The MIT Media Lab course on Learning Creative Learning for Spring 2013 has come to an end. While the course boasted twenty or so in-person students who received academic credit, I was one of over 10,000 online students who signed … Continue reading →
I just finished reading Seymour Papert’s Mindstorms, the first couple of chapters of which were assigned readings for the MIT Media Lab course on creative learning, but I found so enjoyable that I kept going. The central topic of the … Continue reading →
I started reading Philip Greenspun’s database-backed web application books and articles around 2005. While I had previously seen database development as the droll, boring corner of computer science, as I realized how useful it could be to route a database … Continue reading →
This month saw the publication of Don Knuth’s Art of Computer Programming Volume 4A. In eager anticipation of receiving my copy in the mail, I was reading some of Knuth’s writings on number theory. This ostensibly had nothing to do … Continue reading →