Today was the Brown Bag Speaker Series topic The Future of the Internet: Concepts.
Multimedia slides only: http://www.otoole.info/AIP/seminars/Future-Web-Concept/slides.html
Recorded Presentation: http://www.otoole.info/AIP/seminars/Future-Web-Concept/
Let me know if you have questions.
Eddie Webster, sociologist and emeritus professor at the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, died on March 5, 2024, at age 82.
Three awards are available through Sage’s Concept Grant program, which is designed to support innovative products and tools aimed at enhancing social science education and research.
Political scientist Charles V. Hamilton, the tokenizer of the term ‘institutional racism,’ an apostle of the Black Power movement, and at times deemed both too radical and too deferential in how to fight for racial equity, died on November 18, 2023. He was 94.
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