Illegal immigrants will be able to apply for state money to attend American universities in California thanks to a new law signed by California Governor Jerry Brown. Under the terms of the law, illegal immigrants who have attended school in California will be eligible to apply for Cal-Grant aid to continue their educations. Last yearRead… Read more »
Slides are available for many of the presentations given at CTC 2011: The 2011 Court Technology Conference (Twitter hashtag #ctc2011), held 4-6 October 2011 in Long Beach, California, USA. The presentations included: Dean Peter W. Martin of Cornell University Law School on Abandoning Law Reports for Official Digital Case Law; James E. McMillan of theRead… Read more »
The Intelligence Community’s Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) office of “incisive analysis” has been evaluating plans, projects and proposals submitted in response to a broad solicitation of inputs on a very interesting construct. They have embarked on a new, smarter way of gleaning technology trends. We first learned publicly of this activity in 2010 whenRead… Read more »
Friends at PNNL have asked that we post information on a search they have underway for a chief scientist position focused on Cyber Security Research. PNNL is renowned for making contributions to the body of scientific knowledge surrounding high end enterprise IT and has long been involved in advanced cybersecurity research. This position will beRead… Read more »
The following PMP® exam sample question is taken from the Free PMP Exam Simulator at http://free.pm-exam-simulator.com – The answer is at the very bottom: —————————— A project manager takes over a challenging two-month project to design a new sports car using CAD/CAM software. In the first project team meeting the project manager assures the teamRead… Read more »
Day 47 As I had mentioned yesterday I took a vacation day on Thursday so I could attend the student-parent day at my daughter’s middle school. But back at work today! And after today, I’m ready to say lock me in a dark, lonely room and hang a sign on the door with a bigRead… Read more »
The Birmingham Civic Dashboard is a neat project from the City Council that reports the requests made for services from the organisation and visualises them in interesting ways, such as by plotting them on a map. It was funded by NESTA as part of the Make It Local programme, which also produced such excellence asRead… Read more »
The Office of Consular Systems and Technology (CST) leads the State Department‘s IT efforts. This is an amazing organization that has been delivering high quality, high throughput systems and solutions for years. This group really is our first line of defense against threat actors so we should all be thankful the team here performs atRead… Read more »
The whole world is eulogizing Steve Jobs today, on Twitter, in the media, in cafes, everywhere. On the alumni list for ITP, the grad program I went to, someone wrote in about an encounter he had with Jobs: I asked him, “if you could talk to yourself from 20 years ago, what would you talkRead… Read more »
The Phone Tips & Tricks series is supported by the Sprint Federal Employee Discount Program. To find awesome discounts visit the Sprint Federal Employee Discount resource center today. These days we have so many options when it comes to choosing a phone, and more and more we are seeing folks being given the option toRead… Read more »