Happy Thanksgiving!

This article first appeared in the Eduk8me newsletter. Be sure to subscribe to be the first to get articles such as this. Isaac Asmiov was a prolific writer, completing almost 500 books in his lifetime. The article points out six things he did to help him complete this amount of work. I’m going to focus…
What I want to say is that in the span of my career little has changed or advanced about the ways of academic conference activity. The very first one I attended in 1992 baffled me– a room full of people watching a speaker at a lectern read slides about the need to change the way…
Is Google teaching us anything? – Shooting Azimuths In his book The Shallows, Nicholas Carr suggests that the internet is making us dumber. Carr finds that the vast amount of hyperlinked information available on the internet means that depth of knowledge has given way to shallowness. Casually disregarding the internet’s arguably most significant feature, Carr…
I am going to spend the next few days recharging and I hope you get a chance to recharge too. For help, I’m posting a picture of a kitten… On a beach.
The game of Go has been played for over 2,500 years, and it was believed at one time that the computer would never be able to play it competitively. Chess fell to the computer against strong human players in the 1980s, culminating with IBM’s Deep Blue win over world chess champion Garry Kasparov in 1997….