Category: 2008
Moore’s Law has been the golden rule in predicting the increasing of personal computing power for more than a decade, but change has arrived. A couple of years ago, Amdahl’s Law became the governing law (without an inauguration). Multicore computing is…
Photonics is a difficult subject because it involves electromagnetism that is basically an invisible and unintuitive world to many students. Yet this is a promising and thriving technical field where many jobs are being created.Computer simulation of l…
SecondLife has drawn extensive interest among educators. It is an attractive immersive environment for multiple users to interact with each other through navigating in an interesting 3D landscape. SecondLife represents the latest effort of developing 3…
The basic concepts of evolutionary theory are contained in the National Science Education Standards (National Research Council, Washington, DC, 1966) as well as those of the various states. For example, in the table below we show the alignment between the “big ideas” of evolution and the science standards for three states: Massachusetts, Missouri, and Texas. […]