talk given to Louisville High School, 8/28/2012

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2. What is Software?
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3. Software Products
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16. My Career Path
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17. 4decisions
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18. 4life lessons
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20. 1Learn from
Great teachers
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23. 2Work with
Great People
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30. 3Follow Your Heart
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36. 4Take Risks
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42. 19 museums
9 research centers
23 libraries
15 archives
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43. 137 Millionspecimens, art works and other treasures...
totaling over...
136,000 cubic feet
of archival material
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44. and members
of the public to
learn about.
researchers to
study and
discover,
curators to
organize and
document,
The Smithsonian has tons of
treasure for...
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45. accelerated digitization efforts
enhance our collections
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46. Which creates a new opportunity:
What if we could unlock the
text and metadata behind
those collection objects?
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48. Participate in transcribing the document text
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50. Collaborative
Interdisciplinary
Open Source
Distributed
Small
Vast
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51. “Through our scientific genius we have
made of the world a neighborhood; now
through our moral and spiritual genius
we must make of it a brotherhood...
“We must all learn
to live together as brothers
or we will all perish together as fools.”
MARTIN LUTHER KING
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52. The Future
is What We Make it
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