Your Brain on Computers

Excellent series of articles by the NYTimes. One of my favorites and I forgot to publish it after I read the last one, oops.

Articles in this series examine how a deluge of data can affect the way people think and behave.

New Programs for Computer Science and Information Technology

This article was in the NYTimes this morning and it was an affirmation of the direction I am putting in place for my school.

New Programs Aim to Lure Young Into Digital Jobs

Jodi Hilton for The New York Times

Dr. John Halamka today is the chief information officer at the Harvard Medical School.

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50 most frequently looked up words on the NYTimes

N.Y. Times mines its data to identify words that readers find abstruse » Nieman Journalism Lab

If The New York Times ever strikes you as an abstruse glut of antediluvian perorations, if the newspaper’s profligacy of neologisms and shibboleths ever set off apoplectic paroxysms in you, if it all seems a bit recondite, here’s a [...]