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Creating a sustainable future with the experts of today and tomorrow

IBM Big Data Hub

Our initial curriculum offerings will include three courses: Sustainability and Technology Fundamentals, Data Analytics for Sustainability and Enterprise Thinking for Sustainability. The courses also provide instruction in data analytics contextualized around sustainability use cases.

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Thinking Out Loud: Potential Information

John Battelle's Searchblog

The potential information inside agriculture? Of course, potential information can be leveraged for more than world-beating startups. Chris Anderson’s all over it.

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Botany: one of FSU’s longest taught subjects

Archives Blogs

In 1942, more botany courses were added to the register due to the Pure Seed Law Enactment of 1939. It prepares students to make important contributions to the world in the areas of agriculture, food security, natural resource management, sustainability, policy, and many others.”.

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Web 2 Preview: DigitalGlobe: The World Is The Index

John Battelle's Searchblog

Those images are, of course, digital. Of course it is. OK, so there's the answer for why the US Government is such a big customer (and it's not just military, of course. There's NASA, there's NIH, there's Agriculture, you get the picture, no pun intended). This reality is objective, factual, and indifferent to politics.

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CILIP?s first Thai accreditation at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok

CILIP

CILIP is delighted to announce that two courses at Chulalongkorn (Chula) University have been awarded CILIP accreditation, recognising that they provide solid preparation for professional practice and a suitable base for anybody entering the library, information and knowledge management professions.

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Drawing Benefits: The USIA’s Space Race Message and the Animators Who Brought It to Life

Unwritten Record

This time we will look at And Of Course You , a 1968 film about the global benefits of the Apollo space program. This clip from “ And Of Course You ” highlights the international benefits to be gained from newly-launched weather satellites. And Of Course You ( Local ID: 306.8083 ) is a perfect example of this strategy.

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The Importance of “Legacy” in Colleges and Universities

Rocket Software

North Carolina Central University, NC Agricultural and Technical State University, Alcorn State University, Tennessee State University and East Carolina University. Many schools believe that there is no financial viability to teaching this, and will only consider it when companies financially incentivize these courses.