TECH Dozens -- Week Ending Saturday 1/30/16

Last update: Monday 2/1/16 @ 3:30 pm

This week's cover = photo from tweet that Google/Alphabet AI beats (human) professional Go player  ... Other top stories = Howard University professor of computer science named fellow of the AAAS ... Quarterly reports from Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, and Facebook ... and Marvin Minsky, A.I. pioneer, dies

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 1/30/16 @ 3 pm.

A. HBCUs | B. Ed Tech | C. Info Tech | D. Hackers | E. Views  ... 

TECH Dozens 2015 ==> Q1 ... Q2 ... Q3 ... Q4 ...  Calendar 

DLL Storify of Chicago Black Tech Entrepreneurs Meetup -- Wednesday 1/27/16

Last update: Wednesday 1/27/16

Chicago Black Tech Entrepreneurs Meetup is a monthly event hosted by CODINGWHILEBLACK.

At these meetups entrepreneurs, businesses, and startups introduce their companies and their goals to the community.  Light refreshments are served during fireside chats with Black entrepreneurs who have a record of success in tech. More information about today's meet up can be found on its event page

TECH Dozens -- Week Ending Saturday 1/23/16

Last update: Sunday 1/24/16 @ 11:30 am

This week's cover = photo from tweet that HBCUs celebrate Dr. King's legacy ... Other top stories = Why Silicon Valley doesn't hire black coders (from HBCUS) ... Wired lists 20 techs who are defining the 2016 election ... and ACLU and lawmakers in 16 states push for digital privacy

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 Saturday1/23/16 @ 3 pm.

A. HBCUs | B. Ed Tech | C. Info Tech | D. Hackers | E. Views  ... 

TECH Dozens 2015 ==> Q1 ... Q2 ... Q3 ... Q4 ...  Calendar 

DLL Storify of Twitter Chat with Sebastian Thrun and Peter Lubbers -- Tuesday 1/19/16

Last update: Wednesday 1/20/16

Google Developers hosted a Twitter chat with Sebastian Thrun (CEO/founder, Udacity) and Peter Lubbers (Senior Program Manager, Google Developers) about code and success.

DLL Storify of BLUE1647's "MLK I Have a Dream" Hackathon -- Monday 1/18/16

Last update: Monday 1/18/16

Blue1647's Hackathon Series brings together urban youth, grades 7th-12th to identify community problems then build a prototype App to address that problem, all within 12 hours. The hackathons encourage all students to take the first step in coding: trying it out! Since 2010, its Edison-Award winning youth education program encouraged over 10,000 students across the world to do just that —try out coding and think innovatively about how to solve a community problem. More information about the MLK Hackathon can be found on its event page.

TECH Dozens -- Week Ending Saturday 1/16/16

Last update: Sunday 1/17/16 @ 12:30 pm

This week's cover = graphic from tweet that Udacity guarantees jobs for nanodegree grads in 6 months or gives 100% tuition refunds ... Other top stories = Apple iOS 9.3 focuses on education ... Obama  proposes $4 billion 10 year support for fed programs to make self-driving cars safer  ... and Obama wants tech to solve America's biggest challenges

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  1/16/16 @ 3 pm.

A. HBCUs | B. Ed Tech | C. Info Tech | D. Hackers | E. Views  ... 

TECH Dozens 2015 ==> Q1 ... Q2 ... Q3 ... Q4 ...  Calendar 

TECH Dozens -- Week Ending Saturday 1/9/15

Last update: Sunday 1/10/15 @ 12:30 pm

This week's cover = photo from tweet that Intel, IBM, and HTC bring high tech to sports and fitness ... Other top stories = Lenovo is making first Google Project Tango phone ... Zuckerberg vows to build an AI system to run his home in 2016 ... and Pinterest appoints first head of diversity

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 1/9/15 @ 3 pm.

A. HBCUs | B. Ed Tech | C. Info Tech | D. Hackers | E. Views  ... 

and TECH Dozens 2015 ==> Q1 ... Q2 ... Q3 ... Q4 ...  Calendar 

Pass the MOOCs -- Part 5 (Rumsfeld's Three) ... with fifth & final update

First post: 1/23/16 ... Last update: 4/26/16

In early 2002, a few months after the devastating attacks on Wall Street and the Pentagon on 9/11/2001, then Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was asked about a direct link between Saddam Hussein's government in Iraq and terrorist organizations. He responded with what became his most famous statement:

TECH Editorials -- 2015

Last update: Sunday 1/3/16

From time to time throughout 2015 the DLL Editor posted editorials  on this blog  that related to the efforts of HBCUs and community-based groups to promote #DiversityInTech. Links to these posts are listed below. 

Links to editorials and reports that were posted before 2015 can be found ==> HERE

TECH-Levers 2015

Last update: 1/1/16

This page provides links to all of TECH-Levers' end-of-year reviews of 2015. To be specific, it links to summaries of the blog's coverage of the most important developments in information technology and educational technology in 2015; it links to the blog's coverage of the most important efforts by HBCUs and community-based organizations to promote learning and career opportunities for Black Americans in STEM; it links to the efforts of these organizations to promote diversity in tech; and it links to insightful comments, opinions, long forms, and editorials related to these issues

Happy New Year 2016 !!!

Out with the old ... :-(

 In with the new ... :-)

Happy New Year !!!