Twigmore » harvard http://www.twigmore.com Branch Out Sat, 15 May 2010 15:54:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Bringing Computer Science To Other Fields Becomes Increasingly Important http://www.twigmore.com/2009/12/bringing-computer-science-to-other-fields-becomes-increasingly-important/ http://www.twigmore.com/2009/12/bringing-computer-science-to-other-fields-becomes-increasingly-important/#comments Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:00:05 +0000 Peter Baer http://www.twigmore.com/?p=559 articleLargeA good NY Times article highlighting people like Dr. Halamka who is the chief information officer at the Harvard Medical School, a practicing emergency-ward physician and an adviser to the Obama administration on electronic health records.  His hybrid career illustrates how combining computing with other fields like medicine can be an interesting model for new American jobs in the future.

]]> http://www.twigmore.com/2009/12/bringing-computer-science-to-other-fields-becomes-increasingly-important/feed/ 0 NY Times piece on how much a college education — the actual teaching and learning that happens on campus — really matters http://www.twigmore.com/2009/09/ny-times-piece-on-how-much-a-college-education-%e2%80%94-the-actual-teaching-and-learning-that-happens-on-campus-%e2%80%94-really-matters/ http://www.twigmore.com/2009/09/ny-times-piece-on-how-much-a-college-education-%e2%80%94-the-actual-teaching-and-learning-that-happens-on-campus-%e2%80%94-really-matters/#comments Sat, 26 Sep 2009 20:34:55 +0000 Peter Baer http://www.twigmore.com/blog/?p=7

National Public Radio, "20/20" and now the NY
Times are all focusing on whether a college education is worth it. 
There are two sides to the question, but studies including one that found a
large earnings gap between more – and less – educated identical twins seem to
indicate it matters great deal.

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