N., Harvard Business School Press, Boston, MA, 2004. 208 pp.  Type: Book (9781591394440)

The principal claim of this book is that few organizations can gain a competitive advantage through information technology (IT). IT has become a commodity, entirely necessary for survival, but does not help with strategic differentiati...

Feb 8 2006  
 
 
 
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