6. "In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists." ~ Eric Hoffer
10. Wed. Nov. 2, 2011 - Japanese have broken the 10 petaflop barrier. 10.51 quadrillion floating point operations per second. (93% of peak). Japanese IT giant Fujitsu and the government-funded RIKEN research lab - Kobe, Japan
11. What is 10.51 quadrillion floating point operations per second? 10,000,000,000,000,000 (10 followed by 15 zeros) Ten thousand million million
13. 2017/18 - 100 petaflop machines 100 thousand million million
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15. 100,000 times as much ram as Apollo Guidance Computer 1000+ times faster than the computer used to land the orbiter on the moon 16 million colors vs calculator-like display of the AGC
17. Arab Spring really was social media fueled political revolution Three million tweets Gigabytes of YouTube content Thousands of blog posts and Facebook analyzed.
18. 2012 U.S. Presidential Elections 61% of social media users saying they expect candidates to have a social media presence 38% of social media users indicate that information found on social media will help determine their voting choices as much as traditional media sources like TV or newspapers. ~ Harris Interactive September 2011
20. "This is important work because it makes people realize that they can do things on their own-- they have the power to solve their own problems and reduce labor for their everyday tasks." - Bernard Kiwia, Pedal Power Inventor in Arusha, Tanzania
25. Google Chairman Eric tells US senators Apple's Siri could pose 'competitive threat' “ Google has many strong competitors and we sometimes fail to anticipate the competitive threat posed by new methods of accessing information. ” + =
46. 100,000 + enroll for Stanford Artificial Intelligence course - Aug. 2011 LSBF Global MBA on Facebook 34,000 users,
47. Free, Not accredited...yet 1,000 students in business and computer science 30,000 applicants, and 2,000 volunteer instructors, some from prestigious universities
48. Social Media in Higher Ed Methods Randomly assigned 7 first year classes to Twitter/Control groups. Assessed engagement pre & post using NSSE. Assessed end-of-semester GPAs. Results Twitter group had significantly greater increases in engagement and significantly higher grades than control group.