domingo, 14 de junio de 2009

David Merril: Siftables


David Merril is a grad student in the fluid interfaces group at Mit's media lab. He work on new technologies that give us more and better abilities to do things we want to do. His main interest now is the siftables project. A siftables is an interactive computer the size of a cookie they're to be moved around by hand, they can sense eche other, they can sense their motion and they have a screen and wireless radio, they are phisycal like the blocks you can move them just by reaching out and grasping and the are an example of a new ecosystem of tools for manipulating digital information

With this we can start to explore some new and fun interaction styles.

The siftables is configured to show video

An example is a music sequencing and live perfomance tool in wich siftables act as sounds like lead, bass and drums

This is a better match to the way our brains and bodies work

Leadership: What is a leader?


We can say a leader is someone who has followers is a person or thing that leads so we can say leadership is the process of social influence in which one person can enlist the aid and support of others in the accomplishment of a common task

Leadership is a function of knowing yourself, having a vision that is well communicated


The leadership is:


  • Character

  • Vision

  • Ability to create a bond

  • Make people work together

A good leader has:



  • Drive and passion

  • Desire to lead

  • Integrity

  • self confidence

  • Intelligence

  • Job relevant knowledge

Leader Role:



  • Create vision

  • Build Teams

  • Allocate tasks

  • Develop people

  • Motivate Followers

So if you actions inspire others to dream more, do more and lear more then you are a leader.

lunes, 1 de junio de 2009

Unit 1

1.-Re-cen-ly:
Newly; lately; freshly; not long since; as, advices recently received

2.-Sur-ren-der:
1.- To relinquish possesion or control of to another because of demand or compulsion
2.-to give up in favor of another
3.-to give up or give back (something that has been granted)
4.-to give up or abandonn: surrender all hope

3.-Slo-gan
1.-A phrase expressing the aims or nature of an enterprise organization or candidate: a motto
2.-A phrase used repeatedly as in advertising or promotion: "all the slogans"
3.-a battle cry of a scotthis clan

Interview about engineering

I decide to interviw my friend Maria Vivas she is an industrial engineer of luz

Questions:

1.-Could you please define Engineering in your own words?
is the discipline and profession of applying technical and scientific and in order to use natural laws and physical resources to help design and implement structures, machines, materials, systems, and processes that safely realize a desired objetive.

2.-What influenced you to pursueindustrial engineering?
Well because i always liked that career and is a distinction that seems to depend on the viewpoint or motives of the user

3.-Could you please describe the educational process required to become an Engineer?
I can say it's difficult you don't have to be an intelligent person to become an engineer but you need to be patient and study a lot

4.-What are the skills you need to be a good engineer?
You have to be good with numbers and have passion for the carrer, have a lot idea because you apply your skills to very specific areas, industrial engineering is applied in virtually every industry

5.-What job considerations were you looking for after you completed your education?
A job where aplplied my knowledge about engineering i would like to job in a bussines outside the country

6.-What's something of your school life that you enjoy the most?
well the friends who know some will be my colleagues work i hope so and everything that i learned and that made me be a good engineer

7.-From your perspective, what is the most difficult part of being an engineering student?
I think the end of your carreer or the last trimester because is when you start to see how is your carrer and all that awaits you in the future

8.-.-What are your plans for the future?
After graduate i would like to travel to mexico to get a master degree there and who know stay there and work there

9.-Point out your most personally gratifying moment in engineering school.
when i started my interships i was so nice feeling that everything was about to end

10.-Why would you recommend Engineering as a career?
Because is an excellent career if you like it is very clever and you will have the option to work in another country or you can work in a operation management or in any organization or bussines process