Despite the need to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, the burning of coal has only been accelerating.

Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can be of interest to web designers.

The best way to keep track of our tweets is simply to follow us on Twitter, however, in case you missed some here’s a quick and useful compilation of the best tweets that we sent out this past week.

Note that this is only a very small selection of the links that we tweeted about, so don’t miss out.

To keep up to date with all the cool links, simply follow us @DesignerDepot

Take a look at the beautiful paintings of Shirin Sahba and be amazed: http://depot.ly/ke0ed

Twitter Expands Keyword Ad Targeting To User Timelines http://depot.ly/kdXJN  via @marketingland

Yahoo’s weather app looks awesome http://depot.ly/kdXnc

How To Manage Client Feedback http://depot.ly/kbANg  *Good article via @FastCoDesign

Who are your favorite design writers? Another great discussion on Branch http://depot.ly/kbB2v

Cool read! RT @smashingmag: Weak, Strong, Static And Dynamic: An Introduction To Programming Type Systems – http://depot.ly/kbBe2

Strikingly: Create Beautiful Mobile-Optimized Websites Without Coding http://depot.ly/kbwE1  Do you like it?

Frank Chimero (@fchimero) talks about timeless design http://depot.ly/kbwrG

Traditional Native American-Inspired Superhero Artworks http://depot.ly/k7231

Digg Does The Google Reader Survey That Google Should’ve Done http://depot.ly/k6Yce

How to organize a design event: 5 expert tips http://depot.ly/k71Ca  /@CreativeBloQ

New touchscreen technology by Fujitsu allows seamless data transfer between the real & virtual worlds http://depot.ly/k6P0x

The Elements of the Periodic Table, Personified as Illustrated Heroes http://depot.ly/k71d2  via @brainpicker

The folks at @iacquire put together a handy article http://depot.ly/k6MLt  How to Contact Google

Google wants to go where no search engine has gone before http://depot.ly/k6Mpw  It wants to build the Star Trek computer

Rethinking Netflix for iPad: http://depot.ly/k7Q9p

Twitter acquires We Are Hunted, should open new marketing doors for artists http://depot.ly/k6XYL  via @marketingland

Here Are Google Glass’ Tech Specs http://depot.ly/k6N4C  via @Gizmodo

Awesome concept http://depot.ly/k4oWS  Self-assembling furniture ‘grows like popcorn’

Improve Your Layouts by Working With Columns in Adobe InDesign http://depot.ly/k4pmw  *Nice tutorial via @vectortuts

The World of Mad Men Through a 21st-Century Lens http://depot.ly/k4h7Z

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CSEE Colloquium

Queuing and Long Lines: How to run efficient elections

Dr. William A. Edelstein
Visiting Distinguished Professor of Radiology
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

1:00pm Friday, 3 May 2013, ITE227, UMBC

Computerized touchscreen "Direct Recording Electronic" (DRE) voting systems have been used by over 1/3 of American voters in recent elections, including in Maryland. In many places, insufficient DRE numbers, in combination with lengthy ballots and high voter traffic, have caused long lines and disenfranchised voters who left without voting. We have applied computer queuing simulation to the voting process and conclude that far more DREs, at great expense, would be needed to keep waiting times low. Alternatively, paper ballot-optical scan systems can be easily and economically scaled to prevent long lines and meet unexpected contingencies. We have developed a heuristic "Queue Stop Rule" that can be applied to prevent long lines at voting stations. We have also carried out queuing simulations of other parts of the voting process, for example, voter check-in and ballot scanning. Our results can be used to help plan cost-effective election systems that will produce expeditious elections.

William Edelstein, physicist, received BS and PhD degrees in that subject from University of Illinois and Harvard, respectively. His career has principally focused on the development of MRI, starting in Scotland in 1977 and continuing from 1980 at the GE research lab in Schenectady, NY. He has been Visiting Distinguished Professor of Radiology at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine since 2007. His MRI work has been recognized with many honors, including the 2005 Industrial Applications of Physics Prize from the American Institute of Physics. His interest in election systems began several years ago in NY State during the debate to replace lever voting machines.

Our PROMISE AGEP is in the “PROMISE Pathways” phase where we have been looking at ways to expand our program and partner with more campuses within the University System of Maryland (USM). On Tuesday, April 16, 2013, a group of PROMISE students left UMBC at 5AM to travel to the University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES) to serve as moderators for the 2013 Regional Research Symposium which was part of the celebration activities for the new president, Dr. Juliette Bell. Dr. Bell, a biochemist, spent time meeting and greeting the group from UMBC. Dr. Bell’s own mentor from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences/National Institutes of Health (NIEHS/NIH), Dr. Thomas Kunkel, gave a keynote address that discussed innovations in DNA repair.

At the door of opportunity. PROMISE Students from UMBC at the Student Services Center at UMES.

Students also had a chance to talk with Dr. T. Sean Vasaitis, an assistant professor at UMES, and former PROMISE Peer Mentor from UMB. We extend thanks to Dr. Jennifer Keane-Dawes, Dean of the Graduate School at UMES for her invitation and hospitality, and we thank Dr. Lakeisha L. Harris, for her logistics leadership. Congratulations to all of the poster and oral presentation winners, and to the faculty who won special awards.

Luncheon Photo with President Bell. Pictured, L-R (graduate students from UMBC unless otherwise noted): Eric Corbett (Human-Centered Computing), Miguel Nino (Instructional Systems Design), DeLauren McCauley (Chemistry), Nanda Cortes (Biology), Dr. Jennifer Keane-Dawes (Dean of the Graduate School, UMES), DR. JULIETTE BELL (PRESIDENT, UMES), Dr. Renetta Tull (Assoc. Vice Provost/PROMISE Dir.), Lois Oviawe (Economic Policy Analysis), Nebechi Osia (Environmental Engineering), and Kyle Edwards (Applied Sociology). 

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