Jensen Harris Walks Us Through the Windows 8 UI Jensen Harris from the Windows User Experience team walks us through how Microsoft reimagined Windows with the new Metro UI in "Windows 8". Be sure to visit BUILDWindows.com for more information on our developer conference.
Student Futures - Lauren Charnley - BA Economics for Business
Lauren talks about her time studying at Leeds Metropolitan University
Number Sequencing In The Real World
A video created for educational purposes that focus on numeracy in the real world. The actor needs to know how to tell time, read a map, count how many floors to climb, and read decimals. (01:54)
Dwyane Wade speaks at Milwaukee BGCA Club
Former Marquette University star and NBA All-star Dwyane Wade spoke at the Hillside Boys & Girls Club in Milwaukee, Wis., on Aug. 29, 2011, encouraging club members to dream big and strive for success. Wade was in town as part of an annual visit to Marquette University where he met with the school's BGCA Youth of the Year scholarship winners. A video from his visit to Marquette can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUh9Wd-bOfk
New Research Points to Dinosaurs' Colorful Past
There's new evidence that dinosaurs, once thought to resemble scaly lizards, were in fact fluffy, colorful animals. Curator Mark Norell, who is chair of the Museum's Division of Paleontology and studies important feathered dinosaurs from Liaoning, China, shares his thoughts on the significance of two new studies about fossilized feathers reported in the current issue of Science magazine.
Tips for Teaching International Students
Tips for Teaching International Students
Honors Colloquium - "The Web Within Us: When Minds and Machines Become One"
Inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil on exponential growth and its consequences.
URI Fall 2011 Honors Colloquium: Are You Ready for the Future?
Durable robots tackle triathlon
Sept. 15 - Panasonic's battery-powered robots gear up for the Ironman triathlon challenge in Hawaii. Tara Cleary reports.
U.S. Day Ahead: Geithner to talk leveraging EU bailout fund
Sept. 15 - U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner heads to Poland to meet with European finance ministers and propose a possible solution for making the EU's bailout fund more effective, says Reuters Economics Editor Bill Schomberg.
Les premiers systèmes sonores. Une conférence Jean-Pierre Verscheure
L’histoire du cinéma sonore débute véritablement avec les premiers films dialogués qui marquent une transformation fondamentale du langage filmique. Une nouvelle forme de narration naît avec Le Chanteur de Jazz, et d’une manière plus significative encore avec L’Ange bleu ou Lights of New-York. A partir des équipements Vitaphone de la Western Electric de 1927 (le projecteur à disque, le premier haut-parleur de l’histoire du cinéma), jusqu’au système RCA Photophone mis au p
L'histoire du cinéma sonore est-elle seulement technique ? Une conférence de Claude Bailblé
Depuis le phonautographe de Léon Scott (1857), nombre d’inventions techniques en cascade (microphone, lampe triode, haut-parleur, modulateur optique…) finissent par se rencontrer en un seul dispositif : le cinéma sonore des années 1930. Commence alors l’exploration des possibilités expressives de la monophonie, que d’autres progrès technologiques (l’enregistrement magnétique, la caméra silencieuse, le montage et mixage multipistes) viennent faciliter.
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Le cerveau et le monde : Shining et après. Conférence d'Emmanuel Siety
Dans L’Image-temps, Gilles Deleuze voyait en Stanley Kubrick, à l’instar d’Alain Resnais, un cinéaste « de l’identité du monde et du cerveau ». En partant de Shining, nous questionnerons et prolongerons ce rapprochement en avançant trois autres noms de cinéastes explorateurs d’états limites du monde et de la conscience : David Lynch, Michael Haneke et Gus Van Sant.
Emmanuel Siety est maître de conférences en cinéma à l’université Paris 3 - Sor
Open for learning
This xerte on-line toolkits resource has been produced as part of the JISC funded BERLiN (Building Exchanges for Research and Learning in Nottingham) project run by The University of Nottingham from April 2009 - April 2010. The project aimed to publish and share the equivalent of 360 credits of Open Educational Resources (OERs), enhance and expand Nottingham's existing Open Educational Repository (U-Now) and foster OER use and reuse.
This open educational resource aims to share knowledge gain
Number for Nurses: Division
The Number for Nurses Computer Assisted Learning Package begins with a basic principles section which is followed by application to nursing practice. The basic principles section deals with addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, S.I. units and scales and gauges. In each area a variety of methods are used to enable the student to understand these principles, through interactive tutorials and consolidate learning through exercises.
The aim of the division section is to help the student
Shift to services vital for UK industry
New research reveals 12 steps for those who want to follow a business model innovation approach to service provision. The findings are also particularly relevant for policy-makers learning more about the shift towards complex services.
Polish Ottoman War Overview
The Polish Ottoman war was fought for the Commonwealth of Lithuania and Poland. It lasted from 1672 to 1676. This very short video is an overview.
London Design Festival's 3D 'revolution'
Sept.19 - As part of the ninth London Design Festival, the 154-year-old Victoria & Albert Museum is staging an exhibition of items created using a cutting-edge 3D printing process which curator Murray Moss says will spark a new 'revolution' in creativity. Matt Cowan reports
Obama deficit proposal a "non-starter," says GOP deputy whip
Sept. 19 - Representative Kevin Brady, a Texas Republican, says there is room for compromise in reducing the deficit, but Obama's deficit reduction plan is a "non-starter" with Congress and the American public.
Gas jets expand during star birth
Read more:
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/nstv/2011/09/time-lapse-tuesday-gas-jets-expand-during-star-birth.html
Olympians@Google: Kristi Yamaguchi
Olympic figure skating champion Kristi Yamaguchi visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss her journey leading up to the Olympics, her charitable work, as well as her new book "Dream Big, Little Pig." This event took place on August 23, 2011, as part of the @Google Talks series.
Kristi Yamaguchi is an American figure skater and 1992 Olympic Champion in ladies' singles. She is also a World Figure Skating Champion in 1991-1992 and National Champion in 1992. In December of 2005, sh
