Sylvia Plath – Fever 103 Throw the first stone. I will endure it. I am purified by fire. -Poetry for engineers summarizes poems with attention to style and usage.
Poetry for Engineers
E.E. Cummings – anyone lived in a pretty how town Ask why, (not how) as children do, There’s room (for two) in your canoe. -Poetry for engineers summarizes poems with […]
Poetry for engineers
William Shakespeare – Sonnet 116 “No love but unconditional is love.” – Poetry for engineers synopsizes famous poems with attention to the poet’s style and usage.
Turing’s time

Last night we attended the world premiere of Sentences, Nico Muhly’s homage to Alan Turing, composed as a performance by counter-tenor Iestyn Davies. It was a lovely performance, consisting of seven sections, […]
The Tech Curmudgeon – iMacs “Assembled in USA? Don’t make me ROTFLMAO….

Some iMacs are now apparently “Assembled in USA.” The Tech Curmudgeon doesn’t think that phrase means what you think it means….
Changing science fiction, changing the world: Scholars & Rogues honors William Gibson
I have been known to say that William Gibson is arguably the most important author of the past 30 years. That’s a mouthful of an assertion, especially since we’re talking about a […]
How digital is transforming politics: a special report from Mashable that's well worth a look
Unless you’ve been off-world for a few years, it’s not news that electronic media technologies are exerting a dramatic impact on our political sphere. However, being generally aware of the fact and […]
S&R 701 Final Exam, Spring Semester 2012
Watch the two TED talks below. The question, which represents 100% of your final grade, follows. First, Nick Hanauer in 2012.
Coming of age in the games industry: The Collective Agreement
by Michael Smith It’s no secret that the video games industry likes to compare its successes to those of the film industry. For several years now, game sales have surpassed the box […]
Kara is self-aware: technology is climbing out of the uncanny valley, but toward what?

The uncanny valley is a hypothesis in the field of robotic and 3D computer animation, which holds that when human replicas look and act almost, but not perfectly, like actual human beings, […]