Aide who made iOS game poking fun at School District may be fired [LINKS]
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Aide who made iOS game poking fun at School District may be fired [LINKS]

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  • City should be more open about property-tax values data [It’s Our Money: Daily News] — More on developer Tim Wisniewski’s PhillyAddress.com, which was built at April’s Philly Tech Week hackathon.
  • School aide who helped Ackerman’s secret projects now expects to be fired [Inquirer] — The same school aide who built this critical ‘Teachers of Philly’ iOS game.
  • Cheaper way to deal with the waste heat at data centers? [Inquirer] — A Villanova research team is looking into more efficient ways of cooling computer processing
  • Three Pennsylvania Universities Receive Awards to Bridge the Funding Gap  [Business Wire press release] — “Lehigh University, Philadelphia University and Thomas Jefferson University were each awarded $200,000 in the fourth round of the University City Science Center’s QED Proof of Concept Program”
  • New Co-Working Space Opens at Science Center Port Business Incubator [Business Wire press release]
  • geekadelphia.com/2011/12/13/science-cheerleaders/ Science Cheerleaders: NFL & NBA Cheerleaders Turned Scientists  [Geekadelphia] — on the Science Cheerleaders group we’ve told you about
  • Roving thermographer records evidence of heat loss from Philly homes [NewsWorks] — On the Mark Group, as we’ve covered in the past
  • Philadelphia Technology Park Partners with Sunesys to Expand Connectivity Network in Southeastern Pennsylvania Region [Business Wire press release]

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