CofC Grad Discovers International Law, Human Rights -- Honors College, Study Abroad, the Peace Corps
Joseph (Yusuf) Saei '10 fully leveraged his opportunities at the College of Charleston. Among other accomplishments, this philosophy major (with minors in French and communication) served internships in the arts world in New York City, won a grant to study abroad in Cairo, Egypt, published two essays in the College's research journal Chrestomathy, and received the institution's highest honor upon graduation -- the Bishop Robert Smith Award. Since then, he has studied Arabic in Morocco as a Rotar
Edward P. Jones, Author of "The Known World" Appears on the College of Charleston Campus
The College of Charleston selected "The Known World" by Edward P. Jones as its 2011 The College Reads! book selection. Jones was on campus for a public reading week and book talk on November 1, 2011. He remained on campus on November 2 to engage with students, faculty and staff.
Set in antebellum Virginia, 20 years before the Civil War began, Jones's debut novel examines issues regarding the ownership of black slaves by free black people as well as by whites. Caldonia Townsend is an educated b
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Centro internazionale di studi di architettura Andrea Palladio
This is the website of the Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio (CISA) [Andrea Palladio International Centre of Architectural Studies]. Founded in 1958 and located in Palazzo Barbaran da Porto, Vicenza, Italy, the Centre is a research institute dedicated to the work of the architect Andrea Palladio (1508-1580) and history of architecture generally from antiquity to the 20th century. The website offers a detailed biography of the Padua-born architect and description of h
Virtual Maths - Basic Structures, bending moment point of load
Interactive simulation demonstrating the bending moment at point of load
Outrage in Yemen
Dec. 6 - Hundreds take to the streets in Sana'a to support anti-government protesters fighting President Abdullah Saleh's regime in Taiz. Deborah Lutterbeck reports
Art a GoGo Podcast #8 - Museum of Art and History: Santa Cruz, CA
It's Art a GoGo podcast #8! We don't stray too far from home this time. Join us as we do a soundseeing tour of an exhibit at the Museum of Art & History, Santa Cruz called "Material Terrain: A Sculptural Exploration of Landscape and Place."
Please visit our blog at www.artagogo.com/blog for full show notes and links that we discuss during the show. Thanks for listening!
Kathleen & Doug
Art a GoGo Podcast #36 - Art News + Gallery Player Please visit our blog at www.artagogo.com/blog for full show notes and links that we discuss during the show. Â Tags: art, arts, art a gogo, artist, art news
Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture 2007: HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan
HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan gave the 2007 Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture on the subject of human rights and refugees. This podcast was recorded at the Annual Harrell-Bond Lecture which was on Wednesday 21 November 2007 at the University of Oxford's Museum of Natural History. In celebration of the 25th Anniversary of the Refugee Studies Centre, HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan gave the lecture and spoke on the subject of human rights and refugees.
Statelessness and citizenship: camps and the creation of political space
Public Seminar Series, Hilary term 2013. Seminar by Dr Victoria Redclift (London School of Economics) recorded on 20 February 2013 at the Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford. What does it mean to be a citizen? In depth field research with a stateless population in Bangladesh reveals that the limits of political community are not set in stone. The Urdu speaking population in Bangladesh exemplify some of the key problems facing uprooted populations. Set in a site o
Elton John commemorates World AIDS Day
Dec. 01 - Sir Elton John lights the Sydney Opera House to commemorate World AIDS Day. John Russell reports.
A Computer Called Watson
[Recorded: November 15, 2011]
In an historic event in February 2011, IBM's Watson computer competed on Jeopardy! against the TV quiz show's two biggest all-time champions. Watson is a computer running software called Deep QA, developed by IBM Research. While the grand challenge driving the project was to win on Jeopardy!, the broader goal of Watson was to create a new generation of technology that can find answers in unstructured data more effectively than standard search technology.
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Life in the Universe: Finding Intelligence
Recorded on 11/29/11
Hugh Elliott (Anglo American), Dinah Rajak (Uni of Sussex) and Noshua Watson (IDS) are interviewed
Hugh Elliott (Head of Government Relations, Anglo American), Dinah Rajak (Researcher, University of Sussex) and Noshua Watson (Research Fellow, Globalisation Team, IDS) are interviewed on the seminar ‘Mining and conflict prevention: an insider’s view - Anglo American’s approach to conflict prevention and management’, held at IDS on the 29 November 2011 as part of the Business and Development Seminar Series.
[PURDUE MLSS] Graphical Models for the Internet by Alexander Smola (Part 8/8)
Lecture notes: http://learning.stat.purdue.edu/mlss/_media/mlss/smola.pdf
Graphical Models for the Internet
Information extraction from webpages, social networks, news and user interactions crucially relies on inferring the hidden parameters of interaction between entities. For instance, in factorization models for movie recommendation we are interested in the underlying hidden properties of users and movies respectively such as to suggest new movies. Likewise, when extracting topics from webp
EU could face downgrade "soon" if summit fails: S&P
Dec. 6 - John Chambers, Standard & Poor's Head of Sovereign Ratings, tells Reuters the ratings agency could act quickly if an upcoming EU summit doesn't alleviate concerns about the states' sovereign debt.
ISS Update - Dec. 5, 2011
The International Space Station video update for Dec. 5, 2011.
U.S. Day Ahead: Next stop for Geithner, France
Dec. 6 - U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner travels to Paris to meet with French President Nicolas Sarkozy amid tense talks over the region's debt woes.
Civic society initiative
This is the website of the Civic Society Initiative an umbrella organisation uniting local civic societies around the UK. These societies are typically concerned with the architectural environment and built heritage of individual towns and take an active campaigning role. The Civic Society Initiative steps into the void left when the national Civic Trust folded and aims to support local groups and give a national voice to the movement. The site showcase the broad range of activities across the c
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