Media Services - San Jose State University

02/16/2013

Documentary on Arizon'Mexican-American Studies ban

This week Need to Know travels to Tucson, Arizona, to report on a long-running dispute over a Mexican-American studies program. Supporters say the program

02/12/2013

When you post information you believe will be viewed only by your friends on Facebook and other sites, it can still be viewed by government officials or pulled in by data collection services like RIOT (Rapid Information Overlay Technology).

The demo video shows Raytheon's Riot using social media to "gain an entire snapshot of a person's life...in little more than a few clicks of a button."

02/10/2013

The Grammy Awards broadcast (Sunday night at 8 p.m. ET on CBS) is arguably the largest musical event of the year, featuring live performances from some of the biggest names in music.

What you may not realize while you’re watching the event at home Sunday evening is that each one of the 21 live performances during this year’s show were only rehearsed with the live crew just a few times.

The Grammys broadcast features live performances from some of the biggest names in music. Let's go behind the scenes and see how the audio is produced.

02/06/2013

It's fair to say that without Intel founders Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore today's Silicon Valley startups wouldn't exist, and that's not just because the two churned out the first microprocessors.

02/05/2013

Interview with Lena Dunham. She wrote and directed the independent film Tiny Furniture (2010), and is the creator and star of the HBO series Girls. In 2012, she was nominated for four Emmy Awards and won two Golden Globe Awardsfor Girls.

Lena Dunham, filmmaker, writer and producer. Visit http://www.presspauseplay.com to download the free interactive version of PressPausePlay.

02/05/2013

Hundreds of mourners gathered on Capitol Hill Monday to celebrate the life of Internet activist Aaron Swartz and to advocate changes to federal anti-hacking law.

Swartz took his own life last month after fighting federal hacking charges for two years. In the fall of 2010, he downloaded millions of academic journal articles from the online database JSTOR from a library at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Swartz had legal access to the articles, but his mass download violated the database terms of service agreement. Prosecutors refused to accept any plea deal that did not include jail time and a felony conviction, even though JSTOR had opposed criminal prosecution.

See with subtitles here: http://www.amara.org/en/videos/KXM6I5CKWtRW/info/aaron-swartz-the-network-transformation/ http://q.gs/3GggL San Francisco, April 200...

01/31/2013

What's your opinion?

When a cubicle is the classroom, who is grading the companies? Studies show that many colleges are ignoring their oversight responsibilities.

01/30/2013

The Washington Square gets noted:

Redesigns have become so common, I was convinced that I was exhausted of anything new to say about them. Then came an envelope from Jody Ulate, editor of Washington Square, the magazine at San Jose State University, with two issues of her magazine and word that its redesign had been done by students...

01/24/2013

How Free Online Courses Are Changing the Traditional Liberal Arts Education

01/22/2013

01/16/2013

A plan to offer an array of online college classes at a California state university could, if the students are successful, open the door to teaching hundreds of thousands of California students at a lower cost via the Internet. New York Times has the story:

Udacity, a start-up that offers online college courses, will offer low-cost remedial and introductory classes to students at San Jose State University and local community colleges and high schools.

01/15/2013

Nothing proves this like the research of Dan Simons, one of the authors of The Invisible Gorilla: How Our Intuitions Deceive Us.