My cell phone rang at 11:42a on Friday. Over the next twenty minutes, I received two notification emails and heard sirens. Indiana University had successfully alerted the campus to a faux emergency, as a test of the IU-Notify system.
Top IT Schools to Watch
With new students arriving in Bloomington for next week’s orientation, the IU School of Informatics gets welcome national recognition.
Taking the H out of HCI
Protocols were misreviewed, personal data was released without informed consent, researchers were given incorrect information. IRB problems now threaten HCI research in Bloomington.
SproutBox
The fact that SproutBox exists at all can be considered the most important outcome of Bloomington Startup Weekend.
Dissertating
I’m ready to be a doctor. Mentally ready, that is. There are a few little things like qualifying exams and dissertation, wrapped in various strands of red tape, that are currently preventing me from saying grad school is done.
Threatdown to Touchdown … Bears
Antwaan Randle-El can do anything. Even score a touchdown against a bear.
The gift that keeps on giving
Tim—whose Illini barely survived Penn State in the first round—snapped this picture as a way of saying “Hi” and reminding me that the Indiana program was sullied recently by a phone call scandal. Incredibly funny. I hope he remembers to call when the Hoosiers win this thing on Sunday.
