Check out a new interview with The Tartan at Carnegie Mellon. The article is called “Bookless Libraries Increase Accessibility”: http://www.thetartan.org/2009/11/16/news/libraries
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November 16, 2009
Bookless Libraries
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September 16, 2009
Interesting New Books (9/16/09)
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Here are some new books that may catch your interest. These books are sitting on the New Book Shelf in the E&S Library for your review…
- Open source ecosystems: Diverse communities interacting. / Cornelia Boldyreff. Berlin: New York: Springer. Call #: QA76.76 .S46 O646X 2009
- Architecting software intensive systems: A practitioner’s guide / Anthony J. Lattanze. Boca Raton, FL: Auerbach. Call #: QA76.758 .L3285 2009
- What’s next? Dispatches on the future of science: Original essays from a new generation of scientists / Max Brockman. New York: Vintage Books. Call #: Q147 .W43 2009
- Beautiful security / Andrew Oram, Andrew. Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly. Call #: TK5109.59 .B423X 2009
- Design patterns in Ruby / Obie Fernandez. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Addison-Wesley. Call #: QA76.64 .O456
- Programming groovy: Dynamic productivity for the Java developer / Venkat Subramaniam. Raleigh, NC: Pragmatic Bookshelf. Call #: QA76.73 .G23 S83
- Cryptography: An introduction / V.V. Yaschenko. Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society. Call #: QA76.9 .A25 V85
June 3, 2009
Share Your Publications–Make Them Easy to Find
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“My heart is in the work.” Work the university’s Research Showcase – make it easy for colleagues and scholars to locate and cite YOUR work, immediately and in the future, with no worries about its possible loss, damage or becoming inaccessible as technology changes.
Preserve your intellectual property (all of your hard work: past, present and future publications, working papers, theses, dissertations, etc.) in an open access, searchable, fulltext database. Bepress.com’s Dave Stout will introduce faculty and grad students to Digital Commons, the software behind Carnegie Mellon’s Research Showcase. See how you can submit born-digital documents and other electronic files and as well as older hard-copy documents to http://repository.cmu.edu/.
Friday, June 12
11 am – 12:30 pm
Hunt Library classroom (HL1)
September 23, 2008
Our Carnegie Mellon campus held a memorial yesterday for Randy Pausch. The auditorium was reserved for those who knew Randy the best. There wasn’t enough room for everyone. So most of us settled for watching the live webfeed thanks to ABC News. We even showed the feed live in our Engineering & Science Library during the memorial.
Since Randy was first diagnosed, we all became a witness to something truly remarkable. When he gave his “Last Lecture”, our campus was changed forever–by this one man. His goal was to leave a message for his three children. But in the process, he left sage pieces of advice for all of us.
Many of us took to heart his advice to be willing to be the first penguin to jump into the water, potentially risking utter failure in our occasional risky ventures in our jobs and in life. Even if our act proved to be a failure, Randy reminded us of how important it was to occasionally fail because there’s no better way to learn.
Randy taught us so much about handling life with grace during the most dire of times in one’s life. He left a shining example of how to resist anger and resentment when faced with a limited future. He showed us how important it is to make a point to pause…to see…and to appreciate the small things in our daily lives–to check on a co-worker who’s family member may be having a difficult time, to say thank you when a friend does something small to help us, to make sure our family member knows we love them and that we don’t take them for granted.
Randy also reminded us how important it is to make a choice: are we going to be a Tigger or an Eyeore? Randy and Disney were made for each other. Both together remind us of the importance, even as adults, to occasionally look at things in the world through the eyes of a child–to see the magic, the awe, and the wonder that surrounds us.
So I hope you’ll take a moment to share in our memorial for Randy Pausch. He has left a lasting legacy for his children and at the same time, he has transformed our campus. We will not forget him or the lessons he has left behind.
The Last Lecture: http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/LastLecture/
Carnegie Mellon Memorial: http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/page?id=5754198
Pittsburgh PostGazette article: http://www.postgazette.com/pg/08267/914333-298.stm
September 19, 2008
Join Us in Celebrating Smiley :)
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These days, all of us take for granted the emoticons we use in our emails, chat, and so on. Did you know the first Smiley was created by Scott Fahlman 26 years ago here at Carnegie Mellon?
Join us in our celebration: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/smiley/
I want to mention some other places where Scott and his smiley are mentioned:
FOLDOC: http://foldoc.org/index.cgi?query=smiley&action=Search
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoticon
Make a special point of reading Scott’s history of the Smiley: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/smiley/history.html
July 29, 2008
Herbert Simon and Defining the Computer
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Hunter Heyck has published two articles in the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing on Herbert Simon. These articles are available to the Carnegie Mellon community and anyone else’s university whose library subscribes to IEEE Xplore:
July 25, 2008
It’s a sad day here at Carnegie Mellon. We have lost one of our favorite professors whose “last lecture” garnered the attention of the world. We were immensely proud of him. We learned far more from him than just about computer science. He has left a beautiful and lasting legacy for his wife and children. And as you can see below, his words reached far beyond his original intended audience of his wife and 3 children…
School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
http://www.scs.cmu.edu/news/releases/RandyPausch.html
Carnegie Mellon University
http://www.cmu.edu/homepage/beyond/2008/summer/an-enduring-legacy.shtml
http://www.cmu.edu/news/archive/2008/July/july25_pausch.shtml
Pittsburgh PostGazette
http://www.postgazette.com/pg/08207/899511-100.stm
Pittsburgh Tribune Review
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/breaking/s_579431.html
Wall Street Journal
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121699381188384657.html
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120951287174854465.html?mod=World-News
Gabriel Robins
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/Randy/
Lustgarten Foundation
http://www.lustgartencommunity.org/NETCOMMUNITY/Page.aspx?pid=408&srcid=408
Disney Fans Sharing the Loss
http://www.passporterboards.com/forums/library-books-tv-movies-music/166687-rip-randy-pausch.html
http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1897456&referrerid=93883
CNN
http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/books/07/25/obit.pausch/index.html
Time
http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1826574,00.html
Yahoo
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080725/ap_en_ot/obit_pausch;_ylt=Av15A6UcRFNPQPtc._ZEzz.s0NUE
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
http://www.acm.org/news/featured/pausch
Parade
http://www.parade.com/articles/editions/2008/edition_04-06-2008/1My_Last_Lecture
Chronicle of Higher Education
http://chronicle.com/news/index.php?id=4880&utm_source=pm&utm_medium=en
USA Today
http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2008-07-25-pausch-obit_N.htm
Wired Science
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/07/last-lecture-pr.html
ABC News / Good Morning America
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/LastLecture/
Brown University
http://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/recent_news/randy_pausch_82_loses_cancer_battle_2065.html
April 21, 2008
New Addition to this Post: The Last Lecture is now #1 on the NY Times Bestseller’s list for Hardcover Advice books: http://www.nytimes.com/pages/books/bestseller/index.html.
The Chronicle of Higher Ed points to a library science blog, stating that Randy Pausch’s book has sold out. If you don’t know him, Randy Pausch is a man facing a challenging experience and sharing it with all of us. His original intention was to simply leave a message for his 3 kids. But in the process, he’s touched the whole world:
April 8, 2008
Since we’re all looking forward to the forthcoming Pennsylvania primary, you may want to revisit last summer’s issue of The Bridge, v. 37, no. 2. It is an National Academy of Engineering (NAE) publication and presents opinion and analysis on engineering research, education, and practice; science and technology policy; and the roles of engineering and technology in all aspects of society.
Check out the article by Michael Shamos: Voting as an Engineering Problem.
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