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David Blake writing in TechCrunch discusses higher education and the failure to meet commoditized demands by breaking the degree structure into modules. Similar to many writers before his concern is about the trivial courses that mean nothing to the outlet the student desires. His concern is alliterated as jailbreaking (similar to how you open a [...]

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I’ve been a federal government employe for almost exactly 11 months. In that period of time I have been through shutdown scares, notified about the possible cessation of my program three times by senior leaders, and all of this while being a title 10 employee (at will not civil service). Just to be sure the [...]

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Higher education exists to terrorize and bankrupt students with tuition costs (double, triple, insert value here) the rate of inflation. It is a current meme in public policy and though higher education has its issues this is a crock and there are a couple of reasons why.

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I have successfully defended my dissertation for a PhD from Purdue University. The title of the dissertation is “Cyber warfare as a form of conflict: Evaluation of models of cyber conflict as a prototype to conceptual analysis”, and my advisor was Dr. Marcus Rogers. Lots of significant people helped me get this far, and lots [...]

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This is a little bit of a rant. I have been noticing an increase in over the top marketing language. We have revolutionary new products. We have wars on everything from drugs to Christmas. We see it and hear it so often that it doesn’t even phase us. Here is my problem with this. Language [...]

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Something I’m working on.

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I’ve been working a project identifying a comprehensive cyber curriculum. The various standard infosec curriculums are primarily for non-conflict oriented entities, and NIST/NICE is really a human resources hiring tool. One aspect of this tasking is looking at the idea of leadership “levels” and the second aspect is looking at the disconnect between info sec [...]

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The Internet has done strange things to us. We think we are more important than we are and we have ways to measure that. We think we have relationships with people we have never met and are not likely to meet. I am not now, nor have I ever been a popular person. I am [...]

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Abstract This paper explores two areas of the gender and technology in education issues. The first issue explored is the cultural and environmental issue that has a significant amount of scholarship associated with the specific elements. The second issue is an evaluation of the scholarship available that women learn differently than men. Specifically the conceptual [...]

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I see a problem with the continuing move toward corporate science. As corporations upgrade their research arms (good) there is not an associated upgrade to public research (bad). I trace a lot of the current scientific redundancy back to the Bayh-Dole Act. The government was not seeing the number of patents licensed from public funded [...]

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Another graphic from Sam’s little black book of ideas. This graphic is based on a lot of work I did while at Purdue. There isn’t anybody looking at the cyber schism currently, but what it shows is the difference in attitudes and educational necessity for cyber education. There is a certain amount of base knowledge [...]

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Abstract This paper discusses the issues of technology, music, and the intersection with social movements such as protest. Relying heavily on discussion of the guitar and music hall as examples where technology has created radical change the discussion centers on the elements that allow for the musician to interact with larger and larger audiences. With [...]

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Abstract The objective of this paper is to provide information on how to create a course that informs students how to secure a wireless local area network (WLAN) through the execution of laboratory exercises. The expectation is that students will work in teams and learn how to design, implement, and secure a wireless network. Students [...]

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Abstract The requisite behavior of paranoia in dealing with information assurance and security topics building towards a professional or subject matter expert is highly valued. Specifically the behaviors of inquiry and awareness leading to informed suspicion and paranoia in evaluating security incidents is valued. Evaluating the social impact of paranoia within the primarily pedagological construct [...]

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One of the things I hear politicians say, especially near elections, is that the solution to the jobs crisis is for those who are unemployed or under employed to get retraining. This is a myth. It doesn’t help. Here is my story. I have a liberal arts education – a BA in Anthropology and an [...]

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