• Postdoctoral Position in Quantum Computation

    Updated: 2012-01-30 14:18:05
    Applications are invited for a two year postdoctoral position in Quantum Computation at the Centre for Quantum Technologies (CQT), Singapore. The position is associated with the research group of Joe Fitzsimons and located at CQT on the campus of the … Continue reading →

  • Notes on MediaWiki extension programming with API actions and Ajax calls #wpsfhack

    Updated: 2012-01-21 22:48:58
    Publish Date: Sat, 01/21/2012 - 14:40I've typed up notes from a very information-rich one-on-one session with Roan Kattouw, author of much of MediaWiki's API code, on how to write an extension that provides custom API calls and uses Ajax to invoke...

  • wikipedia hackathon

    Updated: 2012-01-21 04:16:13
    Publish Date: Fri, 01/20/2012 - 20:11I'll be at the Wikipedia Hackathon in San Francisco all weekend. The event is focusing on the software's API and Javascript tools, so I'm hoping to come out prepared to bring WorkingWiki into the 21st century ...

  • Una Macchina Automatica James Gleick

    Updated: 2012-01-20 11:10:03
    Skip to content Skip to content Home About Books Events Archive Defining Information , Even More The Flinging of Notes Una Macchina Automatica Posted on 7 October 2011 by gleick Indirect and abstract by its very nature , the telephone now seemed to be the positive symbol of my own situation : a means of communication which prevented me from communicating an instrument of inspection which permitted of no precise information an automatic machine , extremely easy to use , which nevertheless showed itself to be almost always capricious and untrustworthy . 8221 —Alberto Moravia , Boredom 1960 This entry was posted in Bookmark the permalink Defining Information , Even More The Flinging of Notes One Response to Una Macchina Automatica jason kauffman : says 20 January 2012 at 4:38 am i enjoy

  • Una Macchina Automatica James Gleick

    Updated: 2012-01-20 11:09:54
    Skip to content Skip to content Home About Books Events Archive Defining Information , Even More The Flinging of Notes Una Macchina Automatica Posted on 7 October 2011 by gleick Indirect and abstract by its very nature , the telephone now seemed to be the positive symbol of my own situation : a means of communication which prevented me from communicating an instrument of inspection which permitted of no precise information an automatic machine , extremely easy to use , which nevertheless showed itself to be almost always capricious and untrustworthy . 8221 —Alberto Moravia , Boredom 1960 This entry was posted in Bookmark the permalink Defining Information , Even More The Flinging of Notes One Response to Una Macchina Automatica jason kauffman : says 20 January 2012 at 4:38 am i enjoy

  • new paper in progress: Reflexive graph operations for clustering

    Updated: 2012-01-20 02:58:28
    Publish Date: Thu, 01/19/2012 - 18:54I'm working on a new paper on the research wiki:http://lalashan.mcmaster.ca/theobio/worden/index.php/Laplacian_Paper It's about using the structure of a network (its graph Laplacian, for those who care) to oper...

  • The New School of Software Engineering?

    Updated: 2012-01-11 16:33:27
    This is a great video about how much of software engineering runs on folk knowledge about how software is built: “Greg Wilson – What We Actually Know About Software Development, and Why We Believe It’s True” There’s a very strong New School tie here. We need to study what’s being done and how well it [...]

  • How to Send Adam into Hysterics

    Updated: 2012-01-10 13:27:54
    Via Nathan Yau’s awesome Flowing Data blog.

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