Randy Burge: These three help prime young minds
By Randy BurgeTribune Columnist
April 17, 2006
In this spring season celebrating the new cycles of life, my thoughts turn to our young people.
No doubt, recent headlines about record dropout rates in our nation's high schools raise concerns about worthy futures for many former students, challenging our society for bold remedies.
But amid the turbulent news, we must recognize the positive and plentiful examples of greatness among our youth.
Three examples of greatness (and bold remedies) can be seen through the young people participating in the New Mexico Supercomputing Challenge and with New Mexico MESA (Math, Engineering and Science Achievement) and with the Explora Science Center and Children's Museum.
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ACM's Report on Globalization and Offshoring of Software
The Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) has released an excellent report on Globalization and Offshoring of Software. The report looks at this trend from a global view rather than a country view and provides insights into how New Mexico software-related companies and employees can prepare/leverage competitively.Globalization and Offshoring of Software:
A Report of the ACM Job Migration Task Force
http://www.acm.org/globalizationreport/index.htm
UNM's Dr. Roli Varma, PhD, was a member on the report's international task force.
http://www.unm.edu/~varma/
Where's Our Competitive Edge?
Unquestionably, America today is the world’s R&D powerhouse. There are, however, disturbing indications that U.S. dominance in science and technology is starting to wane. More and more ideas are being generated in laboratories outside our country.By Senator Jeff Bingaman
TechComm
December 05/January 06
We can no longer take the supremacy of America’s scientific and technological enterprise for granted because other nations are on a fast track to overtake the United States in discovery and innovation.
A number of mid-course corrections, new policies, and additional investments will be needed to put us back on the solid path of scientific preeminence which this nation has enjoyed since World War II.
It goes without saying that one of the basic policies of our nation’s economic security must be to maintain a sustained investment in science and technology. There is no dispute that science, and the technology that flows from it, are duly recognized as the principal engine of our economic growth.
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Cubicles: The great mistake
Even the designer of the cubicle thinks they were maybe a bad idea, as millions of 'Dilberts' would agree.Fortune Magazine
By Julie Schlosser,
FORTUNE Magazine
March 22, 2006: 2:03 PM EST
NEW YORK (FORTUNE Magazine) - Robert Oppenheimer agonized over building the A-bomb. Alfred Nobel got queasy about creating dynamite. Robert Propst invented nothing so destructive. Yet before he died in 2000, he lamented his unwitting contribution to what he called "monolithic insanity."
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Snipped from the MISP list: Jared Tarbell - Mar 22nd
Internationally Recognized Artist and Programmer Jared Tarbell - March 22. Free to NMMAUG Members and students (with ID) and only $5 to others. You really don't want to miss this. He is doing amazing work.The New Mexico Adobe User Group (formerly Macromedia) is proud to present Jared Tarbell next Wednesday, March 22 at TVI's Smith Brasher Hall Auditorium. Time is 6:30p - 8p.
Jared is an internationally acclaimed digital artist/programmer. He will be presenting "Self-Making"--dynamic, creative and visually compelling works of art created through programming with Adobe Flash.
Check out his websites at: http://www.levitated.net and http://www.complexification.net .
If you have any questions please call 345-3994. For general information you can visit the NMAUG website at http://www.nmaug.net.
