Posts for the ‘Computer Science’ Category
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Nutrition and Web 2.0 is a new collection of resources on Webicina.com that features selected nutrition blogs, news sites, podcasts, Youtube channels, mobile applications and slideshows, among others. As the number of nutrition resources is huge, it was a challenge to find the most relevant content.
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Science Commons
The videos from Science Commons Symposium are now live online!
As many of you know, we recently held an event called Science Commons Symposium at the Microsoft campus in Redmond Washington. It was a day full of presentations from leaders in the fields of Open Science, Open Access and Open Data. The conversations that took [...]
Daniel Lemire
Even if you have extensive training in Mathematics, the average Mathematics paper is undistinguishable from the ramblings of a madman. Many of these papers seek to solve narrow problems. And yet, we respect Mathematicians.
Software programming is a form of communication, usually between human beings and machines. While different in style, programming is a subset [...]
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I guess the Street Anatomy blog will like that. Porcelain brain tumor made by Christina Haase. It looks really realistic.
(Hat Tip: Idegenszövet)
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I have many reasons to use Twitter. One of them is that it’s quite easy to get feedback from doctors who also use Twitter for communication. Now one of my stories was featured in the New York Times.
Some people are even using Twitter for more urgent questions. Bertalan Meskó, a medical student at the [...]
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I guess everybody knows the Did you know video series focusing on different internet-related statistics, but this one is really spectacular and unique.
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Nursing and Web 2.0 is a new collection of resources on Webicina.com that features selected nursing blogs, news sites, podcasts, Youtube channels, mobile applications and slideshows, among others. As the number of nursing resources is huge, it was a challenge to find the most relevant content.
We also help you follow news, journals, blogs and Twitter [...]
Daniel Lemire
My current employer, UQAM, refuses to allow email forwarding. Students would rather forward their emails to their existing GMail accounts, for example. And the IT Department (the SITEL) agrees that it would have several benefits. However, they refuse to allow it for the following reasons:
Email forwarding mail create infinite email loops. These may disrupt [...]
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In the fifth week of my Internet in Medicine university credit course, the focus is on the world of e-patients when I present several real e-patients stories, examples when patients could successfully improve their health by using online pieces of information or communities. Here is a new story I will have to mention this March. [...]
Science For SEO Partial
This year a number of topics specific to online business strategies (of which SEO, social media, data mining and other such great things) come to mind. They are on my drawing board and will receive attention as the year unfolds. Last year allowed for some foundations to be laid and now everything looks a [...]
Chris Pietschmann
Something that can be usefull at times in being able to calculate the total Area of a circle, especially when plotting it on a map. So, I decided to slightly modify my “Draw a Circle Radius Around Lat/Lng Point” to make it also calculate the Area of the circles and display that value within [...]
Daniel Lemire
According to student evaluations, most of my students appreciate short programming assignments. Yet, every year, some students think that programming is below them or unimportant.
Maybe I should start my courses with this theorem:
Theorem. If you understand an idea, you can implement it in software.
There is no denying that programming requires a lot of technical [...]
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Mobile Monday Amsterdam is a fantastic series of events and when Maarten den Braber invited me to speak about medicine 2.0 I was very sad not to be able to make it. But a few of my friends did attend and gave great presentations:
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I’ve been constantly updating a huge list of biomedical community sites for years and now the list contains 44 sites, but here are two new ones.
VIVO: The national network of scientists will facilitate the discovery of researchers and collaborators across the country. Institutions will participate in the network by installing VIVO, or by [...]
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The web is exceptionally rich in genetics-related content so it was time to publish the Genetics and Web 2.0 collection on Webicina.com as well as PeRSSonalized Genetics that lets you keep track of the latest news and resources in the field of genetics in a personalized way. A few of the many great examples how [...]