2012: Yosef Wosk - Doctor of Letters, honoris causa
Yosef Wosk is a Vancouver philanthropist, scholar, educator, rabbi, community leader, businessman and a former director in Continuing Studies at SFU. He also founded the Canadian Academy of Independent Scholars and SFU's Philosophers' Café, the world's largest series of cafe discussion gatherings. The degree of Doctor of Letters, honoris causa, will be conferred on Dr. Wosk on Thursday, June 14, 2012 at the 2:30 pm ceremony. Dr. Wosk's Citation - http://www.sfu.ca/content/dam/sfu/ceremonies/HDR
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Mark Russinovich and Aaron Margosis: Sysinternals, Stuxnet, AMA | Channel 9 Live at TechEd Europe 20 Mark Russinovich and Aaron Margosis discuss Sysinternals tools, computer viruses, hackers, hacking and more with Charles Torre. Questions from a live virtual audience are addressed. This is a great example of riding tandem with the random, the theme of Channel 9 Live's TechEd 2012 coverage - it's pure C9. Nothing was rehearsed. No scripts. No plan (beyond the scheduling, and even that changed
C9::GoingNative Live: Kate Gregory and Steve Teixeira - Modern C++, AMP, Casablanca, C++ Renaissance In this special episode of GoingNative, Charles is joined by Kate Gregory and Steve Teixeira to discuss the latest and greatest in C++, VC++ and more - all native of course! Steve runs the VC++ PM team (feature team) and Kate is a consultant and engineer who's gone 100% native this year based on customer demand. Go native!
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Jim Knight (Roche) at the 2012 SFAF Meeting
By: JGI Jim Knight on "454 Sequencing: The Road to the Future" at the 2012 Sequencing, Finishing, Analysis in the Future Meeting held June 5-7, 2012 in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Mass murder of Kamenka Jews-part 2
Ilya Boltyanskii, who was born in 1924 in Kamenka and lived there during the war years, recounts how the old Jews, Jewish women, and Jewish children were locked in a pigsty and held there for several days without water or food, then taken to the Zlatoustovka ravine, and shot them. Most of the children were thrown into the ravine alive.
For more information: http://www1.yadvashem.org/untoldstories/database/murderSite.asp?site_id=449
Praxeology: The Methodology of Austrian Economics [Day 13 of Robert Wenzel's 30-day reading list that will lead you to become a knowledgeable libertarian, this article is excerpted from Economic Controversies (2011). It originally appeared in Author(s): Outcome-Based Evaluation of Programs and Services Management of Libraries and Information Services Contracting and Signaling The Eyes Have It Some Awkward Questions about Supervision - Dave Green Sound Wave Experiment Strategic Choices for Success CMS.S61 Special Subject: The Rise of Film Noir (MIT) 30.08.2012 – Langsam gesprochene Nachrichten PSY372 Session 9 Summer 2012 The Sampling Theorem JFK Orders Resumption of Nuclear Tests Oscar-winning Hollywood sound designer visits University Film Institute.
SI 623 - This course provides an overview of the purposes and uses of outcome-based evaluation approaches and methods, and provides an opportunity to conduct a focused outcome evaluation of a user-focused service in a library, a nonprofit organization, an archive, a museum or other service-focused organization. Objectives are to:Learn about approaches to outcome-based evaluationIdentify and use context-centered methods for evaluating public information servicesExamine the role of evaluation in d
SI 626 - Information practice demands knowledge of all aspects of management and service delivery. This course introduces selected theories, principles and techniques of contemporary management science, and organizational behavior and their application to libraries and information services. Students develop skills in planning, organizing, personnel management, financial management, leading, marketing, stakeholder management, and coordinating functions in libraries and information services. Stude
Course prepares you to advise clients or your own organization on the design of contracts and screening policies when one of the parties has an information advantage over the other. For example, students study the design of patent licenses (the licensor knows more about the market), the design of social systems to reduce spam (the spam sender knows more about the content before the recipient decides whether to read), and the design of performance contracts for professional services (e.g., consul
The Eyes Have It is an interactive teaching and assessment program on vision care. The Instructional Mode provides an overview of the visual system and disorders of the eyes using photographs or captioned streaming videos supplemented with text. In Quiz Mode, users have a chance to test your knowledge and be scored. There is a quiz corresponding to each topic in the Instructional Mode.
Some Awkward Questions about Supervision - Dave Green
In this fun and simple experiment, children will learn how sound travels from one end to the other. The words are on the screen as the narrator says them. Simple animation and easy-to understand narrative. (03:37)
David Molian, Programme Director of the Business Growth & Development Programme (BGP) talks about how to make successful strategic choices in growing businesses.
This class explores the development of Hollywood Film Noir. There will be a focus on émigré directors who moved to Hollywood when the Nazis rose to power. Assignments will include short response papers about three of the films in the series, and reports by students on examples of "neo-noir" films from recent decades.
This course is offered during the Independent Activities Period (IAP), which is a special 4-week term at MIT that runs from the first week of January until the end of t
Trainiere dein Hörverstehen mit den Nachrichten der Deutschen Welle von Donnerstag – als Text und als verständlich gesprochene Audio-Datei.
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China hat sich zur Unterstützung im Kampf gegen die Euro-Krise bereiterklärt. Ministerpräsident Wen Jiabao kündigte nach einem Treffen mit Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel in Peking an, die Volksrepublik werde weiter in Staatsanleihen kriselnder Euro-Staaten investieren und sich dabei intensiv mit der Europäischen Zentralbank und dem Internation
"Industrial/Organizational Psychology" with Donna El-Armale
July 7, 2012
Don Johnson
Converting between a signal and numbers.
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In a March 1962 national address, President John F. Kennedy announces that he has authorized the first U.S. nuclear tests in three years. (1:50)
The University of Nottingham has recruited an Oscar-winning Hollywood sound designer as part of a unique collaboration between the global film industry and pioneering academic researchers.
Randy Thom is Director of Sound at Lucasfilm Ltd's Skywalker Sound facility in Northern California and has a string of blockbuster movies to his name including Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and Harry Potter. His most recent award was an Oscar for his work on Pixar's The Incredibles. Mr Thom is working with the U
