Last update: Sunday 5/24/15 @ 11:05 am
This week's cover = photo/graphic from tweet that Senate fails to resolve extensions of Patriot Act surveillance ... Other top stories = Google develops OS for IoT ... Tech coalition urges Obama: no backdoors to encryption ... and Jay-Z defends Tidal
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 5/23/15 @ 12 noon ... Links to previous editions of the Dozens can be found ==> Back issues.
Cover Story ++++++++++++
Here's everything you need to know about the Patriot Act debate: http://cnn.it/1LtRv6G ... DLL Editor's note -- This story also covered by NY Times, Bloomberg, National Journal
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A. HBCU Media ... Half Dozen + 3
New Study Finds No Progress in Increasing Black Faculty in Chemistry http://www.jbhe.com/2015/05/new-study-finds-no-progress-in-increasing-black-faculty-in-chemistry/ …
Prairie View A&M receives $98,000 gift from Lockheed Martin in support of S.T.E.M. programming. http://hbcudigest.com/post/119446160936/prairie-view-lockeed-martin-stem …
Black Caucus Announces Tech Diversity Push @DiverseIssues http://diverseeducation.com/article/73016/ via @twitterapi
#HigherEd #Technology #HigherEdTech
Good teachers use technology to stimulate motivation!!! http://ift.tt/1c6rDB7
Congrats to Dr.R.Washington,Dr.W.Shumate &Mr.L.Williams,writers of $500K NSF grant to enhance our STEM prog..http://redriverradio.org/post/wiley-college-marshall-lands-national-science-foundation-grant … Thanks
DLL Storify of Black Founders Twitter Chat with Brian Clark on Tuesday 5/19/15 http://ift.tt/1efjwE4
Congressional Black Caucus seeks measures to improve tech diversity http://usat.ly/1S4zYqd via
DLL Storify of Bronx Tech Meetup -- Monday 5/18/15 http://ift.tt/1IOaCZC
The latest issue of #EdTech: Higher Education is here! Topics — #Cloud #collaboration & more: http://www.edtechmagazine.com/higher/magazine/issue/2015/05/spring-2015 …
As rich universities get richer, are poor students being left behind? @insidehighered http://bit.ly/1IRjLAp
Video series explores 'Personalized Learning,' though authors don't like the term: https://shar.es/1rksdV
If you missed #GoogleEduOnAir, don’t worry. Sessions are available on demand so you can watch anything you missed: https://youtu.be/9Ls6x8N-Pvg
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.@colab Selects Fourth Cohort of Game-Based Edtech Startups http://bit.ly/1BeygYZ
#HigherEd #SharkTank? Mark Cuban (@MCuban) invests in #analytics solutions that keep students in school: http://tech.mg/7S8bT5
.@LearningHouse Acquires @Acatar to Help Universities Offer Online Resources #edtech http://bit.ly/1PuhiS3 ... DLL Edito's note -- This story also covered by Inside Higher Ed,
Inside IES Research | Jumpstarting Innovation in Education Technology through SBIR http://ow.ly/3xSUdE ... DLL Editor's note -- This story also covered by EdSurge,
Competency based ...
New Graduates Test the Promise of Competency-Based Education https://shar.es/1rx9bL via @chronicle
MOOCs, online, blended ...
4 Unusual Online Bachelor's Degrees http://ow.ly/N8tdh via @USNews
Top Story #1 ... Google develops OS for iot +++++++++++
Google reportedly developing "Brillo," an OS for the Internet of Things http://cnet.co/1JEHxk3 ... DLL Editor's note -- This story also covered by Ars Technica, CNET, Fortune
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Top Story #2 ... Coalition urges no back doors +++++++++++
Apple, Google and 140 others ask Obama to reject ‘backdoor’ access to encrypted data http://onvb.co/zYvR3FF ... DLL Editor's note -- This story also covered by NY Times, Wired, Mashable, TechCrunch, Re/Code, Ars Technica, CNET, The Verge,
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Heads up, your tweets are showing up in Google searches again. http://on.recode.net/1c39zbf ... DLL Editor's note -- This story also covered by Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, TheVerge, VentureBeat,
Icahn urges Apple to pursue cars, TVs and another stock buyback by @DelRey http://on.recode.net/1EeMdpy ... DLL Editor's note -- This story also covered by Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal
Artificial Intelligence, robotics ...
This AI is freakishly smart http://bloom.bg/1F4RTUX by @mappingbabel
The newest battlefield in the War Against the Machines is the poker table http://wrd.cm/1K6xq5B
Uber gutted Carnegie Mellon’s top robotics lab to build self-driving cars http://theverge.com/e/8386872?utm_campaign=theverge&utm_content=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter …
Big data, data analytics, machine learning, etc, etc, etc
- The $10 Hedge Fund Supercomputer That’s Sweeping Wall Street via @Bloomberg http:buff.ly/1FB14lC featuring @AskSensai
Josh Jones-Dilworth Cybersecurity, privacy, & cybercrime ...
Logjam: How to tell if your browser is vulnerable. http://www.computerworld.com/article/2924848/malware-vulnerabilities/logjam-how-to-tell-if-your-browser-is-vulnerable.html … .. DLL Editor's Note --- This story also covered by Wired, Wall Street Journal,
New documents reveal an NSA plan to deliver malware through the Google Play store http://theverge.com/e/8397856?utm_campaign=theverge&utm_content=article&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter%23# … DLL Editor's note -- This story also covered by Mashable,
Too Embarrassed to Ask: What Is Two-Factor Authentication and Why Do I Need It? on.recode.net/1PYT79s
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.@PSUEngineering network compromised by cyberattacks: http://bit.ly/1eaPDVt
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Top Story #3 ... Jay-Z defends Tidal ++++++++++++
Jay-Z Speaks Up (finally), Freestyles about haters, Freddie Gray, Mike Brown & Trayvon http://bit.ly/1PuchsB #tidal ... DLL Editor's note -- Blavity has video and lyrics ... This story also covered by The Verge, TechCrunch,
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Help use Data to Solve Tech's Diversity Issue. Support .#ProjectDiane. More Info: http://bit.ly/1EMyQNY
Apply to be a @BlackGirlsCODE Summer Camp Lead #Tech Instructor in #NYC, Raleigh-Durham, Washington DC & Bay Area - http://buff.ly/1IRP2mV
Featured at @blackenterprise's 2015 Entrepreneurs Summit @Jopwell uses tech to drive diversity http://goo.gl/xyr1Ln
College Board and @Codeorg are working together to improve diversity in computer science http://buff.ly/1Hh5VDs
Coding & Coders ...
Udacity retweeted
Possibly the most amazing list of programming resources ever: https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome … #listoflists
Learn to crunch big data with R http://buff.ly/1AicTuM
50 CSS and JavaScript Tools, Frameworks and Libraries from 2015 http://ow.ly/2YP5H3
Comprehensive learning path – Data Science in Python http://buff.ly/1EZXV99
Node.js and io.js Merge Under the Node Foundation http://ow.ly/2YP5Gu
Java at 20: How it changed programming forever. http://buff.ly/1c83hXR
Don’t believe anyone who tells you learning to code is easy http://on.tcrn.ch/l/pecq
"3 Reasons To Attend a Hackathon" by @tfogo http://tinyurl.com/mlh-3-reasons #hackathon #hackers #hh #tech @MLHacks
Does Technology in the Classroom Ever Get in the Way of Learning? @nytimes http://nyti.ms/1Ki3WEY #edtech
What to learn in college to stay one step ahead of the computers, by Robert Shiller. http://nyti.ms/1dp704U
.@POTUS went from zero to 100K real quick http://tcrn.ch/1Jtm2T7 ... DLL Editor's note -- This story also covered by NY Times, Mashable, Wall Street Journal, Wired, Gizmodo, Bloomberg, The Verge,
Welcome to @Twitter, @POTUS! One question: Does that username stay with the office? #askingforafriend
Watch Peter Dinklage sing triumphantly about Tyrion Lannister surviving @GameOfThrones: http://f-st.co/4o9j9Kb
Star Trek fan gives William Riker the hilarious, strange TV show he deserves http://theverge.com/e/8412722?utm_campaign=theverge&utm_content=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter …
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Long form ... good reads ... :-)
Long form ... good reads ... :-)
Bad news for IT: Robots and AI are coming for white collar jobs too http://zd.net/1zXd5PZ @gcnichs
How the iPhone crushed BlackBerry—a tragic, riveting read by @jacquiemcnish and @SeanSilcoff: http://www.wsj.com/articles/behind-the-rise-and-fall-of-blackberry-1432311912 …
Hack Education Weekly News http://dlvr.it/9wppL5
An oral history of Industrial Lights & Magic. http://long.fm/ZZY2lrA (by @frenchalexm / howiekahn_, @wired)
Strategies for remaining gainfully employed in an era of very smart machines: http://s.hbr.org/1ekIt11
All of the events that announced this week can be found on the DLL's calendar ==> HERE
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