Saturday, August 31, 2013

Out of the Box Thinking - 3D Printers in Space

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It is fairly standard advice that if you want to come up with a new solution to a problem, you have to look at it differently. You need to...
Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Learn How to Program Computers!

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Say What? News photo of an experimental self-driving Volvo from Engadget report . Computer procesors show up almost everywhere these da...
Thursday, August 22, 2013

What's the fuss about parallel programming?

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What's the fuss about parallel programming? A young friend of mine, now a 2nd year computer engineering student, asked me: What is ...
Thursday, August 8, 2013

Software Development isn't a Field for Loners

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Preview image from us.123rf.com, "Collective Problem Solving", copyright Stanislav Komogorov A young friend of mine, a first year...
Sunday, July 28, 2013

Pythonic Python - Writing Python code that fits the language's idioms.

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A recent posting by +Luke Plant to the Google+ Python community about the importance of PEP-8 reminded me that for quite a while now I...
Saturday, July 27, 2013

MOOC's: Be careful what you wish for.

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There's an old warning that you should be careful what you wish for, because you just might get it. Here's an article from the Sla...
Tuesday, July 16, 2013

FIeld Trip and an Unusual Looking Flag

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Flag image by Blas Delgado Ortiz, 27 June 2001 A few weeks ago, while we were visiting my brother-in-law in a nursing home in Queens, we h...