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Nobel Laureate Science and Engineering Lectures

Honeywell sponsors and hosts some great Nobel Laureate Science and Engineering Lectures via their HoneywellEvents YouTube Channel. Just posted to the channel are a series of three videos on "how science evolves": Professor Sheldon Glashow, who shared the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1979,  illustrates how some scientific advances occur. Some advances arise unexpectedly, such as X-rays and penicillin,  while others are designed with a purpose.

• Does Science Evolve Through Blind Chance, or Intelligent Design?
  • Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

You will also find recent lectures posted via HoneywellEvents on these topics. 

• How Advances in Science are Made
  (and) 
• The Superfluid Phases of Liquid Helium Three

If these lectures are of interest, Honeywell also has a service dedicated to science and engineering, including these Nobel lectures.

Finally, I have added these lectures to my Engineering Learning Portal hosted via my domain, including the special section focused upon Nobel lectures. You will even find a custom built Google search engine which allows you to find specific Nobel lectures.

Learn more via Wikipedia about Alfred Nobel, and the Nobel Prizes.

Learn Klingon!

While most of you thought the really big news was yesterday's Amazon's Kindle Fire announcement (see my post), or the expected new iPhone from Apple ... we're all wrong! Tomorrow you will finally be able to learn Klingon. Now that is BIG news. Trekkies unite to boldly go where no man has gone before!

If you want access to more mundate eLearning, link to my learning portal. You will find great engineering and general web based learning resources (all free), including custom Google search engines which I built to aide finding content.

Don't let yourself get caught in this situation! from Star Trek!

Learn to Code

It's been a while since I have added a new learning site to my Engineering Learning Portal (software engineering section), but Codecademy deserves the mention. This site is great at teaching one the basics of coding, including javascript. Worth a visit. The courses are free.

If you haven't checked out my learning portal in a while, remember it has a wealth of engineering and management eLearning courses and manuals along with accompanying custom Google search engines built by myself. It's Fall, time to head back to school via the web and learn something new! 

All the resources linked are available without charge!

Google vs Apple Software Development

I am not an object oriented programmer, but if I was I would take Stanford's free course on how to develop apps for the Apple iPad / iTouch / iPhone environment. Given the huge uptake on this technology, I did watch the 1st session of the Stanford course which gives a techie like me an understanding of the Apple iOS. Starting at 16:41 of the first lecture, the course gives a quick overview of how Apple's development system is constructed. This course is just one example of iTunesU!

I've added this course link to my Engineering Learning Portal Software Engineering Section.

However, if Apple is not your cup of tea (or fruit), then spend some time reviewing Google's long list of software engineering research. You may read / download the abstracts or the full papers. As with the Apple course, I've added this content to my Software Engineering Section and Manuals Section of the Engineering Learning Portal.

Make Love or Engineering Music for the Holidays!

It's two days till Thanksgiving in the United States, which is the official start of the holiday season. Stores are gearing up for "Black Friday" (Wikipedia link). However, if you're trying to ignore rampant commercialism and have combined technical /musical leanings, what better way to spend some free time over the holidays than watching some free engineering lectures from Academic Earth's Video Reading List: The Sound of Music?! While your friends worry about which new video game to purchase for their sweetheat, you could be learning ... from Stanford, MIT and Berkeley:

• ChucK: A Computer Music Programming Language
• MySong: Automatic Accompaniment for Vocal Melodies
• Musical Instruments, Sound Cavities, and Normal Modes
• Traveling Waves and Standing Waves (Musical Instruments)
• Copyright Applied to Music and Computers: Peer-to-Peer File Sharing
• Nervous System XI
• Aliasing Demonstration With Music

Ah yes, I mentioned love in the title. Assuming you can't handle music and engineering, escape to Yale University and watch: Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Love

As always, Academic Earth (and all of these lectures) is part of my Engineering Learning Portal, complete with many custom built Google Search Engines. Happy Thanksgiving!