Information Processing

I met Jonathan Rothberg, a real pioneer in genetic sequencing technology, at Scifoo back in 2008 (see Gene machines ). Jonathan's fou...

Nabokov was professor of literature at Cornell from 1948-1959. The excerpt below is from a 1964 Playboy interview, reproduced at longform...

You may have read ( NYTimes ; enjoy the 500 expert comments!) about the recent OECD study of adult skills, which showed Americans lagging b...

John Bagot Glubb , a British officer in the first and second world war, and British Commander of the Arab Legion during the Arab-Israeli war...

This is consistent with my experience as a parent and educator: my guess is that number sense is a cognitive module, at least somewhat di...

My son wanted a mutant cyclops jack o lantern :-) Did I mention my kids love Calvin and Hobbes?

For more discussion of our recent paper ( The human genome as a compressed sensor ), see this blog post by my collaborator Carson Chow and ...

The dreaded heel hook in action. Palhares has been banned from the UFC after this fight, for holding the submission too long. It doesn...

These quotes appear in an  excerpt  from a new biography by Brad Stone. Stone uncovers some new ground -- tracking down Bezos' long-lost...

Photos from the World Summit on Innovation and Entrepreneurship , held at the Museum of the Moving Image , NYC. It seems that every region...

Great article by Nick Bilton on the creation myth (and true story) behind Twitter. To see that luck plays an unimaginably huge role in life ...

Compressed sensing (see also here ) is a method for efficient solution of underdetermined linear systems: y = Ax + noise , using a form...

Congratulations to Peter Higgs and François Englert on their Nobel prize . A bit of background from an earlier post How the Higgs boson bec...

Here's to the NHS! The plan is to complete this in 5 years. Welcome to Genomics England We are a new company set up by the Departm...

Yesterday Samir Mathur gave a colloquium here on the black hole information paradox. I've known Samir for many years; he was an as...

Nature editorial condemns research in cognitive genomics. A slight exaggeration, but consistent with the level of reporting in the accom...

As I wrote in an earlier post Beanbags and Causal Variants : Not only do these results implicate common causal variants as the source of h...

I don't recall doing much homework until I was in high school. My grade school kids already have quite a bit to do, although I wouldn...

See also Expert Predictions  and Medical Science? New Yorker : ... Redshirting is the practice of holding a child back for an extra year b...

Biotechnology meeting with Malaysian Prime Minister. New Mission Bay campus of UCSF. Espresso in Berkeley. ...

[ See this 2015 post for updated statistics, normalized to size of school population. ] Commenter LY linked to this CollegeConfidential a...

Wow, this is awesome. Thanks to a former student now managing billions in fixed income assets for the link ;-)

These photos are from my high school reunion last summer. I'll write a bit more about it here when I have some time. 18 National M...

Jonathan Wai  and Max Nisen rank US universities by student ability level as measured by SAT/ACT for BusinessInsider  ( methodology ). Note...

Timothy Bates, a professor of psychology at the University of Edinburgh, and an occasional commenter on this blog, has a new paper out, whic...