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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...
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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...
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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...
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Apr 1 2021 |
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The twenty-six words that created the Internet Kosseff J., CORNELL UNIVERSITY, Ithaca, NY, 2019. 328 pp. Type: Book (978-1-501714-41-2)
The 26 words in the title refer to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996: “No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by ano...
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Exploring parent use of early STEM media to inform design for children Hightower B., Sheehan K., Lauricella A., Wartella E. IDC 2019 (Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Conference on Interaction Design and Children, Boise, ID, Jun 12-15, 2019) 102-108, 2019. Type: Proceedings
From the first sentence of the abstract: “This paper explores how parents identify and use science and math media to engage their preschool children in informal science and math learning.” Existing research shows th...
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Exploring the ethical, organisational and technological challenges of crime mapping: a critical approach to urban safety technologies Galdon Clavell G. Ethics and Information Technology 20(4): 265-277, 2018. Type: Article
Technological approaches to policing, which began with the use of databases, are becoming more popular. Two driving forces are the ability to integrate many data sources and the allure of using high technology. It appears as though &am...
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Infrastructural inaccessibility: tech entrepreneurs in occupied Palestine Bjørn P., Boulus-Rødje N. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction 25(5): 1-31, 2018. Type: Article
The paper describes how “tech entrepreneurs in occupied Palestine” are hindered by a lack of access to infrastructure. Particular immediate issues are identified: mobility, legal frameworks, payment gateways, and mo...
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Dec 12 2018 |
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Enhancing collaboration in classroom using smartphone in developing countries Iqbal M., Mehmood T. GROUP 2018 (Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Conference on Supporting Groupwork, Sanibel Island, FL, Jan 7-10, 2018) 112-116, 2018. Type: Proceedings
The paper discusses a smartphone application with four features: the presentation of audio quiz questions, optical character recognition (OCR) scoring on a server, record management, and an English dictionary. It was tested with about ...
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Jun 21 2018 |
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Key concepts for a data science ethics curriculum Saltz J., Dewar N., Heckman R. SIGCSE 2018 (Proceedings of the 49th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Baltimore, MD, Feb 21-24, 2018) 952-957, 2018. Type: Proceedings, Reviews: (2 of 3)
Two summaries are presented here: 1) existing ethical codes and frameworks, and 2) high-level concepts listed in the literature....
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May 30 2018 |
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Carebit: A Privacy-Preserving "Step" Toward Remote Informal Caregiving Ghosh A., Ghosh A., Aljallad Z., Aljallad Z., Badillo-Urquiola K., Badillo-Urquiola K., Wisniewski P., Wisniewski P. Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work (Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Conference on Supporting Groupwork, Sanibel Island, Florida USA, Jan 7-10, 2018) ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction, 154-157, 2018. Type: Proceedings
Carebit is an application to help caregivers working with elderly people who are living independently. In practice, the person being monitored wears a Fitbit synced to the Internet. He or she initiates the check-in. The app shows the c...
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