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What is Google Glass?
March 26, 2013
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IT and Computer Science
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Google Glass is a smartphone product that you wear on your head as you would a pair of glasses. Just as you’ve seen in futuristic movies, a display shows your view of information and images. It has a video camera that you command by voice to record what you see, take a snapshot or both. You can stream the video you take or share photos in near real-time. With built-in wireless and GPS, you can display onscreen everything you would expect to access on your mobile computer. An army of developers has already created the Explorer Edition and is now busy making apps specifically for Glass.
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This Week's Top 5 Blogs
March 25, 2013
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General
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From ways to thrive as an IT professional to how to job search on your mobile device to advice from some of our distinguished lecturers, here is a sampling of this week's top blogs.
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Developing Your Leadership Principles
March 22, 2013
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Business and Management
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One of my graduate students recently asked about my principles for effective, successful leadership. I had to think about this and reflect. What seemed like a simple task became an exercise in putting together a list of what I’ve learned over the past 30 years of my career. Any leadership list starts with defining your values as a leader and compiling lessons learned from valuable experience.
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What it Takes to Be a Cop: A Personal Perspective
March 21, 2013
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Criminal Justice
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I’m often asked, “What does it take to be a cop?” I don’t always have a complete answer to offer, mostly because my response has changed over the years. Of course, I could give you the basics: how many many push-ups you have to do, how quickly you must run a mile and a half and how you can’t ever have used narcotics or hard drugs. But you could find all this basic information with a quick scan of the agency website that you’re interested in joining. So maybe reading about my law enforcement career will give you insight into what it takes to be a cop.
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Is Cloud Computing the New ‘Green’ Solution?
March 20, 2013
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IT and Computer Science
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Today, cloud computing is one of the most cost effective ways of managing enterprises and web applications. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) explains that cloud computing enables "…on-demand network access to a shared pool of networks, servers, storage, applications and services that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction.” It’s convenient and efficient technology, for sure.
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A Picture of Threat: Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
March 19, 2013
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Homeland Security
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The French military intervention in Mali in late January 2013 against Islamist militants and their allies succeeded, for the present, in preventing these groups from overrunning the capital, Bamako. They subsequently drove them out of most of the north of the country including the cities of Timbuktu and Gao. Conflicts in the African continent are, of course, not new and most of them do not result in foreign military intervention.
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Technology in the Classroom for Personalized Learning
March 18, 2013
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Higher Education
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What is personalized learning? During the last several years, there’s been a movement to provide students in the classroom with the specific information they need through technology, rather than making students read content and sit through lectures they don’t need. Instead of working with material that’s either too advanced or not advanced enough, what if students could use material that was just right for them?
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CTU Distinguished Lecturer Series: The Future of Managing Health Care
March 15, 2013
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Health Sciences
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The CTU Distinguished Lecturer Series continues on March 28th with Ken Vance, Senior Vice President of Bank of America Merrill Lynch in their Specialized Industry Group focusing on health care. With more than 33 years in the financial and health care industries, Ken shared his insight on the future of health care management and its opportunities.
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How to Job Search on Your Mobile Device
March 14, 2013
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Career Advice
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Today, cellphones are capable of so much more than making a call. They can even help your job search. Checking out jobs using a mobile application, emailing potential employers, updating your LinkedIn profile and conducting an interview on your mobile phone -- these are just a few of the ways cellphones have become integrated into a job search.
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How to Thrive as an IT Professional
March 13, 2013
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IT and Computer Science
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The Information Technology (IT) function has become increasingly important to overall decision-making and strategy implementation in businesses. That’s not surprising when you consider how technology drives competitive advantage. Innovation enables businesses to stay ahead of the competition, delivering and satisfying more customers more effectively and efficiently. Further, IT is now an important revenue generator as an increasing share of consumer sales are transacted through mobile and online channels.
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