The very first AP class I took in high school was the Computer Science AB test. Today, I learn from the Washington Post, that the Computer Science AB test is on the chopping block (along with Italian, Latin literature, and...
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Posted on April 4, 2008 12:22 PM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
Last year, Google announced a set of resource to help students and faculty with CS education. They've revamped the set of resources and redesigned the web page and all the jazzy stuff to produce: Google Code University. Marty Stepp, whose...
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Posted on March 19, 2008 12:57 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
I grew up in the middle of nowhere. I read all, and I mean all, of the science and math books in my local library (and nearly all of the Scientific American magazines as well.) Because this was before the...
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Posted on December 19, 2007 7:17 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
Researchers Dispute Notion That America Lacks Scientists and Engineers in the Chronicle of Higher Education is a fine example of how thinking that scientific or engineering degree's are like technical training degrees will lead you to say all sorts of...
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Posted on December 1, 2007 1:34 PM • 29 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
From the magazine Seattle Metropolitan, comes the article "Smartest city ever: 50 ways Seattle will change the world." I hope the claim is true, but like all magazine articles from rags denoted entirely to a city, the lens is more...
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Posted on November 29, 2007 3:00 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
This morning I received a funny email from a graduate student here at UW, Nicholas Murphy, which made me laugh out loud (reproduced and linkified here with permission from Nicholas):Subject: Times Higher Education Supplement rankings: a study in spin http://www.topmba.com/fileadmin/pdfs/2007_Top_200_Compact.pdf...
Posted on November 14, 2007 2:20 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks• View blog reactions
Dave Bacon is a theoretical ski bum who is also an assistant research professor at the University of Washington in Seattle. His research is on quantum computing, his scientific passions extend to everything in physics, mathematics, computer science and beyond, and his personal pleasures include making wine, playing poker, skiing, camping, and daydreaming (although not all of those at the same time.)
