By Eugene Barsky on July 31, 2008
The New York Times has an article today about an ancient Greek technology known as the Antikythera Mechanism A very interesting read indeed – Discovering How Greeks Computed in 100 B.C. The NYT article cites a letter published in Nature today – Freeth, T; Alexander, J, Steele, JM, Bitsakis, Y (July 31, 2008). “Calendars with [...]
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By Eugene Barsky on July 25, 2008
Randy Pausch, the computer scientist from Carnegie Mellon Univ, whose “The Last Lecture” speech on September 18, 2007 at Carnegie Mellon University inspired so many (including yours truly) had died yesterday night. Watch Pausch’s last lecture on youtube – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo From Carnegie Mellon Univ press release: Celebrated in his field for co-founding the pioneering Entertainment [...]
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By Eugene Barsky on July 21, 2008
The 2007 Canadian Internet Use Survey was released on June 12th. Interesting findings include: “Almost three-quarters (73%), or 19.2 million Canadians aged 16 and older, went online for personal reasons during the 12 months prior to the survey. This was up from just over two-thirds (68%) in 2005 when the survey was last conducted. For [...]
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By Eugene Barsky on July 11, 2008
On 4 July 2008 Science had an editorial about peer-review process. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/321/5885/15 Written by the Science editors, including Bruce Alberts – the Editor-in-Chief, it is indeed an interesting read! Have a look.. ** Photo by selva
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By Eugene Barsky on July 3, 2008
On June 15, 2008 Thomson Reuters ISI has published a short report about Canadian Science. Canada’s world share of science and social-science papers over the last five years is expressed as a percentage of papers in each of 22 fields in the Thomson Reuters ISI database. Also, Canada’s relative citation impact compared to the world [...]
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By Eugene Barsky on June 25, 2008
Rube Goldberg machine is a deliberately complicated apparatus that performs a very simple task in very indirect and convoluted fashion. Many engineering schools have Rube Goldberg machine contests – see Purdue University site or University of Wisconsin Milwaukee site I particularly like this Honda ad below that uses the Rube Goldberg machine principle ** Thanks [...]
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By Kevin Lindstrom on May 30, 2008
New types of journal metrics grow more influential in the scientific community AT ONE POINT in his career, Nobel Laureate Sir Harold W. Kroto was the second most highly cited chemist in Britain—topped only by the University of Southampton’s Martin Fleischmann, one of the proponents of cold fusion. Kroto, who codiscovered C60 and is currently [...]
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By Eugene Barsky on May 21, 2008
IEEE.tv is an internet based television network that produces and delivers special-interest programming about technology and engineering for the benefit of IEEE’s members and the general public. IEEE.tv Public Access is free of charge to the public, and does not require IEEE membership or log-in. Here is the url to view its programs – http://www.ieee.tv [...]
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By Eugene Barsky on May 14, 2008
Microsoft’s much anticipated WorldWide Telescope was released on Tuesday – May 12th, 2008. There is a very nice article about it in the New York Times – Two New Ways to Explore the Virtual Universe, in Vivid 3-D Moreover, around two months ago, Google also introduced a Web-based version of Google Sky, layering space images [...]
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By Eugene Barsky on May 5, 2008
Vancouver, BC, April 23, 2008 – BCNet puts on the Broadband Innovation Challenge to promote student innovation with respect to the use of high-bandwidth networks. At the 2008 Challenge, students from UBC’s Computer Science department took top prize in the graduate student category and 3 prizes in the undergraduate category. In the graduate student portion [...]
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