Ethical Issues
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Administrative Details, Exams - Time limit, Conflicts, Course Grade Breakdown, Assignment Details - Submission, Grading, Late Days, Course Email, Newsgroup, Facebook/Twitter, Mailing List, Course Prerequisites, Languages and Paradigms Taught - C++ vs. Pure C, Procedural Paradigm vs. Object-Oriented Paradigm, Assembly, Concurrent Programming Overview, Example of Data Sharing Issues with Concurrent Programming, Scheme, Functional Paradigm...more
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Speier and best-selling author Deborah Collins Stephens talk about politics within public and private sectors. Speier discusses how the freedom to explore issues is absent in the private sector. Stephens talks about how power plays an important role in the politics of public sectors. She stresses that it is necessary for people to have a lot of will power in order for them to rise above in the public sector.
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In this lecture, two important issues are addressed in the context of Locke's Second Treatise. First, there is discussion on the role of the executive vis-a-vis the legislative branch of government in Locke's theory of the constitutional state. Second, Locke's political theories are related to the American regime and contemporary American political philosophy. The lecture concludes with John Rawls' book, A Theory of Justice, and how his...more
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After a mock trial session to whittle down the most critical causes from an applicant pool of 10,000, Google.org chose just five areas of concentration: renewable energy, plug-in vehicles, prevention of pandemics, famines, and floods, public services for the poor, and job creation. And the organization's Executive Director, Larry Brilliant, offers this overview of these pressing global issues, and pinpoints Google's resources dedicated...more
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Lecture 20 continues the discussion of the value of life. It considers the neutral container theory, which holds that the value of life is simply a function of its contents, both pleasant and painful, and contrasts this with the valuable container theory, which assigns value to being alive itself. The lecture then turns to a consideration of some of the other aspects of death that may contribute to the badness of death. Among the issues...more
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Review Of Sampling And Interpolation Results, Terminology: Sampling Rate, Nyquist Rate, Issues With The Interpolation Formula In Practical Applications, Aliasing And Interpolation, Main Argument In Aliasing, Example Of Aliasing: Cosine
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This lecture explores issues and ideas related to the branch of psychology known as cognitive development. It begins with an introduction of Piaget who, interested in the emergence of knowledge in general, studied children and the way they learn about the world in order to formulate his theories of cognitive development. This is followed by an introduction to the modern science of infant cognition. Finally, the question of the...more
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Lecture by Professor Al Camarillo for the Presidential Politics: Race, Class, Faith & Gender in the 2008 Election (CSRE12) course. Professor Camarillo discusses why and how race, faith, gender and class matter.
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Kelley describes three important steps in starting a company: 1) Follow your passion 2) Hire great people 3) Focus on process. His passion is design, but there must be a balance between passion and business issues. People often worry too much about the financial side of the company and fail on the emotional side of the company, he says.
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Carol Bartz, CEO of Autodesk for many years, underlines the silver lining for many stagnating issues in the workplace. Making a plan for yourself is a good idea, but don't let it limit your scope. By bringing value to the organization, you are the one to benefit most. Learning is the most critical aspect of any job; if you're not growing, it's time to uproot. She also points out that bad managers are great teachers, as they are...more
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Donna Novitsky talks about developing a marketing strategy for a start-up. She addresses key issues about segmenting customer priorities and their pain-points; and building a competitive strategy. Novitsky notes that customers are the biggest marketers for an organization. She also illustrates from her personal experience about partnering with other players to generate mutual benefits.
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When starting a business one tends not to focus on employee issues. Hawkins stesses the importance of laying a strong foundation of human resources from the very beginning. He shares ideas that he feels make sound human resource policies. When you are thinking of compensation between people, he says, you should always imagine that everyone knows everything.
