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Hack Your Program: Indiana University-Indianapolis SLIS
25/05/2011 § 15 Comments
*Disclaimer: These are my personal opinions and are not representative of the student body. I started in Fall 2010 as a full-time, out-of-state student. All criticism is meant to be constructive.
I go to the School of Library and Information Science at Indiana University-Indianapolis (a.k.a. IUPUI). It's a nice campus that located just west of the downtown area. Overall, I would say that my program has a very traditional approach to the LIS education. For example, we graduate with an MLS, not an MLIS. Students can either take classes online, on-campus, or long-distance, via satellite classes, although long distance learners are required to take at least one class in person. I moved here from CA because I wanted to attend a school in person, so I mostly am taking on-campus courses, which works best for me personally. I really have connected with the student body and the professors here, which has made my experience really awesome.
Concentrations and/or specializations:
There are three main tracks that people take, academic, public, and school media specialists. Additionally, there are some dual degrees and specialization certificates offered on this campus. Some that stand out in my opinion are the MLS/ Master of Science in Health Informatics and the MLS/ Master of Arts in Philanthropic Studies. These are specializations that I haven't seen offered at many other schools.
Financial aid:
SLIS Indy has several graduate assistantship positions, either in the SLIS office or at the university library. Getting a GA position means you get 6 credit hours a semester reimbursed, you work 20 hours a week, and get a bi-weekly stipend. However, you must apply by May 1 for the following fall semester to be eligible for consideration. Otherwise, financial aid can be found through FAFSA and work-study positions. I also suggest looking at professional associations to look for scholarships. The down-side to this is that the university library here cut the GA program for the next year so now students primarily work in the SLIS office.
Here at SLIS, we have 15 credit hour foundational courses that we must take. The degree is a 36 credit-hour program, which takes about 2 years to complete if you go to school full-time.
Core Classes:
- Collection development
- Library management
- Introduction to research
- Reference
- Cataloging or representation and organization of information.
After we take these core classes, the rest of the coursework are electives which we can tailor to our own interests. We are also allowed 6 units outside of SLIS, if we want, as long as it is approved by an advisor. This means 6 units at the Bloomington campus or in another department. Personally, I wish that I didn't have to take all of the foundational courses but in the end, I suppose I will graduate with a well rounded education. Our degree does not require a final project or a thesis, so students feel either relieved or directionless. We have the option to do directed research or reading for credit, so if students feel compelled to take on a personal research project, they can do so for credit. I think it would be nice to feel like I was working towards a capstone project or some sort of culminating final project, as opposed to taking a bunch of classes, then just being done. There's not any room in our program for that level of self-reflection, which might be very helpful in a graduate degree.
Internship availability:
IUPUI has several libraries on it's campus, including law, art, medical, and dentistry libraries. In addition, Indianapolis is home to several museums, special libraries (like the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library) and private companies which offer volunteer and internship opportunities for SLIS students. As a result, this is a great campus to get practical experience. Internships are not required, but students can earn up to 6 credit hours for internships that they do.
We also have this great program, The 21st Century Leadership Program, funded through an IMLS grant that provides students with the opportunity to do an internship for credit and take a leadership forum class. These credit hours are paid for, in addition to a stipend and travel grant money. You can do your internship anywhere as long as it's approved by your advisor. This allows students to get practical experience and be paid for their time. However, funding for this program might only be for 2011.
Student Involvement:
IU Bloomington has the ALA Student Chapter, plus many other great student groups geared towards all the specialty degrees. We have ALISS, our own student group which I was recently elected as the Chief Information Officer. Unfortunately, getting people to participate is hard because our school has many commuters and long-distance students. Every semester there are brown-bag lunches with professors, guest speakers and special events, connecting students to alumni and faculty.
- Nice campus and main library. The classrooms are all up-to-date and have a.c. in the hot summer. I say this because I'm taking a class in Bloomington and the classroom is really stuffy (I know, this is a personal thing).
- Many opportunities for students to get practical experience since this campus is located in an urban setting. The Indiana State Library is two blocks away from campus and welcomes SLIS students to come volunteer on projects that align with students interests.
- Great student body and faculty. Everyone here is really friendly, which has helped me feel more welcome in a new place. The faculty are pretty approachable and are willing to talk to students, even if they're not their advisor.
- SLIS Indy/ IUPUI UL Joint Research Conference is held here in our library. It's a great way for students and the librarians to interact and hear about what research projects. It's also an opportunity for students to present their research in a low-pressure setting, since they have the home team advantage. I wrote more about it on my blog and I volunteered to be on the planning committee for next year. It's a good way to get experience with conference planning!
Areas for Improvement:
- No option for MLIS. Yes I know, it's a single letter difference, but it matters to some. I recently found out that IU-Bloomington is part of the iSchool caucus, and I think their course offerings reflect that. Even though we are supposed to be the same school, our courses differ. More information science classes would be awesome.
- More technology classes would be nice. IUPUI has an informatics program, including a master's program in human computer interaction. If only we had some of those classes, but geared towards library students. Think of the possibilities!
- Limited opportunities to get instruction experience. This is a requirement for many academic library jobs, but at our school, it's hard to get that experience unless you find an internship that allows you to do information literacy instruction. The professor who normally teaches the education of information users course didn't teach it this past year; so many students never had the chance to at least take the class dedicated to this area of librarianship.
Looking forward:
Next year, IU is going up for ALA re-accreditation. This means that all the faculty members, from both campuses, are looking critically at the program and potentially making some changes. For IU-Indy, an academic librarian track is most likely going to be added. We also got a new Executive Associate Dean, Dr. Lipinski this past January, so I do expect more changes in the coming years.
Overall, I would say that this program is very heavy on practical experience and lighter on theory. Many of our class projects have us go out into the community and talk to real librarians. I really appreciate that aspect of my education because I think it enhances my understanding of librarianship.
If anyone has any questions about IU please ask away. I am not the lone spokesperson for this program so IU Bloomington students, IUPUI students, if you guys have any experiences or thoughts you want to add, please go ahead and add any additional comments or experiences to address anything I missed.
§ 15 Responses to Hack Your Program: Indiana University-Indianapolis SLIS
Annie, you did a fantastic job summarizing the program. I agree with your description, strengths and areas for improvement. In the last category, I would add the following:
The classes I've taken so far (halfway through the 36 credits) generally seem more relevant to academic librarianship. I would like to see more class content for public librarianship and perhaps school librarianship. Considering the urban setting of the Indianapolis program and the small-town setting of the Bloomington campus, it would make sense to skew the Indianapolis program toward public and school librarianship and the Bloomington program toward academic librarianship. Another division of emphasis could be large public libraries (Indianapolis) and smaller rural and suburban public libraries (Bloomington).
Both programs would benefit from more coursework in technology (particularly management of e-content); advocacy (community relations, communications, social networking and marketing) and, as you mentioned, instruction.
In general, the IU program seems a bit dated, as though it were preparing students more for what librarianship has been than for what it is becoming.
"…students feel either relieved or directionless." This is a great point that I think might be endemic of LIS educational generally – what happens in the end? You finish 2 years of courses, maybe an internship to show for it, but what of scholarship, engaging difficult ideas, challenging the educational/theoretical paradigms through research and writing? FSU has a thesis option, and I am still kicking myself for not doing it. I'd love to have some piece of writing that I really put a lot of effort and thought into that would contribute to the field and summarize my education. This kind of ties back to my Publish or Perish post.
Anyways – great review Annie.
I concur! Annie has amazing posts.
I agree that some sort of thesis program would give my fellow students a sense of direction and accomplishment, but there is one option that is Annie mentioned that no one really talks about. Producing scholarship in the research field. Annie mentioned the joint research conference that was held on our campus, in our library this past semester, and it was brought together by one of the most well known (and loved) professors we have. Andrea Copeland, formerly Japzon.
Andrea also teaches the Intro to Research class that some students are either required to encouraged to take. She also is very vocal in asking, cajoling, brow-beating, and encouraging students to continue on and finish their research, and have it published. While proposing, conducting, collecting, and analyzing research is no breeze, neither is writing a thesis. I believe that having the chance to conduct and write up research that you the student did and felt connection with can be just as rewarding as a thesis.
Annie Rocks.
I agree that an MLIS option would be nice. I know that I could probably qualify for information/knowledge/buzzword management jobs, but I'd feel more prepared if I had more course work in that area.
And it's really too bad that University Library is cutting back on the GA program – I was able to get a year's experience on the reference desk and in ILL, AND didn't go deep into debt this past year.
Speaking of which, the price tag for the program is a good selling point. Annie, I don't know what the out-of-state cost is, but the rates for in-state students were what convinced me to move back from beautiful Washington state while I could still qualify for them.
I have tried to heed the call to contribute to this blog but I have never received a reply back so I will try to "hack this site" in order to "hack my program" and hope this comment gets approved. I'll keep this short though just in case and write more if the web is truly "our campus' meaning all of us and not "our campus" meaning the first few people who signed up to be "hackers" on this blog.
So, I went to the University of Sheffield where the Information School has been ranked number one in the UK in terms of quality of research for the last 24 years in a row. It is often seen as the most balanced school of the three major programs with University College London being very traditional and Loughborough being very tech-driven.
The degree is not an MLS but rather an MA in Librarianship which I found refreshingly direct and explicit. Other options include: Info Systems, Info Management, Info Literacy, Digital Library Management, Health Informatics, and Multilingual Info Management. Within the Librarianship program, emphasis could be placed on studying academic libraries, public libraries, or children's services.
Financial Aid
At the University of Sheffield, most nationalities can get an automatic 2,000 pounds off tuition just for studying abroad. In addition, funding is available through FAFSA just as if you were going to school in America.
There were standard courses on the three areas of emphasis listed above, of which it was required that at least one were taken. In addition, there was a compulsory management class which spanned both semesters. Aside from that, there was ample room for customization to fit individual needs. I took a course on building a CMS from scratch using PHP, HTML, CSS and SQL as well as building e-learning objects with WIMBA, Blackboard, and Second Life. What is interesting about the coursework is that it is taught by committee so that the lecturer with the most knowledge on a subject is always the one teaching that material. In addition, there were a number of notable guest speakers including Camila Alire and Jo Bryson.
Most students came into the program already having worked in libraries still a select number of internships were available as well as positions at the university library. I think about 5 of my classmates worked at the library and I had an internship at a small corporate library.
Student Involvement
Ned Potter's LIS-NPN is active at the university as is a social society for iSchool students.
The campus is beautiful and everything related to the information school is mostly all housed in one building which is convenient.
Also, the library (information commons) is open 24 hours and includes silent study spaces and silent computer labs which are great for when deadlines are looming.
Lastly, the faculty are all well-published, internationally-recognized experts in their fields.
Areas for Improvement
This is speaking specifically as an American studying in the UK.
On the Internet, there is plenty of information on the UK Post-Study Work Visa which, as the name implies, allows you to work after studying and begin the process towards gaining citizenship. However, there is a separate law that you won't hear much about which basically states that if anyone in the EU applies for a job that you apply for they will be given the job first. In other words, it will be very hard to stay in the UK and work. Also, while in the UK, it will be very difficult to even find part-time work.
Also, if you just plan to come back to the States you may find that although CILIP and ALA have a reciprocity agreement and recognize each others credentials, employers may not accept the CILIP-accredited degree as an equivalent to an ALA-accredited degree.
In short, even though the education is excellent you will be hindered when looking for a job in the UK or in the US. In the end, I ended up going back to Korea to regroup and I will be beginning my job search again in the near future. If I have better luck, I will post an update but for now, despite the quality of the program, it is difficult to recommend studying outside the US.
Thank you for being forward about getting your content up here. Please forgive us for falling behind on contacting people about guest posts – for a few of us graduation and job hunts have been a priority these past weeks, to the detriment of the blog. If it's alright with you, I'd love to publish this as a full post. email me at micahvandegrift at gmail and we'll work out the details.
You didn't mention the Technology Management Specialization. For better or worse, that's what I decided to do. I think on this track you are exposed to a lot more technology than in the traditional program. However, I came into this program with a Bachelor's in Computer Information Systems, so the technology classes I have taken so far have felt very basic. I'd forgotten a lot of stuff, and it's valuable to know how technology relates to libraries. So I wouldn't say any of the classes are a waste of time or anything (okay, maybe a couple of them are). I know most people going into a library program don't have technical backgrounds, so I don't hold that against the school. I'm not really interested in a being a computer programmer or IT person anyway (hence library school), so I think it's more important to sort of understand how technology is changing libraries and learn about how to apply it to the profession to hopefully make it better and keep it relevant. I do kind of wish there was an MLIS. The Tech Specialization is probably the closest we'll get.
Great review Annie! I just graduated from the Bloomington campus and I would say some comments hold true to both campuses. I think some of the IUB classes tend to be heavier on theory, in part because there is a slight i-school focus (but the ischool people would beg to differ) and because many of our faculty have never been practicing librarians.
-The Bloomington campus has slightly more opportunity for instruction experience on campus (but still lacking in my opinion).
-We also have more technology courses but the information science side doesn't merge well with the library side. So you make take a PHP course, but never even talk about the application in a library. Additionally in the library side courses much of the technology/material is outdated. We have our own computer lab, but much of the software is outdated, including some lovely Windows XP computers that for some reason can't even open Adobe PDFs…
-We follow basically the same curriculum
-There is more student involvement primarily because Bloomington is not as much of a commuter campus like IUPUI, and many SLIS students work on campus so it feels like you are always there. We did work with ALISS last year for one event, but it is hard to communicate across the campuses. I'm sure Bloomington would love more collaboration!
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One good looking sky
I was never a big fan of truth–it meant so many things that I'm supposed to do–more of a my truth, your truth, let's hug a tree kinda guy.
Just about the time you realize you are religiously committed to not doing you find yourself doing–not necessarily just about anything but definitely describing.
So, there you have your description–a description of whatever it is the description is a description of. Having not a whole lot happening in the neighborhood of your description, you look around at, say, the things that are described. You read something like cats have fur and you look at the scene outside your window and sure enough cats are having fun. What we got here is something more sinister than cats and their furs (neither of whom is funny according to Alice), which is the truth of your description. My guidebook says, 'when confronted with something incomprehensible, take a look'; it's one good looking sky.
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Wow! A lot has happened in the world of technology since my last post. I hope you are aware of it because if you aren't, you've really missed out.
iPhone 4S
The new iPhone has launched! It wasn't an iPhone 5 as previously expected, but an iPhone 4S. This is an incremental upgrade much like when Apple launched the iPhone 3GS. Everything about the phone is better, much better, but it still looks the same as the iPhone 4. Unless you use your phone constantly to take photos and videos, I wouldn't recommend upgrading to the 4S right now. I would personally wait until next year when hopefully the iPhone 5 comes out with true 4G (LTE) built in to take advantage of much higher speeds. If however you are on an Android phone and loathe it like I am, or on the previously mentioned iPhone 3GS, this phone will make a fantastic upgrade. You can read more about the new features of the iPhone at the Apple website.
Amazon Kindle Fire
It had been rumored that Amazon would launch an "iPad Killer" this Fall and it turns out the rumor was half true. They did launch a tablet, it is most definitely not a killer. The tablet is nice enough I guess, but it would be like comparing an iMac to an eMachine. Sure they are both computers, but as with everything else in life you get what you pay for. And that is the only place the Kindle Fire beats the iPad, on price. At $199, it's going to be very tempting to buy this over the iPad which starts at $499. My suggestion, if you can't afford the iPad and you just really really want a tablet, go for it. It's not all bad. Just don't come crying when you realize everything on it has to run through some Amazon version of the apps you like.
Windows 8
There was a big Windows conference which discussed next year's version of Microsoft Windows. It's been beautified, simplified, and given one heck of a face lift. To the right you'll see the new Windows start screen. Yeah, it looks like a tablet or phone or something. You could say the Windows team has been inspired by touch. The entire OS has been optimized to work not just on PCs, but on tablets as well.
Another thing you'll notice when using it, is that everything is faster. Boot time is faster, memory usage is much better, and everything in that fancy picture you see there (called Metro UI) will boot almost instantly.
The biggest change that will, in true Microsoft fashion, bring Windows closer in line to the newest features of Apple's Mac OS X is that there will be a Windows App Store. You will now be able to purchase programs for your computer directly from the App Store online just like you would an app on your phone. Think Quicken, Quickbooks, Microsoft Word, and games at the click of a button. Read more about Windows 8 on Mashable.
One More Thing...
Steve Jobs has passed away. I've been debating on writing something about Steve Jobs on here ever since he passed. However, I didn't feel I could do it justice. So I've read a large number of writings on his death recently, and nobody said what I wanted to say as well as MG Siegler has in his Techrunch post. So I will simply refer you to his post in hopes that you enjoy it as much as I did.
I've respected Jobs as a business person and visionary for quite a long time. There's a book I recently read on him called "The Steve Jobs Way: iLeadership for a New Generation" which was fantastic. I look forward to reading his authorized biography "Steve Jobs" when it finally launches too.
Below are some videos of Jobs that I thoroughly enjoyed that I thought many of you might also. I'll leave you with these until next time.
"Hey Chris! I have an old Compaq laptop and it runs really slow. How do I make it go faster??"
While there are any number of reasons a computer can be slow, I'm going to assume a few things on this one.
The very first step you should take is to download CCleaner. This program used to be called Crap Cleaner in the good ole days, but I guess when their parent company bought them they decided to clean up the name. Now install it!
Experience Note: As you go through the installers on free programs read each screen with a checkbox carefully. Uncheck anything it wants to install that isn't the program itself, such as a toolbar or spyware detectors etc. Currently CCleaner doesn't appear to have anything else installing.
Once it's installed, run it. Now we begin cleaning.
DONE! Well at least with CCleaner. Restart your computer and you should have a decently faster computer. At least once the computer is up and running you should notice you can have multiple programs going and it doesn't lag as much.
As for raw processing power speed increases, those come in two ways.
We'll just work with number 2 here because hey, these programs are free! Here are a few suggestions I have:
I hope this helps!! Please remember that what you do to your computer is at your own risk and if you don't feel comfortable doing anything I've written above, the best thing you can do is take it to someone you trust. Ask around and get recommendations based on experience with a tech. You don't want one that goes perusing your personal data and can't get the job done correctly. There are a lot of "computer guys" out there that don't know what they're doing. If you'd like someone to fix your personal computer or come out to your business, I'd go visit or call some good personal friends of mine at Advanced Data Services.
Chris Williams, Web Developer, WideNet Consulting
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I'm not the tree hugging hippy type, but I am the type who loathes pulling up to the gas pump. I'm also the type who hates giving my money to people who are actively using it against my country or, at the very least, building up a country other than my own. That being said, we have a solution.
Electric cars have come a long way since the first run years ago. They are also actively being manufactured and brought to sale here in the US. This is our ticket to energy independence. One of the big issues though is the cost associated with the nation's infrastructure swap and the early adopter cost because you'd be one of the first to jump into a new technology. Basically you're going to pay more today than you will in 10 years because they aren't that common. One thing that might possibly make you feel better about the swap is that you might not have to pay to drive around at all, except for the initial cost of the car and equipment of course.
Ford has announced that it will be offering a Solar Home option with the purchase of the new Ford Focus Electric. That's right. If you drive under 1,000 miles in a month, you would never be paying to fuel your car up again! How exciting! I know, I know. But it costs loads of money to get the Solar Home option. That money will eventually be recouped off of the electrical and fuel savings you gain. Some math:
$4.00 per gallon (most analysts agree we'll easily be at $4 next year)
1,000 miles per month (to compare with the Solar Home)
21 mpg vehicle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_efficiency)
1,000 / 21 * $4.00 = roughly $190 per month
$10,000 / $190 = 53 months or 4.4 years.
At that rate, you'd earn $10,000 in 4.4 years of just fuel savings and you would own it from that point forward. This assumes of course that they don't have a way for you to upgrade your Solar Home unit in those 4 years for much higher efficiency. Plus you'd save the time and hassle of fueling up. Don't forget how much good you'd be doing for the environment, our nation, and the future of the electric vehicle industry and it's associated industries.
I can't see this as being anything but a great idea. Again, it's not for the average low to middle income family yet, but it'll get there soon enough.
Facebook has finally thrown their hat into the group messaging app ring with Facebook Messenger. They really needed to do this with the recent launch of Google's Huddle. I've downloaded it on my phone and think the live updates to messages could really prove useful.
Facebook Messenger will allow you to message people directly on facebook like a normal message, through sms, or give you the option if you have the contact's phone number and they're one of your Facebook friends. This will provide faster and more direct communication with the people you actually know and care to talk with.
"One of the key elements of Messenger is its alert system. Users can choose to receive alerts for new messages, or they can turn them off. They can also delay alerts for an hour or until 8:00 a.m. the next day. The alert settings can be tailored for individual message threads or for all messages through Messenger.
Facebook admits its official mobile app will eventually have all of Messenger's functionality, but the company believes that having an app dedicated to quick messaging on the Facebook platform is something that will benefit its millions of mobile users. And it could give other group messaging apps like GroupMe a run for their money." Read More
How to get Facebook Messenger
Messenger is available for the iPhone and Android starting today. Just search for "Facebook Messenger" in either app store, or get a link to the app texted to your phone.
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A long time ago I picked a password I thought was great and I used it everywhere. This password is now what I call my "Throw Away" password. I have used it since 2001 and I use it whenever I sign up for a new service that I'm not worried about security on. I also have a "Common" password for trusted sites that don't involve my personal information (YouTube, Netflix, Facebook) and a "Secure" password for very personal sites (Email Accounts, Banking, Bills). Below I'm going to tell you why you need at least two types of passwords and what the definition of secure really means is in terms of a password.
Why You Need Multiple Passwords
Hacking happens all the time. Not the hacking of you per se, but the hacking of websites with shoddy security practices. Let me give you an example of why you should reserve one password for your "Secure" sites and use a "Common" password for others. Let's say you sign up for an account while buying a book at a random, previously unknown online retailer. This retailer has not taken it upon themselves to encrypt your password on their server and their server gets hacked. Now the hacker has your email address and your password. If you used the same password when signing up for the book site as you do for your email, they now have access to your email account. With access to your email, they can submit a "Forgot Your Password" request on many websites and get the email delivered right into their hands. With the email in hand they can change your password, and take over your various accounts.
The Solution is Very Simple
Create a new secure password for your email account, which of course you can fully trust since you're all using Gmail now. Now that you have your new secure password, this password should only be used on sites you can really trust to keep your password encrypted and protected. Nobody is perfect, but large scale sites like Facebook, Twitter, bank sites, online bill pay sites, and any other site you really trust can usually be relied upon to keep it secure, or to alert you immediately if there's a problem so you can change your password quickly. Then if you do have to change your password, you know the few sites you've trusted with this password.
Your other password I called "Common" should be the one you use on sites you don't grant the same level of trust you give your bank and bills. Sites like Netflix and YouTube are fine to use this password on. This way if something happens to those accounts the most you're out is some time in getting access back to your account and you avoid the full scale onslaught of your digital life.
What is a Secure Password?
I'm a big believer in a memorable, usable password. If your password is so complex you have to keep a record of it somewhere, especially if that somewhere is on a sticky note on your monitor or under your keyboard, then it's not secure. Your password needs to be at least 8 characters, because so many services require this nowadays, and it needs to have some complexity to it.
A Method to the Madness
Having a password like "Dj#wP3M$c" is complex, but it's just not necessary in most cases. What if instead you used a fake email address like "firstname.lastname@example.com" as a password. It's got symbols, uncommon words, and it's really long which would make it extremely safe. For added security you could even capitalize "My" and "Dogs".
Another method is to combine two easy to remember words into one. Take the two uncommon words (according to most password dictionaries) "Method" and "Secure". We could mesh them together into "MSeetchuorde" and have a very secure yet memorable password. I don't really like this method, but it may work for some. A variant of this is a theory new to me where you make your password at least three words with a space between them. So based on one smart guys research, "Fluffy Bunny Pillow" is easily one of the most secure passwords you could create simply because it has spaces in it. Note that the spaces are key. If a site won't allow spaces and you like this method, use something like an underscore "_" to fill the gap.
Personally, I prefer to create a new password by placing my hands on my keyboard and randomly typing something that comes out naturally and includes some numbers and at least one capital letter. An example I'll do just for this article is "Solin234". Try typing that a few times and you'll find that it's very easy on the hands, can be typed really quickly, and it even kind of sounds like a real word, which will make it easier when you try and memorize it.
Password Refreshes
Change your "Secure" password at least once a year just to be on the safe side. To be honest, I do it more like once every 2-3 years, but I also don't take Facebook surveys and I don't get computer viruses. If you're confident in your computer skills like me, then the regular changing may not be as necessary.
Tell me your favorite method to the password madness below in the comments!
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Time travel in chess
How would you fare as a chessplayer being transported back in time? Would your contemporary theoretical opening knowledge pay off? Would your understanding of modern ideas in chess strategy trump older concepts about chess?
These questions came into my head as I read a recent article on the Aardvarchaeology Scienceblog called The Fear of Time Travel. Consider:
First, imagine that you're dropped into a foreign city with only the clothes you wear. No wallet, no hand bag, no money, no cell phone, no identification. Pretty scary, huh? But still, most of us would get out of the situation fairly easily. We would find the embassy of our country of origin, or if it were in another city, contact the local police and ask to use their phone. A few days later we would be home.
That's not the scary scenario I rehearse. Imagine that you're dropped into the city you live in with only the clothes you wear. No wallet, no hand bag, no money, no cell phone, no identification. And it's 500 years ago.
You don't know anybody and nobody has any loyalty to you. You're wearing extremely strange clothes. You speak the local language but with a really strange accent and a completely outlandish vocabulary: many of the words you know have completely different meanings. You'll have a very hard time just explaining where you're from, which the authorities will no doubt ask. You know little to nothing of how society works, things like what polite manners are and even how to count the denominations of the local coinage if somehow you get hold of money. You're in a violent, patriarchal, disease-ridden place with no concept of the dignity or equal value of all humans.
(If you're interested in time travel and language problems, here's an interesting post on Language Log about it.)
In response to this fascinating thought-experiment, fellow blogger Orac wrote about the consequences for his own profession:
It would be very, very difficult for a surgeon of 2010 like me to recreate much of anything that I do now in the year 1710, even if I were dropped into Boston among the most learned physicians of the age. No one there would have any idea of germ theory (and thus sterile technique, both of which were 150 years away), anesthesia, or much of basic physiology. Indeed, at that time, diseases were thought to be caused by imbalances in the four humors or miasmas, for the most part. If I were to try to explain these concepts to the learned men of the time, assuming I could master the dialect of 300 years ago, they'd assume I was either mad or a witch. It would be a good thing for me that the wave of witch hunts and executions was pretty much over by the early 18th century.
How would a modern chess player do if he were transported back in time? Suppose a decent GM is thrown back hundred years, to the year 1910, and were to play a game against a player of his own level. The first interesting challenge would be to play with old-fashioned pieces and clocks. Have you ever tried thinking normally with those funny pieces that do not look like Staunton pieces at all? It's not that easy at all.
Alekhine (l.) vs Capablanca
Also, it was quite normal that the audience practically sat next to the players - pretty distracting if you ask me. (It also sheds an interesting light on the nowadays often-claimed 'right' to silence and good playing conditions.)
Rubinstein (l.) vs Mieses
Still, I think he would do reasonably well, especially as the game moved towards the middlegame and endgame. But then again, without a laptop, database, chess informants or Rybka it wouldn't be so easy to prepare for a guy like Spielmann, who played all sorts of now-offbeat lines of the King's Gambit. It also wouldn't be quite so easy to get hold of the latest chess publications with old-fashioned, difficult-to-read font types and badly printed diagrams.
I also wonder how our time traveller would deal with the chess mentality of someone like Marshall, who was known forhis ferocious attacking concept quite unheard of these days. Anyway, I still predict a relatively easy win for our local hero here.
Let's move a little further back in time. Despite conventional wisdom saying chess players get better as history progresses, I wouldn't be surprised if the chess version of Marty from Back to the Future would find it rather difficult to play against someone in the year 1810. These were the pre-chess clock days, when games would sometimes take days and players would think for hours over one move. It would be quite tough physically, apart from the even weirder opening choices of some players. I doubt Marty's thorough knowledge of the Sicilian Najdorf would be of any use when facing the openings of these days. You don't believe me when I say the ancient opening lines are perhaps not so easy to understand for modern chess players? Have a look at this position.
Here's a little riddle: Which of the two white players played the best move in this position (12.Ba3), good old Adolf Anderssen or young superstar Alexander Morozevich? You'd be surprised to learn it was Anderssen.
Also, let's not forget Bobby Fischer's statement about Paul Morphy:
A popularly held theory about Paul Morphy is that if he returned to the chess world today and played our best contemporary players, he would come out the loser. Nothing is further from the truth. In a set match, Morphy would beat anybody alive today.
What about even going further back, say to 1610? In these days, modern chess was already being played very actively, meaning queen and bishop already moved the way they do now. Piece of cake to beat these ancients, then? Well, not exactly. Our time-travelling grandmaster would have real trouble taking into account the complex rules of castling, and even capturing en passant was not universally acknowledged back then. Think about how tricky it would be to calculate lines in which you had to disregard castling or taking en passant, as well as all sorts of stuff like minor promotions.
Lucas van Leyden: The Chess Players (1508)
In medieval times, the rules of the game were even more different than that. I think a decent player from those days would probably beat any GM in medieval chess, with its slow progression of pawns and lack of dynamics. Don't forget that even world level grandmasters are vulnerable to very simple oversights in Fischerandom chess. (I once saw a Fischerandom game in which Gata Kamksy blundered an exchange on move seven.) Arab chess, with its fantasy pieces, would be an even bigger problem. Its fair to say the skills acquired in modern chess would be totally useless against the best players of those days. Our current GM title would simply be meaningless.
It's a humbling thought that all of our efforts in modern chess, the countless hours or preparation, training and excercise, are so dependent on the moment we live in. Perhaps in chess there is no reason to be quite so pessimistic as with medicine or some other disciplines. But I agree more with the author of the above mentioned blog when he points out that
...if there's one thing this little thought experiment has done for me, it's to make me realize how much of what I do depends on hundreds of years of history and science and any achievements I may have in my career rest squarely on the shoulders of giants.
We often take it for granted that the strongest chess players of our age are automatically the strongest players that ever lived. But strongest at what? At most, they are best at playing the game we play under the current circumstances - circumstances that were quite different just hundred years ago. Take away some of the conditions and everything changes instantly. And this, of course, is the very basis of all science fiction based on time travel. Change the past and you change the present. No Morozevich without Anderssen! Great Scott!
Arne Moll:
De nada ... van Leyden's pic also proves that Courier Chess was being played regularly in 16th C Netherlands ... a time of war and strife, armed standoff with the spanish Flanders etc. .. time travellers, ahoi......
Jens Kristiansen
4 years 3 months ago
It is beyound doubt that Barcelona FC 2010 would beat Real Madrid 1960 convincingly. As well as Federer 2010 would beat Rod Laver 1962 and Anand 2010 would do the same to Aljekhine 1930. Neither would Einstein be able to dispute with some 1.grade students in physics nowadays. It is as simple as already Newton put it: "I have only reached so far because I was standing on the shoulders of giants". Ok, perhaps an insufficient metaphor, but anyhow...
But...we can not get a definite proof as we do not have any time machine and, most likely, will never have them. But IF we had time machines, a far more interesting experiment would be to "teleportate" (or what ever it is called - Star trek?) some of the old chess geniuses to our time and see what they could do, OK, after some due time to adapt. Some of them, Philidor, Morphy, Capablanca, Lasker, Pillsbury amo. was able to reach a comparatively high standard of play in spite of very little chess culture around them. It could be they were in some ways genuine and some over all chess geniuses (what ever that is) and would be able to adapt to modern play. But...we will never know...speculate, speculate...(nice pastime).
BUT..we have another way to meassure the impact of time when it comes to chess. In the development of technology there are also some skills that are decreasing. Fi.: After I got my first PC with WP installed in 1991, I am sure that my typewriting skills got slowly worse and worse. I still know some elderly women who are unbelievable fast and PRECISE at the tabs, using TEN fingers! But they are dying out...
Ok, folks, when it comes to chess skills you can meassure yourself against the oldtimers in ANALYSIS. . Can any of the young and strong GMs of nowadays make an analysis (of course without the aid of a comp) of an adjourned game as fi. Botvinnik could do it? Or could you analyse an endgame and come up with some general guidelines as fi. Troitsky and Cheron amo. could do it?
For this we do not need a time machine. Just try the task for yourself - it could even be it would be to benefit of your your general play
I like the photo Rubinstein (l.) vs Mieses is there a date for this picture?
Morphy or Alekhine would lose a handfull of games to a present-day very good (and opening expert) GM, but very VERY soon they would be playing at least at his level.
Not to mention if we provided Morphy or Alekhine all present-day theory, some week before the encounter! In that case, look out! Our modern GM maybe better be not that modern, but instead be some guy dead a year ago, and burried in Iceland!
Otherwise he might not stand a chance... ;-)
Jim Scott
4 years 3 months ago
We have seen top GM perfom not well in open tournaments because they don´t play the usual lines in closed tournaments. Old players played better chess because they didn´t have to memorize the game. I agree they could play better 960 chess than the actual ones.
Arne, I understand and agree with the latter part. I wasnt really referring to the column itself. However, several replies above seem to suggest that past GMs could in fact compete today were it not for massive amounts of opening theory, and i think the Nunn chapter might refute that suggestion a little.
4 years 2 months ago
Fischer would almost everytime win against whoever and in whatever opening. That's the little detail.
Experimenting, understanding and using old ideas (and, in the process, putting down lots of chess dogma) was merely one of his many ways.
4 years 3 months ago
There's a great science-fiction book I'd recommend: "Doomsday book" by Connie Willis. It tells the story of a young historian accidentally stuck in the 14th century she was set to study. This turns out to be quite far from a stroll in the park for her.
4 years 3 months ago
The people commenting in that time-travel link suffer from a lack of imagination, and from persecution mania. ;-)
Interesting post. I have a team-mate who plays very well in the romantic style; I sometimes wonder if 150 years ago, he would be one of the world's best players. I also think that whilst Capablanca is usually regarded as a better player than Lasker, if they both time traveled to today the pragmatic, dynamic, flexible latter would be in the world top ten - whilst the lazier, positionally-categorical former would not.
4 years 3 months ago
Great post, i have often wondered about this myself but you fleshed it out really well.
4 years 3 months ago
What do people have with timetraveling? It will never happen, so why spend so much time about it?
Probably the same reason as why people spend time on chess, Meppie: it's fun!
One thing to consider here is that today's theoretical best player is taken from a pool of 6 or 7 billion humans whereas the best players from the past come from much much smaller pools. One could hypothesize reasonably that they would more likely be smarter or more clever or whatever it is that makes some players better than others.
Also, haven't humans developed physically over the years, even recent years? Are our brains more developed? I know, must not be very developed considering the way the world is but perhaps still moving forward...
4 years 3 months ago
@ jazzkoo
If you are representing 'so called' better developed people then heaven help us all...
Capablanca will kill most of todays players still with no theory knowledge.
He was a CHESS PLAYER unlike the jouneymen of today (exception...Ivanchuk and Kramnik)
Rob Brown
4 years 3 months ago
I noticed that the board depicted in VanLeyden's painting is 8x12, another complexity for our modern time traveller.
8 x 12 - no complexity at all - waht is shown is a game of Courier Chess, an older version much played in northern Europe in the 16th to 19th C - and still in use... check on www. chessvariants.com.....
@ ceann
"If you are representing 'so called' better developed people then heaven help us all…"
not to worry. i'm not "representing" anyone. you're safe...
David Herz
4 years 3 months ago
thank you, both diverting and intriguing. With our overriding obsession on ratings and rating points, the discussion often going so far as to push the game itself into the background, just to see how they played in the old days, to win, or for beauty, and not to accumulate points, is refreshing. Can you imagine Botwinnik (or Fischer) worrying about points? ...Fischer's comment is fascinating, did he elaborate? Or was it something on the level of Morphy had such consummate natural talent that he would be up to modern snuff in no time?
8 x 12 - also www.courierchess.com - this fellow Rick Knowlton has actually reconstructed the chess pieces on Lucas van Leydens' painting, makes and sells them for Courier Chess enthusiasts...
4 years 3 months ago
I think many of the great players of the past would cringe at the massive amount of theory they would have to master in order to play high level competitive chess today. Some, such as Alekhine, could do it, but I suspect Capa, Lasker, Morphy, and Pillsbury would give up the game because of the study grind. I mean, how much fun is it to whip out 24 moves of theory in the Semi-Slav? This is not the kind of chess the past greats enjoyed. Yeah, there was some opening theory back then, but compared to what they would have to assimilate today....it would be torture for them to become competitive.
4 years 3 months ago
Es un análisis inútil; este texto -demás está decir- es meramente ficcional. De periodismo tiene apenas unos yeites, y nada más. La hipótesis de partida -un ajedrecista de buen nivel de la actualidad que viaja en el tiempo hacia el pasado- es un juego cerebral que no construye; es un pensamiento de mero entretenimiento.
Desde la estética el artículo es correcto, desde la ideología este tipo de periodismo es difícil de justificar. Teniendo recepción -es decir, una audiencia, un conjunto enorme de lectores-, teniendo capacidad crítica, ¿qué necesidad hay de hacer un análisis de esta envergadura? ¿No hay críticas concretas que puede elaborarse hacia el ajedrez? ¿Disfuncionalidades? ¿Injusticias? ¿Maniobras de poder que "envenenan" el juego? ¿Dónde está la causa del periodismo? ¿Dónde está el eje social en estas notas -y en casi todas las notas de este periodista?
Este artículo es entretenimiento, vale. Es divertido ("it's fun!"), vale. Es distracción, vale. Y es, de la misma forma, completamente funcional. Esto -con perdón del redactor- es periodismo inútil. A la sociedad, además de entretenimiento, no le aporta nada. Y si el periodismo tiene que aportar sólo entretenimiento, entonces -ahí sí-, estamos en un problema. Un problema ideológico. Claro.
No quiero remontarme a críticas mucho más importantes, críticas de base. Ya mismo en el ajedrez hay un montón de reflexiones pertinentes, de críticas posibles; hay una estructura viciada. Y este periodismo, desde un punto de vista social, es falso periodismo. Antiperiodismo. Es una parodia. Y a buena porción de la población -justamente (y no casualmente)- le gusta.
Sorry if I wrote this analysis in spanish, but my english is really bad. No way i can make a serious anaysis in that language.
We're on "chess culture", or "chess thinking" grounds here, NOT necessarily on chess journalism. (BTW, the obvious answer the editors would give you is that this is filled under "columns", and not under "reports").
I'm very critical on some of the journalistic tendences here (and Arne's in particular), but I find this kind of matters largely pertinent, regardless of if one could call it "journalism" or not.
By the way, this kind of matters (chess culture and thinking) interests me a lot, and ChessVibes has been having many interesting columns.
The absolutely imaginary premises for this particular column has even the advantage that it is not easy to distort facts. Just have different imaginations and beliefs.
That said, I think it's far from Arne's best takes, but the issue is completely pertinent, and it's good someone took on it!
I think a good present-day GM would have lots of successes against (say) the 1890's chess elite, but not for long (unless he'd be a, say, top 10 today).
Being, for instance, a 2650 GM, if he could be strait away paired with Steinitz or Lasker for a world title match, probably he'd be WC. But if he had to run the usual tournament road for becoming a recognized master, ALL the opening theory would have a completely different course, from then on (that's the power of travelling time :-) ), but THEY (the then super GMs) would master HIM, not the opposite!
4 years 3 months ago
Nice article Arne, entertaining. I think the players of the past would have big difficulties even with a sub-elite GM because of the opening theory the later would gave them a real advantage to start.
Not to say past masters were inferior, far from the truth. Is like saying today's average scientists are smarter than say Einstein or Newton. In the same way Morphy or Alekhine still would have his natural talent to compete. But regarding preparation today GM are much more advanced. Later in the game the most talented player could prevail with his skill. So probably the results would be like this:
Past genius chess master player vs. present average GM: 1/2 or 1-0
Past genius vs. present genius: 0-1
4 years 3 months ago
Regarding the last part of your article, when you say the farther away we move from present rules the harder it gets for trained professionals, I think we can use a concrete comparison from nowadays, without having to elucubrate too much: How do you think a GM would perform when firstly exposed to the rules of chinese chess?
4 years 3 months ago
Yvonne: It looks like this game, listed only as "Berlin, 1909": http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1119717
4 years 3 months ago
Seriously, I think in 960-Chess some of the old masters could compete at the mainz chess classics.
@eso es, thanks for the info on the Van Leyden painting. Fascinating stuff!
I have this tactics book by John Nunn in which he has included a chapter called "test of time". In this chapter he describes computer checking some 1920 or 1930 GM tournament and i thought (not really sure - i dont have the book here)his conclusion was that the level of play was far worse than modern day, based purely on tactical mistakes.
GroteG, comparing past and present masters is obviously impossible, even in the 'objectíve' way Nunn tried to do it. And of course this wasn't the point of my column. In fact I tried to do the opposite: even if we ignore all purely chess-related knowledge, practical aspects would probably dominate in any hypothetical scenario.
4 years 2 months ago
consider the old masters being teleported to today, and without preparation, being put in a tournament with today's best. I feel it's quite possible that the old guys' lack of opening knowledge might even work in their favor. They would be trotting out old openings that have long since been gone from the modern GM's memory, or openings so out of style, that our guys would have trouble with it. Isn't that what Fischer used to do? Trot out some old antique of Steinitz, and win games?
Yes indeed, bruce, that was what I tried to imply, too, with my example of the Anderssen/Morozevich game.
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