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Happy New Year!
Sunday, January 1st, 2012Our 2011 Fall Semester Kickoff!
Tuesday, September 6th, 2011We hope you all had an enjoyable Labor Day weekend and a wonderful Summer as well.
Like you, we are most eager to kickoff the Fall Semester. Over the Summer we have been working towards a Mobile Friendly HTML5 revision of our web pages. But it may be some time before our new page templates are ready for production use. Making things as useable on a cell phone as a wide screen monitor is a serious design challenge that we are still grappling with.
There has been a lot of activity on the Public Policy front of late with a growing sense of urgency about the problem of Patent Trolls who are systematically targeting the engines of innovation in the computer industry, with attempts to use highly dubious Software Patents to go after corporate giants and solo developers alike.
At the IEUC we are closely monitoring this issue and will do our best to keep you informed.
On the Education front, we want to hear from students interested in learning to program and would very much like their thoughts on what works and what doesn’t in any programming courses they may be taking.
In terms of Research, our near term interests are tightly focused on End User Programming and finding ways to use multi-modal interfaces to make Computational Thinking easier to approach. We will probably be employing the latest generation of Web Browsers and/or Android as our research platform in this regard. So if you are a programmer and would like to help, please contact us!
Finally, we are always looking for volunteers and potential Board candidates to join our ranks.
Happy 4th of July!
Monday, July 4th, 2011On this Independence Day we honor the nation and values that brought us the personal computer. We trust in the wisdom of the founders and look to the future with boundless optimism.
Happy New Year!
Wednesday, January 5th, 2011
Everyone at the Institute wishes you a very “Happy New Year”.
2011 promises to be a banner year for the IEUC. We have a lot of new ideas in the works and look forward to serving our fellow End Users!
Stay tuned for more news as we ramp up for the Spring Semester.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Thursday, November 25th, 2010Today we give thanks to the Countless Innovators who created the Personal Computing Revolution — both the Researchers in Academia and the Entrepreneurs in Industry — without whose dedication End User Computing would still be a thing of Science Fiction.
More directly, we thank the past and present participants in the life of the IEUC — The Institute’s Founders, its Officers & Directors, its Advisory Board Members, and the many Donors whose modest contributions over the years have enabled us to do our work for the Public Good.
Unlike any other holiday, Thanksgiving compels us to look back to the roots of our nation and that Pioneering Spirt of Innovation that has driven our pursuit of technological excellence through the daily struggles of ordinary citizens . . . of End Users Like You!
Happy Programmer’s Day!
Monday, September 13th, 2010
Continuing on our Holiday round up, today is Programmer’s Day in Russia. The professional holiday will likely grow in stature and gain traction internationally as more End Users come to recognize the contribution to society made by the world’s computer programmers.
The holiday is celebrated on the 256th day of the year because of the symbolic value of the number 256 as a power of 2, the number of bits in a byte, and the highest power of 2 that is less than the number of days in a year.
Happy Grandparents Day!
Sunday, September 12th, 2010
Today we remember the contributions of our Grandparents be they departed or still with us.
We are particularly grateful to those of them who pioneered the Computer Revolution, building HAM Radios and developing the Foundational Computer Technologies that we all too often take for granted today. If your grandparents participated in this sea change, we encourage you to take some time to listen to their stories and perhaps record them so you can pass this valuable history down to your children.
We’d also like to hear about their contributions to the birth of End User Computing, so do feel free to send us email at: info@ieuc.org.
In Memoriam :: Remembering 9/11
Saturday, September 11th, 2010
It is with deep sorrow and fond memories of those lost that we extend our sympathies to those here in New York and around the world who were touched by the barbarism of 9/11.
Scarcely a day goes by in which the values of our Great Nation and the Western World don’t seem to fall under attack despite the countless benefits that our American entrepreneurial spirit, technological innovation, and willingness to put American lives on the line to defend Freedom the world over — not to seize resources & territory nor to impose our political will on others, but to preserve their Liberty from Tyrants.
Let us never forget the sacrifices of our service members and first responders or the lives snuffed out by those who fear the values they proudly stood for.