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LHC – rapping about

By Eugene Barsky on August 12, 2011

Here is LHC rap with more than 6M views on YouTube

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UBC Thunderbird Robotics hosts the 7th Annual International Autonomous Robot Racing Competition (IARRC) over the July 23rd – 24th weekend.

By Eugene Barsky on July 18, 2011

UBC Thunderbird Robotics hosts the 7th Annual International Autonomous Robot Racing Competition (IARRC) over the July 23rd – 24th weekend. IARRC is aimed at promoting R&D efforts into fully autonomous small-size ground vehicles – in particular the associated artificial intelligence software systems that run these vehicles. Student teams attending in the competition are expected to [...]

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Nobel lauriate lecture in UBC – Beta beams and ion cooling : Future of accelerator driven neutrino oscillations? by Carlo Rubbia

By Eugene Barsky on May 4, 2011

Here is a podcast of a lecture by Carlo Rubbia who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1984 with Simon van der Meer, recorded a couple of years ago by Kevin Lindstrom and myself here in UBC: Future of accelerator driven neutrino oscillations? More info about this lecture and the slides presented by Prof. [...]

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Google Translate – Useful Tool or Gibberish Generator?

By Kevin Lindstrom on November 19, 2010

Putting Google to the Test in Translation An article posted in the March 9, 2010 issue of the New York Times compares how well Google Translate, Yahoo Babel Fish and Microsoft Bing Translator compare against the skills of a human translator. Google has poured resources into improving its automatic translation service. Some of these systems [...]

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Engineers Unravel Mechanics Of How Cats Drink.

By Eugene Barsky on November 12, 2010

** hats off to ASEE daily alert for this one: The New York Times (11/12, Wade) reports, “It has taken four highly qualified engineers and a bunch of integral equations to figure it out, but we now know how cats drink. The answer is: very elegantly, and not at all the way you might suppose.” [...]

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Web of Science Journal Selection Process

By Kevin Lindstrom on September 24, 2010

Wondering why some journals are in the Web of Science database and others are not? Read the full article here The Thomson Reuters Journal Selection Process Why be selective Thomson Reuters is committed to providing comprehensive coverage of the world’s most important and influential journals to meet its subscribers’ current awareness and retrospective information retrieval [...]

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RefWorks workshops for the Sciences

RefWorks workshops for the Sciences

By Eugene Barsky on September 20, 2010

Katherine Miller from Woodward library and myself are offering a few RefWorks workshops for our Science and Engineering faculty, students and staff: Tuesday, September 21st, 2010 at 9:30AM – 11:30AM in Koerner 217 – http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/1087 Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010 at 10:00AM – 12:00PM in Woodward B25 – http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/1090 If you need a personal training about [...]

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B-mesons making their mind in Fermi Lab

B-mesons making their mind in Fermi Lab

By Eugene Barsky on May 19, 2010

As recent article in NYT discusses new findings in the FermiLab – http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/18/science/space/18cosmos.html?src=me&ref=general The new effect hinges on the behavior of particularly strange particles called neutral B-mesons, which are famous for not being able to make up their minds. They oscillate back and forth trillions of times a second between their regular state and their [...]

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Why is the search for extraterrestrial intelligence any different from the search for goblins or unicorns?

By Kevin Lindstrom on April 22, 2010

Newsmaker Interview: Imponderables Complicate Hunt For Intelligent Life Beyond Earth Dr. Paul Davies a professor at Arizona State University, Tempe discusses his role in the search for intelligent life beyond Earth. Read the full interview here. Other articles published by Dr. Davies include Are ALIENS among Us? Davies, Paul, Scientific American, Dec2007, Vol. 297, Issue [...]

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Large Hadron Collider (LHC) starts smashing

By Eugene Barsky on March 30, 2010

According to its press release, the LHC started smashing particles today. See also the story in NYT – http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/31/science/31collider.html?bl

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