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Comment on "A fellow advisee, Louis-Marie"

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:03:36 -0500

Wow, we have the same senior student interviewed...Louis-Marie...lol. He is my officemate, and we know each other for three years. The most important thing is Louis-Marie and I have such the same research interest which is pretty much toward Information, Communication, and Technology policies in developing countries. So, would you like to join us? lol

- Suwan Victor Juntiwasarakij

Comment on "Oct 15th is Blog Action Day!"

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 03:44:03 -0500

This is interesting. I didn't know that there are such many countries. I think I have to begin with #16 and #62 of the 88 ways.

- Hyun-Woo (Anthony) Kim

Comment on "Save a life for $10!"

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:40:31 -0500

That is one the things I was thinking of, that I heard about from an undergrad last year, but I need to evaluate it for myself. It is hard to believe, honestly. What is the business model? Can we 'web game' our way to solving hunger and poverty? If so, maybe i should be spending my time building 'web games'. :-)

- Harry Robinson

Comment on "Save a life for $10!"

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:11:53 -0500

Interesting stuff, Harry! Your post reminds me of the Free Rice website (http://www.freerice.com/index.php), where you don't even have to donate money -- just play a vocabulary game -- to donate rice through the UN World Food program. Yes, it's a measly 20 grains per correct answer, but if enough people play enough times...

- Louise Campbell

Comment on "What is IST, exactly?"

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 15:45:44 -0500

Anna,

I think I agree with you. As graduate students in IST, I think we are supposed to be different, more multifaceted, and, in some ways, a better representation of what IST is than our current faculty. But this may be an idealized vision of the process of becoming a scientist/scholar.

- Harry Robinson

Comment on "What is IST, exactly?"

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 15:37:05 -0500

At the time, I was thinking of the interaction between faculty. It seems like there is interaction in some areas and not others. I think we, as grad students, might see connections between all the research going on that the faculty themselves might not.

- Harry Robinson

Comment on "What is IST, exactly?"

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:40:46 -0500

Hi Harry,

What I liked the most about this post is your creation of a compelling image of an IST graduate student "posing" as a mental model of the very essense of the IST "being".
Stop and think about this image, and it will become clear, why it's left up to the IST graduates to set the record straight, to spread the knowledge about people's side of technology, and to help everybody understand what the IST really stands for.

Anna

- ANNA LEVY

Comment on "What is IST, exactly?"

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:10:17 -0500

Hi Harry,

Is the interaction you are talking about among different centers between faculty members? or between students? i do see lots of interaction between faculty members coming from different disciplines. but is it the same with students?

any formal structure would create a boundary.and that boundary, be it a department or a center or a lab, translates into demarcation of physical spaces. i do understand the need for a structure, but structure does create silos and closely-knit nets, which goes against the philosophy of {inter,multi} disciplinarity.
it is an interesting paradox.
-arvind

- ARVIND KARUNAKARAN

Comment on "Here's an interesting thought:"

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 20:27:16 -0500

Harry this is a great thought! I have noticed that the 12 year old who lives in my house has her cell phone surgically attached to her hand... she is never without it yet her communication skills are lacking. when I ask her what she did in school...she doesn't know. What does she want to be when she grows up... she doesn't know. What is the proper route to get home from the store...she doesn't know. For a girl who can't live without her personal communication device, she does not communicate well at all.

- Michelle Young

Comment on "So who am I?"

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:44:01 -0500

Harry, Harry, Harry... what am I going to do with you? You forgot the most important part at the end of the first paragraph. It should say "It was a beautiful day in a beautiful place with a beautiful woman." Geez.

- Michelle Young