The Google+ Huddle

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The Grass Is Always Greener

This is a great item for individuals leaving an organization as we always think the grass is greener on the other side.

This picture was taken from http://billvane.tumblr.com/ and the twitter account is http://twitter.com/#!/billvane which belongs to Maria Vanessa.

Maurice Dawson's VisualCV - Maurice Dawson, DCompSci, MBA, MS

Maurice Dawson's VisualCV - Maurice Dawson, DCompSci, MBA, MS

VisualCV is a great tool to share your CV thus I highly encourage all to create a page as it is free.

VisualCV at http://www.visualcv.com 

A New Generation of Robotic Weapons

Several manufacturers and research facilities are changing the face of the battlefield with robots.  Distinguishing friend from foe is especially challenging.

See interactive  link http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/11/27/us/ROBOT.html?ref=science

The Science in Society Conference 2011

The Science in Society Conference 2011

Background
Supporters

Welcome to the website of the Third International Conference on Science in Society, to be held at the The Catholic University of America, Washington DC, USA from 5 to 7 August 2011. This Conference will address disciplinary and interdisciplinary challenges in the sciences, and in particular the relationships of science to society.

Key themes addressed by the Conference include the social impacts of science, the values and ethics of science, the pedagogies of science, the knowledge-making processes of science, the politics of science and the economics of science. At first glance, the scope and concerns of the Conference are enormous. However, in contrast to conferences with a specialist disciplinary focus, this Conference aims to explore, in an interdisciplinary spirit, linkages between different areas of concern and practices of investigation. We welcome presentation proposals which range from broad explorations of philosophical, theoretical, methodological and policy questions, to proposals which present finely grained evidence of the connections of science to society in microcosms of research, teaching and practice.

Participants at the Conference will include researchers, teachers, administrators and policy makers from the basic natural-physical sciences, the applied sciences, the social sciences, history and philosophy of science, the humanities, and the professions.

Plenary speakers will include some of the world’s leading thinkers in the various fields which are concerned with the relationships of science to society, as well as numerous paper, colloquium and workshop presentations by practitioners, teachers and researchers.

Participants are welcome to submit a presentation proposal either for a 30-minute paper, 60-minute workshop, or a jointly presented 90-minute colloquium session. Parallel sessions are loosely grouped into streams reflecting different perspectives or disciplines. Each stream also has its own talking circle, a forum for focused discussion of issues. For those unable to attend the Conference in person, virtual participation is also available.

We encourage all presenters to submit written papers to The International Journal of Science in Society, a fully refereed academic Journal. Virtual participants may also may also submit papers for consideration by the Journal. All Conference participants who have finalised their registration will receive a complimentary online subscription to the Journal. This subscription is valid until one year after the Conference end date.

If you would like to know more about this Conference, bookmark the Science in Society site and return for further information-the site is regularly updated. You may also wish to subscribe to the Conference and Journal Newsletter.

For all inquiries, please contact the Conference secretariat.

Background

International Conference on Science in Society

The Inaugural Science in Society Conference was held at the University of Cambridge United Kingdom, in 2009.

The Science in Society Conference is a presenter’s conference, comprised of numerous parallel sessions.The Conference organising committee is inviting proposals to present 30-minute papers, or 60-minute workshops or 90-minute colloquium sessions. These may be:

• Academic or research papers, or
• Presentations describing educational initiatives.

The International Journal of Science in Society

Conference participants may submit papers to the Science in Society Journal, before the Conference and up until one month after the Conference. Papers submitted for publication will be fully refereed. The publication decision is based on the referees’ reports.

For those unable to attend the Conference in person, a virtual registration will provide participants access to the electronic version of the Journal, as well as the option to submit papers to the Science in Society Journal.

For more information about the Journal please visit the Publish Your Paper page.

Developments in e-Systems Engineering 2011 Dubia

It is my pleasure to invite you, on behalf of the DESE11 Conference Organization Committee, to Contribute to the fourth annual conference on Developments in eSystems Engineering (DeSE'11) to be held in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) from 14th to 16th December 2009. 

In addition, there will be the possibility to participate online, a practical and inexpensive way to contribute, if you cannot make in person it to Abu Dhabi in December 2011. 

Currently a high level of interest is being generated through the development of a wide and varied range of eSystems. There are many high profile projects, all around the world, seeking to transfer many services and facilities into state-of-the-art electronic technologies. DeSE'09 will cover a mix of topics aimed to address current research issues in the design, engineering and adoption of eSystems.

The registration fee has been kept at minimum to encourage participation; even if you cannot make it to UAE you can still get it published, and present the paper online (in fact this particular option only cost $100)
please see refer to this link for details  http://cmsdlserver.cms.livjm.ac.uk/dese/dese09/default.aspx?id=58&fkPageID=58&Parent= 

The conference comprises an exciting spectrum of highly stimulating symposia, which include but not limited to:

.  e-Learning (Technology Enhanced Learning)
.  e-Systems and AI
.  e-Business and Management
.  e-Government systems, Autonomic Computing
.  e-Health and e-Medicine
.  e-Science and Technology
.  e-Entertainment and Creative Technologies
.  e-Security and e-Forensics
.  e-Built Environment
.  e-Systems Engineering, Design, Modelling and Simulation

Please submit full papers describing original research on any aspect of eSystem Engineering, Modelling and Applications, to be presented at this three day conference in Abu Dhabi. 

Authors will have their submissions reviewed by international experts and accepted papers will be published in the IEEE for worldwide presence. The event provides authors with an outstanding opportunity for networking and presenting their work at an international conference. The location offers an especially attractive opportunity for professional discussion, socialising and sightseeing.
All papers must be in English and the length should not exceed 6 pages for standard papers or 10 pages for long papers of A4 size and should conform to the IEEE Format. Accepted papers will have to be presented in the conference by at least one of the authors.
Papers conforming to required specifications should be submitted through EDAS Conference Management System. 
Important dates are as follows:
.  Submission of papers June 15, 2011 
.  Notification of acceptance  July 18, 2011 
.  Submission of camera-ready papers  August 8, 2011 
.  Author online registration  August 15, 2011 

More information about the DESE09 conference can be found at www.dese.org.uk  by following the DESE09 link (we intend for the conference website to be more complete with uptodate information in the next few days)

Please feel free to forward any question or queries to me directly and hope to hear from you soon

Best Regards

Atulya K. Nagar,

DeSE'09 Conference and TPC Chair.----------------------------------------------------------------------------

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ICERI2011 (4th International Conference of Education Research and Innovation)

14 to 16 November 2011
Madrid, Spain

Website: http://www.iceri2011.org/ Contact name: Technical Secretariat

Conference Announcement / Call for papers

ICERI2011 (4th International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation)
14th, 15th and 16th of November, 2011
Madrid (Spain)
Website: http://www.iceri2011.org 
The deadline to submit your abstract is 14th of July 2011. You can do it at
http://www.iceri2011.org/submit 

We invite you to take part in ICERI2011,

The International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation will take
place in the beautiful city of Madrid (SPAIN)

This conference will be held at international level. The attendance of more
than 700 delegates from 70 different countries is expected.

You can present your papers in 3 presentation modalities: ORAL, POSTER or VIRTUAL

ICERI2011 will be an excellent opportunity to present your projects and
discuss the latest results in the field Education, Research and Innovation. We
invite you to submit your abstracts and to attend in order to share your
achievements in the fields of education and collaborative research. The
deadline for submitting abstracts is July 14th, 2011

Two ISBN publications will be produced with all accepted abstracts and papers:
ICERI2011 Abstract CD and ICERI2011 Proceedings CD. The accepted contributions
will be included in our Digital Library database of innovation projects in
Education and Research.

Apart from the professional experience, you will be able to enjoy the capital
of Spain, its historical places, cultural offer and unique gastronomy.

We look forward to seeing you in Madrid next November 2011!
Best regards,

ICERI2011 Technical Secretariat
Email:iceri2011@iated.org 

New Colorado Tech Video

I am always impressed with the commercials that Colorado Technical University (CTU) puts out however this one is rather nice.  View video below.

Alabama A&M University Site Redesign

I must say I have been awaiting a long redesign of Alabama A&M University's webpage.  Today it has happened.  The new website has been unveiled and I must say I am truly impressed.  Kudos to the webdesign team on making this happen.  Please view page at http://www.aamu.edu/Pages/default.aspx

Alabama A&M University Website

Dissertation Defense

I have located my doctoral dissertation defense at this link http://breeze.careeredonline.com/p97245467

Enjoy!

IAENG Membership Letter

I received my official membership letter to the International Association of Engineers (IAENG).  Today is an exciting day indeed.

10 Famous and Successful Alumni of Online Colleges

This morning I came across this post by Theresa Donahue which I thought I would share.  The information below was directly taken from http://onlineuniversitydata.com/2010/50-online-university-professors-on-twitter-worth-following/ and visit original link as there is a lot more information to view.

10 Famous and Successful Alumni of Online Colleges

By Theresa Donahue
October 19th, 2009

What would prompt you to earn a degree through an online college? For the successful and/or famous people listed below, travel, work and careers forced their hands, as they could not attend college when fixed schedules didn’t jive with their current lifestyles. While you might recognize names such as Shaquille O’Neal, other names listed below aren’t as familiar — but all the people listed below used online education to become successful in their endeavors.
The people listed below are in alphabetical order by given name, as we believe that Christie Keplinger’s success is just as important as Shaquille O’Neal’s fame.

1. Christie Keplinger: You don’t need to be famous to be successful, and Mark Twain knew this when he stated, “Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.” Keplinger found a flier in her local newspaper that led this working mother to two college degrees and a pivotal job promotion. She achieved her first degree at regionally-accredited Eastern West Virginia Community and Technical College, and then she took advantage of another Eastern program — its partnership in the Community College Alliance with Franklin University of Columbus, Ohio. She earned her bachelor of science degree in accounting in December 2006 and was immediately promoted to vice president of Member Services at the bank where she worked.
2. Kerrii B. Anderson: This former president and CEO of Wendy’s International earned a 2007 cash compensation of $950,000. He was a graduate of Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, a division of the college that now is largely Internet-based. She also serves on the Board of Visitors of the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University and the Board of Trustees of Franklin University.
3. Kirkland H. Donald: Admiral Donald graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1975 with a bachelor’s degree in oceanic engineering. He then went on to achieve his master’s degree in business administration from the University of Phoenix. Additionally, he is a graduate of Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government Senior Executive Fellows Program. He currently is the director of the Naval Nuclear Propulsion unit and is is authorized to wear the Navy Distinguished Service Medal, Defense Superior Service Medal, Legion of Merit with four gold stars, and the Meritorious Service Medal with one gold star, in addition to several other personal and unit awards.
4. Lisa Leslie: When Lisa was age fourteen, universities such as Stanford contacted her, asking her to join them and to help boost their women’s basketball teams. She won a number of championships for her school in California, and enrolled in the University of Southern California for her undergraduate degree. She graduated in 1994 and, soon after, became part of the University of Phoenix’s list of notable alumni when she pursued a post-graduate degree in business administration. She also has modeled with the Wilhelmina Agency.
5. Lonnie B. Hodge: This guy has done it all, including accomplishing an online degree at New York Regents (now Excelsior University), where he declared he “never set foot on campus,” and upon graduation he was accepted into a traditional M.A. in education at the University of Colorado. He also accomplished an MFA in writing at Vermont College., and won a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in writing (poetry) for work he created while studying at Vermont. Hodge now is a professor who teaches language, culture and global marketing in southern China and is the creator and CEO of Culture Fish Media, a social media agency.
6. Ross Mitchell: What better way to make your future successful than to blaze it yourself? When Ross Mitchell graduated from the nation’s first online-only law school at the Los Angeles-based Concord Law School four years ago, he knew that this school’s lack of American Bar Association (ABA) approval would disqualify him from taking the Massachusetts bar examination. But he sought permission anyway, taking his case all the way to the state’s Supreme Judicial Court and in November he won his case. In 10 years, Concord Law School has grown from 33 students to roughly 1,500. Mitchell’s was the first case in which a Concord graduate won the right to take a state bar exam by filing suit and appearing before that state’s Supreme Court.
7. Sarah Chenowith: You may wonder why this link leads to Sarah’s LinkedIn page, where you can learn about her role as the DNA Technical Leader at Anne Arundel County Police Department. If you scroll down, you’ll notice that she earned her MS in forensic DNA and serology through distance learning from the University of Florida in 2005. In her success story, printed at AOL, she stated, “In order to become a DNA technical leader (the senior position in most DNA testing labs), the FBI requires a master’s degree and several specific graduate-level courses. No universities in the area offered a degree with this specific focus, making it impossible for me to attend traditional classes without leaving my employer.” Since then, she’s encouraged three co-workers to enter the same degree program.
8. Shaquille O’Neal: This famous basketball player spent more than a year taking classes and doing online work for a master’s degree in business administration at the University of Phoenix. He graduated in 2005, making good on a promise to his mother to complete his education after leaving Louisiana State University as a junior in 1992 to turn pro. He completed his bachelor’s degree in business from LSU in 2000. He plans to earn his future doctorate in psychology.
9. Sharon T. Freeman: This woman earned her PhD online at Walden in applied management and decision sciences in 1998, going on to work with foreign aid and institutional reform in overseas countries. She has written a book, Conversations With African Women Leaders, and was recently named a subcontractor on a $2.4 billion Booz Allen contract with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), which administers foreign aid to expand democracy and free markets.
10. Timothy Gates: As a Navy officer in Iceland, Gates enrolled in Strayer University’sonline courses to earn an accounting degree in 2005. He credits Stayer’s quarter system with allowing him to finish his undergraduate degree in such a short time. Based on the scientific merit and potential utility of his work, Gates recently placed third in the annual J. Dewey Lutes Peer Research Competition. He was also inducted into Upsilon Phi Delta, a national honor society for students in health care administration. Gates is a member and fellow of The American College of Healthcare Executives, the premier accrediting body for health care administrators.

IAENG Societies & Journals

Recently I came across an engineering society that is free to join.  This society hosts a large conference every year in an international location.  The World Congress on Engineering (WCE) 2011 can be found here http://www.iaeng.org/conferences.html Below is more information relating to the IAENG societies and peer reviewed journals.

IAENG Societies

The IAENG Societies are organized to cover the different engineering and computer science disciplines. The IAENG Societies are a major component of IAENG. Through regularly scheduled conferences and workshops, the IAENG Societies serve as forums for networking, information sharing, idea exchange and problem solving for the engineering communities in their corresponding disciplines. The committee members of the IAENG Societies can voluntarily organize different activities for their Society members, and take part in organizing the IAENG conferences and workshops.

IAENG Societies

IAENG Society of Artificial Intelligence
IAENG Society of Bioinformatics
IAENG Society of Chemical Engineering
IAENG Society of Computer Science
IAENG Society of Data Mining
IAENG Society of Electrical Engineering
IAENG Society of Imaging Engineering
IAENG Society of Industrial Engineering
IAENG Society of Information System Engineering
IAENG Society of Internet Computing and Web Services
IAENG Society of Mechanical Engineering
IAENG Society of Operations Research
IAENG Society of Scientific Computing
IAENG Society of Software Engineering
IAENG Society of Wireless Networks
IAENG Society for HIV/AIDS

Interested IAENG members can join the above IAENG societies free of charge by filling the online application: IAENG Society Membership Online Application Form And non-IAENG members can firstly join IAENG free of charge at www.iaeng.org/membership.html IAENG Online Journals IAENG aims to publish journals, conference proceedings and books with a comprehensive covering of all the major branches of engineering. Each journal and conference proceeding has their own web page and is available to accredited universities and government librariesin hard-copy format and online format with no charge. Engineering Letters Engineering Letters is published with both online and print versions. The journal covers the frontier issues in the engineering and the computer science and their applications in business, industry and other subjects. The computer science is a branch of engineering science that studies computable processes and structures. It contains theories for understanding computing systems and methods; computational algorithms and tools; methodologies for testing of concepts. The subjects covered by the journal include artificial intelligence, bioinformatics, computational statistics, database, data mining, financial engineering, hardware systems, imaging engineering, industrial engineering, internet computing, networking, operations research, scientific computing, software engineering, and their applications etc. ISSN: 1816-0948 (online version); 1816-093X (print version) The current editorial committee of the journal includes members of research center heads, faculty deans, department heads, professors, research scientists, experienced software development directors and engineers from over 20 countries. Printed copies of the journal are distributed to accredited universities and government libraries. All the papers in the journal are also available freely with online full-text content and permanent worldwide web link. The abstracts will be indexed and available at major academic databases. Submissions Engineering Letters welcomes author submission of the paper concerning any branch of engineering and computer science and their applications in business, industry and other subjects. All submitted papers are submitted to peer-reviewed to ensure their quality. And go to view the details of the journal Engineering Letters. IAENG International Journal of Computer Science IAENG International Journal of Computer Science is published with both online and print versions. The journal covers the frontier issues in the computer science. Printed copies of the journal are distributed to accredited universities and government libraries. All the papers in the journal are also available freely with online full-text content and permanent worldwide web link. The abstracts will be indexed and available at major academic databases. ISSN: 1819-9224 (online version); 1819-656X (print version) IAENG International Journal of Computer Science welcomes author submission of papers concerning any branch of the computer science and their applications in business, industry and other subjects. The subjects covered by the journal include artificial intelligence, bioinformatics, computational statistics, database, data mining, financial engineering, hardware systems, imaging engineering, internet computing, networking, scientific computing, software engineering, and their applications etc. All submitted papers are to be peer-reviewed for ensuring their qualities. And go to view the details of the journal at: http://www.iaeng.org/IJCS/index.html IAENG International Journal of Applied Mathematics IAENG International Journal of Applied Mathematics is published with both online and print versions. The journal covers the frontier issues in the applied mathematics and their applications in business, industry, science and other subjects. Applied Mathematics is a branch of mathematics that concerns itself with the connections between mathematics and other domains with the applications of the mathematical knowledge. A broad spectrum of applied mathematics is covered by the journal. The subjects include differential equations (ODEs and PDEs), numerical analysis, scientific computing, approximation theory and representation theory, matrix theory, mathematical physics, mathematical methods of engineering, optimization, operations research, linear and nonlinear programming, continuous modelling control theory, mathematical biology, bioinformatics, information theory, game theory, probability, mathematical economics, financial mathematics, actuarial science, cryptography, graph theory, statistics, theoretical computer science, stochastic systems theory, neuroscience, mechanics of solids, materials science and fluids etc. ISSN: 1992-9986 (online version); 1992-9978 (print version) IAENG International Journal of Applied Mathematics welcomes author submission of papers concerning any branch of the applied mathematics and their applications in business, industry and other subjects. The subjects include differential equations (ODEs and PDEs), numerical analysis, scientific computing, approximation theory and representation theory, matrix theory, mathematical physics, mathematical methods of engineering, optimization, operations research, linear and nonlinear programming, continuous modelling control theory, mathematical biology, bioinformatics, information theory, game theory, probability, mathematical economics, financial mathematics, actuarial science, cryptography, graph theory, statistics, theoretical computer science, stochastic systems theory, neuroscience, mechanics of solids, materials science and fluids etc. All submitted papers are to be peer-reviewed for ensuring their qualities. And go to view the details of the journal at: http://www.iaeng.org/IJAM/index.html

Excellence in Presentation Awards--ABWIC/ICLAHE Conferences

2011 Joint Meeting of the
Academic Business World International Conference
and
International Conference on Learning and Administration in Higher Education

Maurice Dawson:

I wish to thank you for your participation in our Conferences. Your involvement is a critical ingredient for success and we thank you most sincerely.

I hope that everyone is settled back into their non-conference rountines. We thoroughly enjoyed visiting with everyone and as usual made some new friends and even learned a thing or two. We will put all of the excellent advice we received into our next Conference—which will be May 23^rd, 24^th, and 25^th, 2012 at the Holiday Inn Vanderbilt in Nashville, TN.

This was our biggest year yet with 171 papers being presented. Despite the rough spots (bad weather, people having travel problems, Internet issues, printer problems, no shows, and one projector breaking) we were able to carry on with little distraction. For the first time we had live and interactive remote presentations (Azerbaijan, Greece, Italy, Taiwan, Washington, and California). While we do not wish to encourage remote presentations they did enable us to overcome some emergency situations.

I heard several comments concerning the quality of many presentations. The winners of the Excellence in Presentation Awards are listed below. Each presenter will received a certificate via postal mail shortly.

Thank you and we hope to see you again next year,

Edd

Dr. Edd R. Joyner, Joint Conference Chair

EddJoyner@charter.net

ejoyne01@baker.edu

http://ABWIC.org and http://ICLAHE.org 

Academic Business World International Conference

International Conference on Learning and Administration in Higher Education

I received 3 presentation awards during this conference.  This was unexpected news that brought a smile to my face and continues to reassure me that my research is of high interest to the rest of the academic community.