When you visit this blog, your computer sends a message to the computer that hosts this site. That computer, in turn, responds with the priceless content currently being displayed by your web browser. This simple exchange, in essence, is the purpose of the internet; it provides a way for computers talk.
With so very many computers [...]
Taking my cue from Stephen of cogitamus, I’m obliged to announce my acquisition of a macbook air just over a week now. Also I’m writing this from my local coffee shop, which I think makes the whole post more authentic.
So far I’ve found the Macbook Air to be quite lovely. I’ll admit, it’s not [...]
Sometimes people ask me exactly we computer science types study. What is a “computer” really? Why are computers so important? How do they relate to the world around us?
Footage from IBM’s booth at the 1964 worlds fair fills in some of the details (skip to 2:30 if you like) :
As a graduate student in computer [...]
It’s a few days old, but I just saw this Engadget post pointing me to a nanotechnology-related Wired article. The article highlights some recent work of Professor Michael Kozicki, demonstrating a new method for storing data using nanoscale copper wires.
Today’s technology takes about 10,000 square nanometers to store a bit of data on a chip [...]
Building on an ongoing theme, it’s only fitting that I mention google office’s new presentation app. Unlike word processing and spreadsheets, I make power point slides fairly often, so I was pretty into the idea of a google-based replacement.
The great thing about making slides online is that there’s not need to transfer them from [...]
A while back I sung the praises of internet-based computing. With google office, for example, you never have to install a program, and you have access to your documents anywhere, and all your stuff is automatically backed up. What more could you possibly want?
Well you probably also want a photo editor. Good thing Adobe just [...]
The Zonbu is a new low power, environmentally friendly, $99 dollar computer. It has no moving parts (so it’s totally silent) and limited storage (4 GB of flash). Most of its computing power comes from being connected to the internet, so Zonbu users actually pay the company for monthly storage (although the storage is actually [...]