Archive for the ‘Education’ Category

Sustainability and IT – My magnum opus at RIT

Monday, February 15th, 2010

Scott Hawker, former adviser and head of my capstone project's committee at RIT, emailed my publication-ready monograph not long ago: Here's the abstract: Information technology holds tremendous potential to help consumers and firms make more sustainable choices by providing information at key decision points. As one example, there are a number of ...

2 years + 56,000 dollars = ?

Saturday, January 30th, 2010

After two years of blood, sweat, tears, and a scholarship worth US$56,000, here's the end result: (click for a larger view) Sans the blood and the tears, it was quite an amazing ride. Traveling to Rochester, NY, spending 2 years at RIT and meeting all the awesome people I met along the ...

Randy Pausch on time management

Saturday, December 13th, 2008

Do you guys remember Randy Pausch? No? What about his remarkable last lecture? Today, for the first time, I came across Randy's fantastic take on a very pressing matter for most of us: time management. Here's the entire YouTube video: If you don't have enough time to watch the whole thing ...

Mind map: Objet d’art

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

I love mind maps! Ok, maybe that was an overstatement (I usually get carried away when I'm excited). I do think mind maps are an elegant, straightforward manner to easily convey seemingly-complicated ideas and concepts. I was totally elated when I ran into Mindmeister.com, a site that allows you to ...

TQM in Software Development

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

The following is an English translation of a brief paper I wrote about TQM and software development for an undergrad class in Dominican Republic. I felt like sharing this with the many IT peers that read my blog. I hope you guys enjoy it. NOTE: The paper's tone was rather informal ...