…source vendors and advocates calling for the new administration to consider open source software in government IT initiatives and infrastructure. Of course, we’ve been thinking about open source software’s power…
…what technology can do for education. And as a new face around our halls, I’m personally thrilled to be a part of it all. But, frankly, a conversation gets pretty…
…license. I’ve written a wiki page describing how to build and install this new version of Java on Mac OS 10.5.6. Build OpenJDK Java 1.7.0 on Mac OS X 10.5…
…on regular roads, including travels on highways, regular streets, and even down the famously twisty hills of Lombard St. in San Francisco. The New York Times says that the most…
…and Mayor Michael Bloomberg has agreed to answer the call in New York City, you may find this little experiment worth your while–you may pick a color that does not…
…funding by the US National Science Foundation. Heat transfer calculations aren’t new things to engineers. There have been plenty of commercial software that have been developed to simulate heat transfer….
…in solving many scientific problems that involve huge calculations. Computational scientists are used to think in the language of parallelism. So a 128-core computer is nothing new for them. It…
…runs twice as fast in FireFox as the faster method in Chrome. Other people who view your test can contribute new results when it is run in their browser also….
…new friends and a number of old friends, and have a great time. One way we showed our thanks was through our Thanksgiving tree, highlighting the many ways we’re thankful…
…heats the Earth and makes it habitable for us. So when the Sun is more active, the Earth should get warmer, right? Wrong. New research, recently published in Nature, shows…