“Classic vs. Modern Computing” 
Lesson 8 – The Theremin 
“Quicksort Inventor Tony Hoare dies” 
“Sentient AI” 
Radio Signals
My six-year-old son Obie was riding in the car with me Saturday night and asked a question that brought about...
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Additive Manufacturing
By 3DPrinthuset (Denmark) The building on demand (BOD)printer developed by COBOD International (formerly known as 3DPrinthuset, now its sister company) ,...
The slow demise of an industry
It is a sad week in the High Performance Computing (HPC) industry as one of the best known giants in...
Celebrating Numbers
We like to use numbers to represent things in the natural world. I believe this is because we can...
Batteries Past, Present, and Future
As we learned over the last couple of weeks, what we see as new technology in electric generation...
The power of the Sun
You might find it hard to believe that people have been converting the power of the Sun to...
Power from the wind
In recent years you may have noticed a lot of talk about the use of wind turbines to...
Rock, Paper, Scissors
This week we will begin a very short series in programming and let you get started with your...
Flexible and Affordable Computers
Have you always wanted a computer to learn programming, surf the internet, check e-mail, or just for fun,...
Impacts of the Global Positioning System
The Global Positioning System (GPS), in operation since January 6, 1980, was designed to broadcast date and satellite...