Foreign Professionals: U.S. Tech’s Other Pipelines – Version 1.0

Last update: Friday 1/6/17 

This note is a supplement to the DLL's "Best States for American Black, Hispanic, Asian, and Female Tech" report (December 2016). It examines changes in the distribution of foreign professionals in the tech sectors of the 50 states plus the District of Columbia between 2010 and 2015.

This report will be modified in response to comments, suggestions, and corrections that we receive from our readers ... :-)

TECH Dozens -- Week ending Saturday 12/17/16

Last update: Sunday 12/18/16 @ 2:30 pm

This week's cover =  Bill Gates  and other tech billionaires commit $1 billion to clean energy venture fund ... Other top stories = Trump's tech summit in his Tower ... Facebook fights fake news??? ... White House blames Putin for election hacks

... Last TECH Dozens & Daily in 2016 ...

The Digital Learning Lab's favorite tweets about how HBCUs and other organizations are promoting skills that yield more diverse employment opportunities and more diverse entrepreneurial opportunities in information technology (#DiversityInTech) ... plus tweets about significant innovations in Ed Tech and Info Tech ... Big news, interesting stories, insightful comments, and good reads ... for the week ending Saturday 12/17/16.

A. HBCUS | B. Ed Tech | C. Info Tech | D. Hackers | E. Views | F. Chuckles

Calendars:  #EdTech and #DiversityInTech 

Top Stories 2015: Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4

TECH Dozens -- Week ending Saturday 12/10/16

Last update: Sunday 12/11/16 @ 2:30 pm

This week's cover =  CIA reports Russian hackers tried to help elect Trump  ... Other top stories = R.I.P. John Glenn, America's foremost astronaut hero ... Microsoft's AR/VR announcements at WinHEC conference ... Computer Science Education Week with "Hour of Code"

The Digital Learning Lab's favorite tweets about how HBCUs and other organizations are promoting skills that yield more diverse employment opportunities and more diverse entrepreneurial opportunities in information technology (#DiversityInTech) ... plus tweets about significant innovations in Ed Tech and Info Tech ... Big news, interesting stories, insightful comments, and good reads ... for the week ending Saturday 12/10/16.

A. HBCUS | B. Ed Tech | C. Info Tech | D. Hackers | E. Views | F. Chuckles

Calendars:  #EdTech and #DiversityInTech 

Top Stories 2015: Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4

TECH Dozens -- Week ending Saturday 12/3/16

Last update: Sunday 12/4/16 @ 2:30 pm

This week's cover =  Rule 41 greatly expands government search authority ... Other top stories = R.I.P. Dr. Debra Saunders-White ... Amazon's re:Invent 2016 conference ... Google's Gooligan malware

The Digital Learning Lab's favorite tweets about how HBCUs and other organizations are promoting skills that yield more diverse employment opportunities and more diverse entrepreneurial opportunities in information technology (#DiversityInTech) ... plus tweets about significant innovations in Ed Tech and Info Tech ... Big news, interesting stories, insightful comments, and good reads ... for the week ending Saturday 12/3/16.

A. HBCUS | B. Ed Tech | C. Info Tech | D. Hackers | E. Views | F. Chuckles

Calendars:  #EdTech and #DiversityInTech 

Top Stories 2015: Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4

TECH Dozens

Not much tech news during the Thanksgiving Holiday week, so no TECH Dozens magazine.

Next TECH daily on Wednesday 11/30/16

Best States for American Black, Hispanic, Asian, and Female Tech – Vers 1.0f

Last update: Thursday 12/18/16 

This report is a set of FAQs. It answers basic questions about the diversity of the U.S. information technology sector. Its extensive answers are based on U.S. Census data related to American Black, Hispanic, Asian, and female tech professionals in all 50 states plus the District of Columbia in 2015. (Note: the DLL has also published a supplement to this report, "Foreign Professionals: U.S. Tech’s Other Pipelines – Version 1.0")

Readers are advised to view this lengthy report on their workstations, not on their smartphones. They should also use recent versions of Chrome, Safari, or Firefox ... This draft will be modified in response to comments, suggestions, and corrections that we receive from our readers ... :-)

Facebook's challenge to democracy

Last update: Monday 11/21/16

Facebook now reigns as the unchallenged master of social network analysis, which is why Facebook can make such good guesses when it asks, "Do you know ZZZ?" Of course Facebook uses machine learning, or comparably powerful algorithms, to maintain the social networks of each of its more than 1.65 billion active users.

TECH Dozens -- Week ending Saturday 11/19/16

Last update: Sunday 11/20/16 @ 2:30 pm

This week's cover =  Facebook & Google confront fake news ... Other top stories = R.I.P. Gwen Ifill, Black TV news pioneer ... Microsoft joins Linux Foundation ... Grace Hopper and Margaret Hamilton awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom

The Digital Learning Lab's favorite tweets about how HBCUs and other organizations are promoting skills that yield more diverse employment opportunities and more diverse entrepreneurial opportunities in information technology (#DiversityInTech) ... plus tweets about significant innovations in Ed Tech and Info Tech ... Big news, interesting stories, insightful comments, and good reads ... for the week ending Saturday 11/19/16.

A. HBCUS | B. Ed Tech | C. Info Tech | D. Hackers | E. Views | F. Chuckles

Calendars:  #EdTech and #DiversityInTech 

Top Stories 2015: Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4

TECH Dozens -- Week ending Saturday 11/12/16

Last update: Sunday 11/13/16 @ 2:30 pm

This week's cover = "Data Science" failed to predict Trump's victory ... Other top stories = Silicon Valley's initial reactions ... Opponents' initial demonstrations ... Zuckerberg denies Facebook had impact on the election

The Digital Learning Lab's favorite tweets about how HBCUs and other organizations are promoting skills that yield more diverse employment opportunities and more diverse entrepreneurial opportunities in information technology (#DiversityInTech) ... plus tweets about significant innovations in Ed Tech and Info Tech ... Big news, interesting stories, insightful comments, and good reads ... for the week ending Saturday 11/12/16.

A. HBCUS | B. Ed Tech | C. Info Tech | D. Hackers | E. Views | F. Chuckles

Calendars:  #EdTech and #DiversityInTech 

Top Stories 2015: Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4

The Silent Majority Strikes Back ... Again

Last update Tuesday 7/10/18

DLL Editor's -- While reviewing some of my old posts on this blog, I came across this one posted on the day after the 2016 election ... and I felt the same chill that I felt when I wrote it almost two years ago because of my fear that nothing has changed. So I am tweeting it again.

DLL Editor's note -- No Tech Daily today. Like many of you, I'm still processing the meaning of President Trump's unexpected victory yesterday.

P. S. The independent pollsters, the state-of-the-art professionals who constructed complex computer models for their election projections got it all wrong ... and so did their "Data Science" fanboys like me. Why? 

TECH Dozens -- Week ending Saturday 11/5/16

Last update: Sunday 11/6/16 @ 12:15 pm

This week's cover = Facebook's

record breaking quarterly revenue and profits ... Other top stories = LinkedIn adds salary data to site ... FBI investigates its own Twitter account

The Digital Learning Lab's favorite tweets about how HBCUs and other organizations are promoting skills that yield more diverse employment opportunities and more diverse entrepreneurial opportunities in information technology (#DiversityInTech) ... plus tweets about significant innovations in Ed Tech and Info Tech ... Big news, interesting stories, insightful comments, and good reads ... for the week ending Saturday 11/5/16.

A. HBCUS | B. Ed Tech | C. Info Tech | D. Hackers | E. Views | F. Chuckles

Calendars:  #EdTech and #DiversityInTech 

Top Stories 2015: Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4

TECH Dozens -- Week ending Saturday 10/29/16

Last update: Sunday 10/30/16 @ 2:30 pm

This week's cover =  Microsoft's Surface/PC event  ... Other top stories = Apple's MacBook event  ... Google's quarterly report

The Digital Learning Lab's favorite tweets about how HBCUs and other organizations are promoting skills that yield more diverse employment opportunities and more diverse entrepreneurial opportunities in information technology (#DiversityInTech) ... plus tweets about significant innovations in Ed Tech and Info Tech ... Big news, interesting stories, insightful comments, and good reads ... for the week ending Saturday 10/29/16.

A. HBCUS | B. Ed Tech | C. Info Tech | D. Hackers | E. Views | F. Chuckles

Calendars:  #EdTech and #DiversityInTech 

Top Stories 2015: Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4

TECH Dozens -- Week ending Saturday 10/22/16

Last update: Sunday 10/23/16 @ 4:30 pm

This week's cover = R.I.P. William G. Bowen former President of Princeton University and Mellon Foundation ... Other top stories = AT&T buys Time Warner for $85.4B in cash and shares ... Microsoft's speech recognition system attains parity with humans ...  Internet breaks down under massive cyberattacks

The Digital Learning Lab's favorite tweets about how HBCUs and other organizations are promoting skills that yield more diverse employment opportunities and more diverse entrepreneurial opportunities in information technology (#DiversityInTech) ... plus tweets about significant innovations in Ed Tech and Info Tech ... Big news, interesting stories, insightful comments, and good reads ... for the week ending Saturday 10/22/16.

A. HBCUS | B. Ed Tech | C. Info Tech | D. Hackers | E. Views | F. Chuckles

Calendars:  #EdTech and #DiversityInTech 

Top Stories 2015: Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4

DLL Storify of Silicon Harlem's 3rd Annual Conference, Broadband Matters -- Friday 10/21/16

Last update: Saturday 10/22/16

The Silicon Harlem 3rd Next Gen Tech & Innovation Conference gathered innovation leaders from the public and private sectors to discuss why broadband mattered and its most significant applications  to a wide range of activities including education, government operations, democratic processes, advertising, media, entrepreneurship, smart cities, the global economy, and digital inclusion. 

TECH Dozens -- Week ending Saturday 10/15/16

Last update: Sunday 10/16/16 @ 4:30 pm

This week's cover = Obama fist-bumps first man who can feel with mind-controlled robotic hand ... Other top stories = Samsung kills Galaxy Note 7 ... Google & Facebook team up to lay LA to Hong Kong cable ... Palantir denies bias against Asians

The Digital Learning Lab's favorite tweets about how HBCUs and other organizations are promoting skills that yield more diverse employment opportunities and more diverse entrepreneurial opportunities in information technology (#DiversityInTech) ... plus tweets about significant innovations in Ed Tech and Info Tech ... Big news, interesting stories, insightful comments, and good reads ... for the week ending Saturday 10/15/16.

A. HBCUS | B. Ed Tech | C. Info Tech | D. Hackers | E. Views | F. Chuckles

Calendars:  #EdTech and #DiversityInTech 

Top Stories 2015: Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4

DLL Storify of Black Enterprise "BE Smart Hackathon" -- Sunday 10/9/16 to Tuesday 10/11/16

Last update: Tuesday 10/11/16 @ 8:57  pm Eastern

Black Enterprise sponsored this Hackathon as part of its second annual TechConneXt Summit Conference at the San Francisco Marriott Waterfront Hotel. Ten Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) were invited to send participating four-person teams to compete ...

TECH Dozens -- Week ending Saturday 10/8/16

Last update: Sunday 10/2/16 @ 2:30 pm

This week's cover =  U.S. intelligence agencies officially blame Russia for political hacks ... Other top stories = Chemistry's Nobel Prize for molecular machines  ... Google's phones and other hardware ... Oculus Connect 3 

The Digital Learning Lab's favorite tweets about how HBCUs and other organizations are promoting skills that yield more diverse employment opportunities and more diverse entrepreneurial opportunities in information technology (#DiversityInTech) ... plus tweets about significant innovations in Ed Tech and Info Tech ... Big news, interesting stories, insightful comments, and good reads ... for the week ending Saturday 10/8/16.

A. HBCUS | B. Ed Tech | C. Info Tech | D. Hackers | E. Views | F. Chuckles

Calendars:  #EdTech and #DiversityInTech 

Top Stories 2015: Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4

DLL Storify of SXSL (last four hours) -- Monday 10/03/16

Last update: Tuesday 10/4/16

At SXSL, the White House called on every American to roll up their sleeves and discover their own way to make a positive difference in our country. Inspired by the annual SXSW conference, SXSL ("South by South Lawn") was an opportunity to celebrate the inspiring work so many Americans have already accomplished.

TECH Dozens -- Week ending Saturday 10/1/16

Last update: Sunday 10/2/16 @ 1:30 pm

This week's cover =  ESA's Rosetta spacecraft completes 12 year mission  ... Other top stories = Musk plans to colonize Mars ...  Facebook's arctic server farm ... and Big Five form AI partnership

The Digital Learning Lab's favorite tweets about how HBCUs and other organizations are promoting skills that yield more diverse employment opportunities and more diverse entrepreneurial opportunities in information technology (#DiversityInTech) ... plus tweets about significant innovations in Ed Tech and Info Tech ... Big news, interesting stories, insightful comments, and good reads ... for the week ending Saturday 10/1/16.

A. HBCUS | B. Ed Tech | C. Info Tech | D. Hackers | E. Views | F. Chuckles

Calendars:  #EdTech and #DiversityInTech 

Top Stories 2015: Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4

TECH Dozens -- Week ending Saturday 9/24/16

Last update: Sunday 9/25/16 @ 1:30 pm

This week's cover =  Zucks donate $3 billion to cure all diseases ... Other top stories =  AT&T proposes gigabit wi-fi nationwide via power utility poles ... Google  launches Allo ... and Yahoo's 500 million user accounts hacked in 2014

The Digital Learning Lab's favorite tweets about how HBCUs and other organizations are promoting skills that yield more diverse employment opportunities and more diverse entrepreneurial opportunities in information technology (#DiversityInTech) ... plus tweets about significant innovations in Ed Tech and Info Tech ... Big news, interesting stories, insightful comments, and good reads ... for the week ending Saturday 9/24/16.

A. HBCUS | B. Ed Tech | C. Info Tech | D. Hackers | E. Views | F. Chuckles

Calendars:  #EdTech and #DiversityInTech 

Top Stories 2015: Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4

DLL Storify of Black Enterprise Twitter Chat w @BrianBrackeen -- 9/21/16

Last update: Wednesday 9/21/16

The featured guest on the Black Enterprise Twitter chat today was Brian Bracken, CEO/Founder of Kairos. Based in Miami FL, Kairos is a Human Analytics platform designed for innovative, data driven businesses.