Overheard In Providence

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 […]

An amazing absurd moment in division III football (the announcing is actually my favorite part):

In case you are unfamiliar, a football can only be thrown forward once per play. Any subsequent throws, called “laterals”, must be backwards. These are quite uncommon, since the players involved run a high risk of dropping the ball.