dwaldron April 24th, 2009
On Friday, April 3, A trio of nationally renowned figures gathered at The College of Wooster on Friday, April 3, for a half-day forum, entitled “Great Decisions in Times of Economic Crisis.” This group included Donald Kohn, vice chair of the Federal Reserve System, William Longbrake, retired vice chairman and CFO of Washington Mutual and former CFO of the FDIC, and James Stewart, Pulitzer Prize winning columnist for the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg Professor of Business Journalism at the Columbia School of Journalism. The forum was moderated by Richard Seaman, President and CEO of Seaman Corporation and a member of Wooster’s Board of Trustees.
This extraordinary event can now be viewed online:
Introductions by John Rudisil and Richard Seaman
The Remarks of James Stewart
The Remarks of Donald Kohn
The Remarks of William Longbrake
Questions and Discussion
OIT extends a special thanks to Michael Naylor, Assistant Director of Digital Infrastructure for Media Services and Systems, and the Media Services group for making it possible to share this content online.
dwaldron April 22nd, 2009
Happy Earth Day, Wooster!
It seems appropriate to mark the occasion by posting about a technological development of a kind not usually covered by the OIT blog. Jon Bohmer, a Norwegian-born entrepreneur based in Kenya has developed a solar oven. Dubbed the Kyoto Box, the oven consists of two cardboard boxes and an acrylic cover that admits and then traps the sun’s rays. A bit of black paint and silver foil help to concentrate the heat. Without electricity or any power source other than the sun’s rays, Kyoto Box users can boil water and cook many foods. The ability to boil water is critical to fighting waterborne illnesses. In addition, the Kyoto Box could reduce the use for wood and other fossil fuels for cooking in the developing world. The oven is expected to cost approximately $5. More information is available from CNN.
dwaldron April 13th, 2009
PRI’s World Technology Podcast #239 was posted on Friday and features an interview with Evgeny Morozov. Originally from Belarus, Morozov is currently a fellow at the Open Society Institute in New York. In the past, he has written for The Economist and, according to his blog, net.effect is currently writing a book on the impact of the internet on global politics, with particular emphasis on authoritarian states. A recent post to net.effect is entitled “Moldova’s Twitter Revolution.” That post, and the Technology Podcast interview, explore the role played by Twitter and other social networking sites in the recent unrest in Moldova.
The World Technology Podcast is hosted by Clark Boyd and is available at http://www.theworld.org/technology or via iTunes.