Information Processing

As far as I know, the Feynman diagram embedded in the atrium floor of our physics building is the largest in the world. I often overhear cam...

One of the students who has worked part time at Robot Genius is graduating from Stanford in computer science. My advice to him and to others...

John Battelle describes HP's HALO system for virtual meetings. Please, let this become cheap and widespread so I can stop schlepping ar...

This Times article describes the exodus of senior engineers from Japan to other Asian countries, in particular companies in Taiwan. Hsinchu...

Ultimate fighting has grown from obscurity to unbelievable popularity -- it will soon surpass boxing as the premier combative sport. And, it...

I'm teaching about fission, fusion, nuclear power and bombs in class this week. I always search for the simplest way to organize and pre...

Galison : "My question is not how different scientific communities pass like ships in the night,'' he wrote in Image and Logi...

A colleague and I recently discussed Peter Galison and his book Einstein's Clocks, Poincare's Maps: Empires of Time . (See also her...

Via Brad DeLong , Robert Solow's review of a new biography of Joseph Schumpeter. New Republic : ...In my view--and that of most contempo...

The news is filled with articles about how competitive college admissions has become. See here for the latest from the Times. The usual cul...

Malcolm Gladwell shows exquisite taste in the subjects he writes and talks about -- he has a nose for great topics. I just wish his logical ...

"Horses ain't like people, man, they can't make themselves better than they're born. See, with a horse, it's all in the...

Ha, ha. One of the funniest things I've read in a while. Thanks to a quant correspondent for this. I think it's clear ML only vaguel...

Recorded at Network World headquarters outside Boston. We got it done in one take! A new approach to fighting malware A recent Geek Squad re...

I've been teaching about the two slit experiment in my introductory physics class. The course is for non-science majors, so I'm not ...

Woo hoo! Michael Douglas is back as Gordon Gekko, and just in time. Too bad Oliver Stone isn't back to direct as well. I predict that th...

Yesterday I heard a great interview (Bloomberg podcast -- unfortunately no longer available online; but see here ) with venture capitalist V...

Sorry for the lack of posts -- I was traveling all of last week. Some recent press coverage of Robot Genius : InfoWorld Network World Dark R...

One of the things I often complain about is that doing fundamental physics is like trying to push a big rock -- it's very hard to tell w...

Some nice discussion here by financier turned internet entrepreneur Roger Ehrenberg. His blog is on my Google Reader list. See also here ....

There's a new glossy business/finance magazine on the racks, called Portfolio . In their first issue they've got a profile of Citade...