I think one of the most interesting aspects of theoretical computer science is its exploration of the relationship between machines and lang...

From this deduction of our faculty of cognizing a priori there emerges a very strange result, namely that with this faculty we can never ge...

One of the last projects in my dad's long career was in biomedical manufacturing.  It took five years and never went to market.  In that...

We like to think of ourselves as somehow apart from all this information.  We are real — the information is merely about us.  But what is...

In the 1930’s, Claude Shannon had two ideas that gave rise to modern computing.  The first is that logic can be expressed in electrical ci...

Olduvai Stone Chopping Tool, 2M BC The oldest technology is food production.   A few million years ago, humans chipped their first stone...

It's taken some time, but I've shrugged off much of my childhood shyness.  This change came in part from gaining experience--after ...