[Edu-sig] ACM Urges Obama to Include CS as Core Component of Science, Math Education

[kirby urner]

Very timely Michel, excellent tracking.

I worked a juicy quote into my blog that very day:

http://controlroom.blogspot.com/2008/12/more-musings.html

Given Portland, I'm needing to "sell Python" in connection with GIS
topics (PostGIS, ESRI... Ecotrust), i.e. the ambient culture is really
into urban studies, planning as a discipline.  This is pretty easy to
do though, i.e. Python has a niche in these realms.  Plus there's a
lot of good geometry tie-ins, which helps my curriculum gain traction.

As I was just writing to CFO yesterday:

"""
There's this company Immersive Media that makes these interesting
recordings using 11 cameras on a post (dodecacam).  They mount these
on top of cars and drive them around cities, recording street views,
maybe you've seen one (I have).  Some months ago, a professor from the
University of Rochester, former student at Reed, made a pilgrimage
back to Portland, visited me, and took me to a meeting with the CTO of
this company.
"""

Then I sent her a link to this blog post:
http://worldgame.blogspot.com/2008/12/google-street-view.html
(dodecacams in action)

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/industry/4232286.html

Another window into our Silicon Forest, one of many,

Kirby

PS:  the thing with my DirecTV is this tree that shares a corner with
my satellite dish:  under the snow's weight, it has drooped to
intercept all signal, depriving me of the complete immersion
experience (we're cocooned for the snow-in)  :)

2008/12/23 michel paul <mpaul213 at gmail.com>:
> http://www.acm.org/press-room/news-releases/obama-education
>
> "Computing education benefits all students, not just those interested in
> pursuing computer science or information technology careers," said Bobby
> Schnabel, chair of ACM's Education Policy Committee (EPC).
>
> Yes we can!  Yes we can!  Yes we can!
>
> - Michel
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