The obvious grammatical effluvia of academic discourse wrapped in the absent specter of Pericles pen shows the dishonesty of the academician. There is only shame for the academic hiding behind bellicose diatribes in obfuscation of honest discourse. An attack on…
Samuel Liles appointed to U.S. TAG ISO/TC223 “Societal Security”
Sam was invited and appointed to the U.S. effort technical advisory group working on the “Societal Security” standard. As a subject matter expert he will be providing any help that he can and learning a fair bit along the way.…
How do we get there from here?
I have been watching Star Trek since 3rd grade. I have always loved Gene Roddenberry’s view of the future as positive and hopeful. A few years ago, during an episode of Next Generation, it struck me how much knowledge all…
Higher Education: Recession proof, perhaps, fuel cost sensitive, definitely
There is an old saying, and to be honest I do not know the veracity of it, “Booze, gambling and cigarettes are recession proof. The businesses of sin always make a profit.” I do not have any idea where it…
A study of hydrogen fueled vehicles and Spain
Abstract This paper will discuss the cultural factors of hydrogen fueled vehicles in the Kingdom of Spain. A variety of cultural inventories are used to score and evaluate the ability of Spain to adopt new technologies alongside ethnographic studies of…
Education paradigm: How you get there may not be where you are going
Introduction Higher education is often challenged by the competing interests of society and the individual student who wishes to attend. The reasons for attending a University are as varied as the student population. Of interest to students, parents, faculty, and…
Data Center Fire: We have returned
We are back after two days off line. The Houston data center where our server is located had a transformer fire and Saturday morning went dark. Early this morning we got network functionality back.
More (new) pictures of the 1986 Jeep CJ 7
The dark ages: Modern anti-intellectualism and failure of the thinking man
In the happenstance world of the modern University system and the massive shift to large scale educational institutions are we truly getting smarter? In the megalithic creations of superior seats of education where is the radical advancements promised by a…
Memorial Day 2008
All nations call upon their citizens in time of need. When the diplomacy of words ends, and the diplomacy of the sword begins that is where service becomes exemplary. In the on-going conflicts of the nation state. In the festering…
The warrior scholar
I have this fantasy that the warrior scholar elite can happen in my life time. Yes I believe in the elite who are the best because in the realm of conflict failure to be elite carries the badge of vanquished.…
Fall 2008 Book Adoptions
This semesters text book adoptions.
ITS 472 Final Project Paper (NMCI)
Students in my ITS 472 Networking Architecture course have completed a network design replicating the Navy Marine Corps Intranet project. The overall goal of this excercise was for the students in about 10 weeks to design an enterprise network solution…
Are students customers or scholars in training?
Part of the problem with considering students as customers rather than students is a difference in perspective between administrative needs and needs of faculty and the discipline. Personally I consider those people in their seats to be students or scholars…
K-12 Education: A university professor takes the future personally
Though as a faculty we represent a diverse and expansive educational background sometimes we miss the point. Whether your educational philosophy is behaviorist or constructivist our mission is to educate the next generation. There is some value in the criticism…