During the summer of 2009, I had the good fortune of taking part in the Red Hat POSSE programme, meeting a bunch of excellent open source peeps, and getting a sense for how I might introduce more of my students to the world of open source contribution. This last spring, my colleague and I introduced [...]
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twitter and tea
One of our third-year students is giving a talk about two of his passions today: Tea and Twitter. Pat Canella ’11 will present a talk titled “Twitter and Tea” at 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 17 in Alden 101. The talk will focus on Canella’s own experience with the tea community, on Twitter and other [...]
ipad and ebooks
I gave an introduction in Technology and Activism the other day to the Creative Commons. In that introduction, we (briefly) explored two thought problems:
[ music ] How long until you can own every song ever written? My first question had to do with music. If $60 buys a 500GB hard drive, you can put one year . . . → Read More: ipad and ebooks
knuth’s charge
In the preface to The Art of Computer Programming (1969), Knuth wrote the following:
I would posit that the vast majority of students who complete an introduction to Computer Science (often heavily focused on introducing the practice of programming) would not say that they felt they had been exposed to “an aesthetic experience much like composing . . . → Read More: knuth’s charge
it’s alive!
Omer passed on this picture:
That is a concurrency.cc Arduino-compatible board fired up and ready to go. As you can see, the vias aren’t really lined up that well, which may account for some intermittent USB-to-serial weirdness that he is chasing down at the moment.
Awesome job, Omer! If all goes well, I think we’ll have around . . . → Read More: it’s alive!
programming less visually
Operation: Stick Figure Army is a project that will provide tools for converting 2D imagery (as typically found in many introductory computing texts) into 2.5D representations: physical tiles with raised and textured surfaces that represent one or more diagrams from a text. This lets us explore, as a group, image processing, 3D printing, and the [...]