COEIT Software Engineering
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A whole new world: Education meets the metaverse
Ready to move backward and descend into the year 300 BC!
"Imagine a circular classroom, surrounded by white boards and populated with movable chairs. Energized students are mesmerized by the tales of the Greek myths, the power of Zeus the god of the...
March 25, 2022 · 1:11 PM
The true size of Africa and web tools!
Lessons from The West Wing: Africa's size=14x of Greenland's
"It is hard to represent our spherical world on flat piece of paper. Cartographers use something called a "projection" to morph the globe into 2D map. The most popular of these is the Mercator...
March 18, 2022 · 1:05 PM
How Twitter plans to add its next 100 million users
Make the product more participatory and approachable
"Twitter has an enormous goal: the company wants to add another 100 million daily users by the end of 2023 -- a growth of about 50 percent from where it is today. To do that, Twitter is going to...
March 11, 2022 · 12:16 PM
Innovation happens here and elsewhere: welcoming 2022!
Engineering vaccines and lithium-metal batteries!
As we close 2021 and look forward to 2022, the biggest stories of our time are full of hope and promise. Just as we were able to apply a 20-year-old technology to rapidly create vaccines to save...
December 31, 2021 · 5:10 PM
Software systems that dynamically modify their algorithms!
The future is autonomic powered by software
As enterprises grow, traditional programming or simple automation will not scale. Autonomic systems are self-managing physical or software systems that learn from their environments. Unlike...
December 28, 2021 · 7:35 PM
Free open-source software. Who pays for it?
The internet runs on free open-source software. Really!
Right now, Volkan Yazici is working 22 hour days for free. Yazici is a member of the Log4J project, an open-source tool used widely to record activity inside various types of software. It helps...
December 19, 2021 · 9:57 PM
The future of software!
The diffusion of new data-rich, AI-driven applications
"Get ready for Software 2.0, where neural networks and machine learning write code and create new software. “This tech trend makes possible the rapid scaling and diffusion of new data-rich,...
December 8, 2021 · 9:36 PM
A to-do app for $200 million!
What can we learn from Wunderlist?
When you build great software applications, people notice. You can sell what seems like a simple to-do app for a price of $100 million to $200 million to the software giant of our times. Software...
November 19, 2021 · 4:29 PM
How to build the next killer app for meaning and money!
Ethics and advanced software engineering
We are offering two graduate level software engineering courses for spring 2022. Both courses are being developed from the ground up with fresh content and an eye towards bringing compelling and...
November 12, 2021 · 9:53 PM
The original software engineer
Software engineering helped send astronauts to the moon!
When Margaret Hamilton was a child, her father used to take her on long drives through Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. They would talk the whole time about “philosophy—related things,” the software...
November 4, 2021 · 8:05 PM

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