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An excellent time at the Minnesota Fringe!
Tom and I are living in the Cities for 9 days while he’s in the Shakespeare workshop at the Guthrie Theater, and quite happily our first week coincided with the last week of the Minnesota Fringe Festival. We saw some great shows, and with a little luck you can still catch some of the awesomeness, [...]
Posted in Art, Drama/Performance, Family Also tagged alum, casebolt and smith, comedy, dance, Guthrie Theater, intellectual property, James T. Wilson, Minneapolis, minnesota, minnesota fringe festival, O(h), performance, Shakespeare Workshop, Speech!, theater, Tim Hellendrung, Tom, University of Minnesota Morris Leave a comment
Incentives and cognitive surplus
Via TechDirt I found this very cool video on how our “standard” notions of incentives don’t always work very well, especially when it comes to cognitive work. There’s a ton of cool ideas in the video (and more in the TechDirt piece, including some cool links). The incentives in the talk are typically money, but [...]
Posted in Education, Science, economics Also tagged academy, Atlassian, behavior, cognitive work, computer science, freedom, incentives, money, opportunity, Science, TechDirt, value, Video Comments closed
Reflecting on pasts and futures
I took over 1,000 pictures at yesterday’s 2010 graduation ceremony at UMM, and will sometime be putting the least bad of them on my events account on Flickr, but at the moment I have a ton of deadlines looming (grades, etc.) so that’ll have to wait a bit. The wind ensemble and choir both did [...]
Posted in Art, Education, Events, Photography Also tagged euphoniums, Events, Flickr, Graduation, graduation ceremony, mirror, Morris, photos, reflection, University of Minnesota Morris, wind ensemble Comments closed
Farewell, and safe voyages
Graduation is an occupational hazard for all teachers from pre-school and kindergarden on up. Here Spring rolls around and another crop of fine UMM students graduate, heading out into that nebulous “the world”. Today I watched another great group of people walk across that stage and shake hands with the assembled dignitaries, and I want [...]
Posted in Education, Events Also tagged graduate, graduates, Graduation, international conferences, Morris, national awards, Scholars, school, students, truman scholars, university, University of Minnesota Morris Comments closed
I’m published in CACM! (But not in the way one might have thought)
The May, 2010, issue of the Communications of the ACM (CACM – the flagship magazine of the ACM) features a photograph of UMM CSci alum Tyler Hutchison presenting research work done with Andy Korth and Nic McPhee at MICS 2007. The article is “Student and Faculty Attitudes and Beliefs About Computer Science”. Andy and Tyler [...]
Posted in Art, Computing, Education, Photography, Science Also tagged alum, Andy Korth, Art, cacm, communications of the acm, computer science, evolutionary computation, Flickr, graphics, MICS, photograph, photos, presenting research, Research, Science, Tyler Hutchison, umm csci Comments closed
Holy Crap! Over 5,000 views in one day!
Friday was the second annual Fashion Trashion show, where a number of UMM’s Studio Art students grace the runway modeling outfits they’ve constructed primarily from recycled, reclaimed, and re-used materials. Jess Larson was kind enough to ask me to take pictures again (I shot the first show last year). I did indeed take a bunch [...]
Posted in Drama/Performance, Events, Photography Also tagged Art, art students, Events, Fashion Trashion, Flickr, graph, Jess Larson, Morris, photograph, photos, runway, spike, students, studio art, traffic, Trashion, Twitter, views Comments closed
What should a new UMM Director of Information Technology person do?
This is essentially a re-posting from the UMM CSci blog. UMM has recently opened a position for a new Director of Information Technology. The full job description is attached, and the description and application page are on-line. Some highlights from the “Purpose of the Position” section: General priorities for the position include: promoting a 21st [...]
Posted in Computing, Education Also tagged administrative leadership, change, director of information technology, institutional goals, job description, minnesota, Morris, search, search committee, technology, technology leadership, umm csci, University of Minnesota Comments closed
Why the sudden interest in “feather braids”?
Anyone know why there’s been a sudden spike in searches for “feather braids”? I’ve seen a big spike in views on a photograph I took at the UMM Powwow back in 2007 (see the plot below). When I drill down into the search terms, it’s clear that lots of people are searching for “feather braids”, [...]
Posted in Events, Photography Also tagged feather braids, Flickr, hive mind, photograph, photos, powwow, search, spike, University of Minnesota Morris Comments closed
I love our students (alumni edition)
Two cool tweets from two cool alumni :-).
Eeeek! I have photos hanging in an art gallery!