"TECH Dozens" -- Week Ending Saturday 1/31/15

Last update: Sunday 2/1/15 @ 12:08 am

This week's cover = photo/graphic from tweet that Apple had best quarter in corporate history

... Other top stories ==> Jay-Z bids $56 million for streaming company ... FCC raises broadband speed ... and Facebook's big profits from mobile

Below find links to the Digital Learning Lab's "Dozens" of favorite news items about HBCUs' use of information technology to enhance their teaching, research, and community services ... plus news about hackathons and issues related to coding & coding literacy... in HBCU media and Tech media ... for the week ending Saturday 1/31/15 @ 12 noon ... Links to previous editions of the Dozens can be found ==> Back issues.

A. HBCUs | B. Ed Tech | C. Gen Tech | D. Hackers | E. Views | F. Events ... TECH 2014

"TECH Dozens" -- Week Ending Saturday 1/24/15

Last update: Sunday 1/25/15 @ 12:49 am

This week's cover = Photo of President Obama giving his SOTU 2015

... Other top stories ==> Dr. King's birthday celebration ... Microsoft introduces Windows 10, Surface Hub, and HoloLens ... and Pervasive breaches of cybersecurity

Below find links to the Digital Learning Lab's "Dozens" of favorite news items about HBCUs' use of information technology to enhance their teaching, research, and community services ... plus news about hackathons and issues related to coding & coding literacy... in HBCU media and Tech media ... for the week ending Saturday 1/24/15 @ 12 noon ... Links to previous editions of the Dozens can be found on ==> Back issues.

A. HBCUs | B. Ed Tech | C. Gen Tech | D. Hackers | E. Views | F. Events ... TECH 2014

Directory of HBCU Computer Science Programs -- 1.7 forthcoming

Last update: Thursday 1/29/15 @ 9:07 pm

Version 1.7A can be found ==> HERE

DLL Storify of Open House at Civic Hall, NYC -- Tuesday 1/20/15

Last update: Tuesday 1/21/15 @ 3:25 pm 

Personal Democracy Media announced the Civic Hall project in November 2014:

"In short, what people told us was they want a home base, a gathering place that provides a physical space that is more intensive than a weekend hackathon, but less structured than a start-up incubator."

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Fortunately for the rest of us, Dr. King was not just a man of great wisdom, but a man whose mastery of the written and spoken word enabled him to share his wisdom in a manner that made his sharing one of the unforgettable experiences of our lives. So on this day that we celebrate his birth, perhaps the best tribute we can render is to listen to some of what he said and read some of what he wrote, yet again ... (Note: this page first posted on this blog in 2012)

"TECH Dozens" -- Week Ending Saturday 1/17/15

Last update: Sunday 1/18/15 @ 3:31 am

This week's cover = photo from tweet that Facebook will open source its cutting edge deep learning tools ...

... Other top stories ==> 

VP Biden announces $25 million  cybersecurity career training program for 13 HBCUs ... EDUCAUSE reports top 10 IT issues in 2015 for higher ed ... and IBM's most powerful mainframe

Below find links to the Digital Learning Lab's "Dozens" of favorite news items about HBCUs' use of information technology to enhance their teaching, research, and community services ... plus news about hackathons and issues related to coding & coding literacy... in HBCU media and Tech media ... for the week ending Saturday  1/17/15 @ 12 noon ... Links to previous editions of the Dozens can be found ==> Back issues.

A. HBCUs | B. Ed Tech | C. Gen Tech | D. Hackers | E. Views | F. Events ... TECH 2014

Directory of HBCU Computer/Information Sciences and Support Services Programs -- Version 1.2

This directory has been replaced by Version 2.0

DLL Storify of Hive is Five Hackathon -- Friday 1/16/15

Last update: Saturday 1/17/15 @ 10:12 am

According to its Website, Hive Chicago is a network of 57 local member organizations across the city of Chicago that was launched by the MacArthur Foundation five years ago. Hive Chicago provides a citywide context for youth to learn and connect in ways that new technologies now make possible, anytime and anywhere. The celebration of its fifth anniversary was a two day affair. The second day was a civic hackathon that was held at the headquarters of Blue 1657. The DLL Storifyed Day 2 by capturing tweets from participants that used hashtags = #hivebuzz or @HiveChicagoBuzz  ... Storyfies of other #DiversityInTech events are listed in the DLL's Archives

Black America Needs More Oaklands

Revised: Thursday 2/11/16

From time to time during the last few decades governors, mayors, and corporate nabobs all over the country have launched initiatives that were supposed to develop local versions of Silicon Valley. So far the results have been disappointing. A few months ago (in late 2014) a group of black community leaders in New York City launched a promising initiative called "Silicon Harlem." Although I'm greatly impressed by the array of talent that has lined up to support this program, I'm discouraged by the explicit reference to Silicon Valley as a model. To my way of thinking, Oakland California provides a far more promising template for America's Black Communities.

"TECH Dozens" -- Week Ending Saturday 1/10/15

Last update: Sunday 1/11/15 @ 9:13 am

This week's cover = logo for the International Consumer Electronics Show a/k/a CES2015 .

... Other top stories ==> Intel will invest $300 million to diversify ... Pew survey shows who uses which media ... and FTC wants privacy & security built into Internet-of-things

Below find links to the Digital Learning Lab's "Dozens" of favorite news items about HBCUs' use of information technology to enhance their teaching, research, and community services ... plus news about hackathons and issues related to coding & computational thinking in HBCU media and Tech media for the week ending Saturday 1/10/15 @ 12 noon ... Links to previous editions of the Dozens can be found at ==> Back issues 

A. HBCUs | B. Ed Tech | C. Gen Tech | D. Hackers | E. Views | F. Events ... Tech 2014

Police Violence and Accountability

Last update: Wednesday 1/7/15 @ 7:32 pm

DLL Editor's Note -- Below find a group of tweets that were posted in the "Views" section of the 12/6/14 edition of "HBCU Tech" magazine. The tweets provide links to informative articles about police violence against unarmed black males and their lack of accountability for the injuries and deaths inflicted on their victims.  I am publishing these notes again in a separate post in order to make them more accessible to the readers of this blog. From time to time I will add additional tweets that link to other references of comparable quality.