Introduction November 11, 2022 — Dr. Scott Fahlman is a Professor Emeritus in the Carnegie Mellon’s School of Computer Science. He is a computer programming language connoisseur and the original neural network jedi master. He was one of the core … Read more
Apple recently made a booboo, unlike any other booboo in the history of programming. Even though Apple’s bug is unprecedented, here’s a brief overview of some predecessor bugs. X Back in 2006, the X server checked to make sure the … Read more
So, here’s a Vision Of The Future that’s popular right now. [embedded content] It’s a lot of this sort of thing. As it happens, designing Future Interfaces For The Future used to be my line of work. I had the … Read more
If you’ve been a Mac user for more than a few years, let me ask you a question: what is the newest application you have installed that turned out to be so useful and well-made it’s now part of your … Read more
SMITHSONIANMAG.COM | Sept. 2, 2021, 7 a.m. This article is from Hakai Magazine, an online publication about science and society in coastal ecosystems. Read more stories like this at hakaimagazine.com. In a sparsely furnished office building in the shadow of … Read more
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This is the companion reference for A Brief Introduction to Esoteric Languages, my lecture for a friend’s college class. The video should be legible to other viewers, and the material here should be (mostly) understandable without watching the video. [embedded … Read more
Scholars today associate “polar madness,” generally speaking, with a combination of environmental factors like the cold and the dark—which can disrupt circadian rhythms and hormonal balances—and psychosocial factors, such as isolation, confinement, monotony, and the interpersonal conflicts that inevitably arise … Read more
In the midst of a global crisis, the hedge fund has prospered. The top fifteen hedge-fund managers earned an estimated $23.2 billion last year, according to Bloomberg. Chase Coleman, the forty-five-year-old founder of Tiger Global Management, led the way, hauling … Read more
Over the last 50 years, we’ve made a lot of progress in developing the Internet from a tiny interconnection of a handful of computers to a worldwide fabric with billions of nodes. During that journey, we’ve learned an enormous amount … Read more