Health IT Fair

March 16
1-3

Meet and greet with industry Health IT professionals in your area. Learn about research and development projects, as well as practicum opportunities. 
Manning Lobby 3-4:30

Industry professional presentations.
Manning room 208

Companies include Quintiles, SAS, EPIC, and Allscripts.

Heather Lewis
Health Informatics Coordinator
School of Information and Library Science
101 Manning Hall; CB #3360
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3360
(ph)919-962-0182
(fx)919-962-8071
(em) hlewis22@unc.edu

Cool Website! Kuler.Adobe

http://kuler.adobe.com

Hey guys! I showed this website as a starter on Wednesday. This is really useful if you are looking for a color scheme for your website or for graphic design or anything like that.

Enjoy!

The Future of the Smart Grid

There will be a talk tonight at the Business School about “The Future of the Smart Grid” that many on this list may be interested in. It should be informative and possibly a good chance to network if you have any interest in working in this area. Details below.

 To sign up, go to: http://smartgrid2012kfbs.eventbrite.com/

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The Energy Club at Kenan-Flagler Business School is hosting a speaker panel on the future of electric power. The panelists have a broad background in the energy field, including power generation, distribution, communications, data management, and public utilities.

This event is open to the public. We only ask that you please register in advance. Parking is available in the parking deck at the business school when the gates open at 4pm. The panel will begin at 4:15.

Speakers on the panel include:

• Craig M. Cavanaugh - Director, Metering and Communications Solutions at Siemens Energy, Inc. Craig is responsible for the smart metering and smart grid communications solutions business in North America, which today is primarily focused on the sales, delivery and support of meter data management software for utilities. 
• Luke Fishback - Founder of PlotWatt. PlotWatt shows people how to reduce their electricity bills by analyzing smart meter data to identify sources of energy waste. Proprietary algorithms compute appliance-level energy cost without monitoring the individual appliances. The PlotWatt recommendation engine then generates customized, quantified recommendations tailored to each user’s home. 
• Lee T. Mazzocchi - currently Vice President and Chief Procurement Officer for Progress Energy. Upon close of the merger between Duke Energy and Progress Energy, Lee will be Vice President – Grid Modernization, responsible for Duke Energy’s investments in smart grid infrastructure and applications. 
• Sharon Allan - Partner, Accenture Smart Grid Services. Sharon has global responsibility for grid modernization and helping utilities around the globe modernize their infrastructure. 
• Gary Rackliffe - Vice President of Smart Grids North America at ABB, Inc. Gary leads ABB's Smart Grid initiative in North America, including business development, strategic partnerships, and ABB’s marketing and product strategies.

Prezi and another really awesome link

Hi all,

I talked about Prezi a few classes back. You can find it at www.prezi.com. However, it doesn't work on all computers - I can't use it at my work because we don't have the newest version of Adobe software.

I also wanted to share this because it is amazing:

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/page/scale-universe-cary-michael-huang-california-high-school-15573968

It was created by two 14 year old twin brothers. It's similar to Prezi because of the zooming capabilities, so I thought it would be relevant to this post.

Wa Po Labs visit

WaPoLabs is the Washington Post unit that experiments with interactive and new media, user experience, and such.

A small group from the labs, including user experience and editor staff, are visiting UNC on Monday, February 27.

 They want to " chat with students about the changing media landscape and the work we do."

 They will be holding an open discussion session 3:15 - 4:30 in the Freedom Forum Room, 305 Carroll Hall. All interested are welcome to attend.

Kristen Bowen Things of Interest

Here are the pages that I shows in class today: http://www.whichbook.net/ and http://www.whatmovieshouldiwatchtonight.com/

The first is interesting to me because my favorite thing to do is read. However one of my majors is English and I don't have a lot of time to read texts that are of interest to me outside of class. Therefore, when I do get time to do so I like to have a ready made list of books that have caught my interest and this site helps me to develop this list.

The second is interesting to me because sometimes I just can't take reading anymore because my mind is tired from all of the texts I have to read for my classes and just needs to relax. I used to waste time having to look for what other people think are good movies to watch and then going to watch trailers. But, this site allows me to mindlessly find movies to watch by pulling up the trailers itself. I think both of these sites are ones that will be useful to the class.