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IBM’s Green Data Center Degree not even nearly green

September 17, 2009

I’ve been sent this link several times in the past few days: IBM Launches First Two-Year Green Data Center Degree. What do I think, should we do this? Unless I’m missing something, I’m very disappointed by these degrees. This is exactly the sort of development that gives the computing profession a bad image. Green data […]

Many hands

September 9, 2009

We’ve been testing user experiences for the e350 project today. We’re developing software to support the Dunedin 350 campaign. Our development process focuses on the user experience, so today we tested those experiences with paper. I think this is the most useful part of the development process (see last year’s reflections on the paper-based prototyping […]

Green energy myths causing paralysis

September 2, 2009

There is a belief that alternative clean energy sources and technologies will substitute for fossil fuels to meaning we can carry on living like we are now. Dr Susan Krumdieck says this myth is dangerous, it has “induced paralysis when change is needed…we need to use less energy…we need to stop driving around so much”. Every […]

Capstone collaborations

August 19, 2009

A feature of our degree is the capstone project. Today I had to write a report outlining the 2009 collaborations with community and business organisations. It’s quite a list, so I thought I’d share it here. At the bottom of the list is the work Bachelor of Information Technology students are doing with other areas […]

Cliches and proverbs prove successful system metaphors

August 10, 2009

I wasn’t planning to keep up a running commentary on this year’s software engineering class (see last year’s), but already it is taking some interesting turns – so here’s some more. The classes are working with the Dunedin 350 campaign organisers (see earlier). As usual, students are struggling with the idea that they “don’t have […]