Introduction to Design Computing, Spring 2004
Explores the role of computer visualization as a representational medium. Visualization is widely used in scientific, engineering, and design disciplines to help people understand complex phenomena and constructs. The key intellectual challenge is to develop the right visual metaphors for conveying information in the most effective way. Through programming projects and applications work, real and imaginary environments are constructed, probed, and displayed. Also covers the relevant computer gra
A walk in the Hafod estate, Pont-rhyd-y-groes
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GoNU.TV - Get To Know Your Huskies - Men's Ice Hockey
Want to get to know your Huskies? Fans know what the team is like on the ice, but now we get to see what they're like off the ice. Find out who has the best dance moves and who rocks the best style. Through these exclusive one-on-one interviews. GoNU.TV has the inside scoop on all this and much more. This is something you definitely don't want to miss.
JFK50 Ireland and the American Dream — John Timoney
John Timoney, former Miami police chief and Institute of Politics fellow, talks about being a kid in Ireland and new immigrant in America during the JFK era.
Aimee Allison - Undergraduate Colloquium on Political Science
This course features a guest speaker each week discussing an issue currently in the news. Some of the topics include political issues facing the state of California, the United States, or the international community.
A rotting log
The lichen is digesting the log and will eventually turn the log into nutrient-rich soil.
Keynes and the Crisis of Capitalism
Robert Skidelsky is Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the University of Warwick. His three-volume biography of the economist John Maynard Keynes (1983, 1992, 2000) received numerous prizes, including the Lionel Gelber Prize for International Relations and the Council on Foreign Relations Prize for International Relations. He is the author of The World After Communism (1995) (American edition called The Road from Serfdom). He was made a life peer in 1991, and was elected Fellow of the Br
Building windmills not walls - Hungary's approach in the economic storm
Gordon Bajnai has been the Prime Minister of Hungary since 14 April 2009. Prior to this between 2008-2009 he was a Minister in the Ministry for National Development and Economy. Between 2007-2008 he was a Minister for the Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development. Prior to this he was CEO of Wallis Rt., an investment company from 2000-2005.
The International economy, and the process of the citizen's revolution in Ecuador
Rafael Vicente Correa Delgado is the current President of the Republic of Ecuador after being re-elected for a second consecutive term in April 2009, he was first elected in late 2006. He served as Minister of Economy from April 2005- August 2005. President Correa Delgado has a Phd in Economics and a Masters in Economic Sciences both from the University of Illinois as well as a Master of Arts in EconomÃa from the Catholic University of Lovaina the New in Belgium. From 1993 – April 2005 he wa
The Future of Capitalism and Globalisation: Global Perspectives and a European Agenda
The subprime crisis and the global recession are receding. But what will be their long-term consequences? What future awaits globalization, international relations, and the market economy? What are the global trends of crisis policies and what do they mean for the post-crisis world? These fundamental questions will be addressed at an evening debate that will offer both the big global picture and the view from the new EU Commissioner for Trade.
Cities Under Siege
Cities have become the new battleground of our increasingly urban world. From the slums of the global South to the wealthy financial centres of the West, Cities Under Siege traces how political violence now operates through the sites, spaces, infrastructures and symbols of the world's rapidly expanding metropolitan areas. Drawing on a wealth of original research, Graham shows how Western and Israeli militaries and security forces now perceive all urban terrain as a real or imagined conflict zone
Lithuania 2030
Andrius Kubilius is Prime Minister of Lithuania, a position he has held since November 2008. He also served as Prime Minister between 1999 and 2000. Between 2006 and 2008 he served Deputy Speaker of the Seimas and Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on European Affairs. Prime Minister Kubilius is interested in the political science, history, and the knowledge economy; he is a Chairman of the Policy Committee of the Knowledge Economy Forum. He was a Chairman of the Knowledge Society Council u
Lloyd George - the great outsider
David Lloyd George became the authentic radical of British politics in part because of intellectual conviction, but, more significantly, because his birth and upbringing had made him contemptuous of the establishment and its values. He did not so much break the rules of conventional society and politics as refuse to acknowledge their existence. He remained an "outsider" to the end. This event celebrates the publication of Lord Hattersley's new book David Lloyd George: The Great Outsider.
Tensions at financial reform hearing
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and America's other top financial regulators went to Capitol Hill to answer lawmakers' questions about landmark Wall Street reform put in place after the financial crisis.
Pro and anti Libyan protests
Lack of communications in Libya hampers acurate information.
Croix Rouge - Nancy 2011 - Délinquance, violence : discussion et perspectives
Croix Rouge - Nancy 2011 - Délinquance, violence : atelier 5 - discussion et perspectives
Croix Rouge - Nancy 2011- Lettre aux parents d'aujourd'hui.
Les valeurs fondamentales, celles qui tournent autour de la solidarité, de la confiance et de la famille, restent partagées par le plus grand nombre. Notre société valorise certes l'individualisme et le succès, mais je sens derrière une attente plus profonde, un désir de partage et de paix. Ne nous laissons pas piéger par les apparences, bonnes et mauvaises. Apprenons au contraire à hiérarchiser ces valeurs, sans tomber dans l'angélisme. On peut avoir l'esprit de compétition san
Croix Rouge - Nancy 2011- Discours de clôture
Jean-François MATTEI – (Président de la Croix-Rouge française). Croix Rouge - Nancy 2011- Discours de clôture
Conférence enregistrée lors du congrès international de la Croix Rouge Française à Nancy sur le thème de la fragilité de l’enfant et de l’adolescent dans une société en mutation. Séance plénière : Adolescents et jeunes adultes : des atouts pour la société. Modérateur : Michel MANCIAUX – (Professeur émérite de pédiatrie sociale et de santé pub
Croix Rouge - Nancy 2011- Synthèse des ateliers et perspectives.
Les valeurs fondamentales, celles qui tournent autour de la solidarité, de la confiance et de la famille, restent partagées par le plus grand nombre. Notre société valorise certes l'individualisme et le succès, mais je sens derrière une attente plus profonde, un désir de partage et de paix. Ne nous laissons pas piéger par les apparences, bonnes et mauvaises. Apprenons au contraire à hiérarchiser ces valeurs, sans tomber dans l'angélisme. On peut avoir l'esprit de compétition san
Croix Rouge - Nancy 2011 - Handicaps, vulnérabilité et ressources.
Croix Rouge - Nancy 2011 - Handicaps, vulnérabilité et ressources : pour une prise en charge plus cohérente. Questions - réponses
Conférence enregistrée lors du congrès international de la Croix Rouge Française à Nancy sur le thème de la fragilité de l’enfant et de l’adolescent dans une société en mutation. Séance plénière : handicaps, vulnérabilité et ressources : pour une prise en charge plus cohérente. Modérateur : Pierre LE COZ – (Vice-président du C
