2007 has been a depressing year, and I don’t think that it’s just me. I’ve pretty much given up on watching TV news or reading newspapers. Doing so just adds to the malaise. And because of the writers’ strike, the one remaining palatable news source has been unavailable. (Now if I [...]
A recurring theme on computer science blogs is what might be done to encourage more women to enter (or remain in) the field, and to promote more diversity in general. For example, a recent post at On being a scientist and a woman talks about why women leave the academic career path (this is [...]
(2/18/07 – A little update has been added at the bottom…)
A few weeks ago there was a bit of a buzz amongst bloggers concerning this story by the BBC. It was reported that Dr. James Anderson, a computer science instructor at the University of Reading (UK), had constructed a technique for handling division-by-zero by [...]