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Look out for new slogan: “Computing empowers you to do good”

June 3, 2009

Despite strong career prospects, computing education continues to suffer low student intakes and the rates for women are crazy low (Taulbee report). “Something is wrong with perceptions of computing” can be heard around the halls of every campus and computing conference. The truth may be that something is wrong with computing. There’s a report […]

Hawkin: “the earth needs a new operating system, you are the programmers”

May 25, 2009

Widely reported, I’m copying this here because a) it’s inspirational and b) he uses computing as the metaphor for the solution, and c) because last year our graduates got a very weird speech about drain-laying. Commencement Address by Paul Hawken to the Class of 2009, University of Portland, May 3, 2009 You are […]

Mellalieu persistently and interminably asks the question

May 4, 2009

My friend Peter Mellalieu is the Professor of Innovation at Unitec. Fortunately for us, he does this with a strong leaning towards sustainability. We caught up at the Tertiary Education Summit where he was delivering a paper “Shifting frontiers, new priorities, creating pathways: Elevating the case for tertiary education for sustainable development in New Zealand”. Here’s […]

My learnings for innovative education

May 4, 2009

Last week I spoke at the Tertiary Education Summit. I was on a panel to discuss “Developing world leading research and innovation activities”. The panel was asked to explore what are characteristics of successful institutions? I’ve been on panels like this before and listened to lots more. The outcome is always the same: […]

Bill McKibben’s 350ppm at 46 South

May 1, 2009

We had Bill McKibben visiting work yesterday. He gave a good talk and stayed for lunch. Bill has been in Wanaka and started his talk with a compelling story of an experience in Tibet, of glaciers melting and significantly changing landscape in an area that provides the water supply for a huge proportion of […]