Now that the intensity of the debate over encryption has temporarily subsided somewhat again after the confrontation earlier this year between the FBI and Apple, I want to state my support for the technology companies working to ensure our privacy by protecting the integrity of encryption. And my position is clearly colored– okay biased–by a… Continue reading Encryption and Privacy
“Once upon a time…” many moons ago, I looked forward to the nightly ritual of one of my parents or older siblings reading to me at bedtime, and later doing the same with my son. I still have one fairy tale book that invariably caused me and my son to occasionally fall off the bed laughing,… Continue reading Stories
I grew up during a time when big business dominated. The ideal career was to get a job with an established company, climb the corporate ladder, then retire to a warmer climate and play golf. So when I got hired by Bell Labs, I was on the right track because the Bell System was known… Continue reading Entrepreneurship
I mentioned that I wrote often during my career but published little. Here is one example I found in my files. I apparently wrote it at the start of my fourth year teaching, but never really shared it until now. Yesterday (January 14, 2004) we had what for me was a very depressing department meeting. … Continue reading Student Teaching Evaluations
This post was triggered by a text message from my son: “Another one for the AM reading list. And should we believe it?” followed by a url. My son moved to a distant state over three years ago and on the several occasions when he has visited since then, we generally fell into a pattern… Continue reading Walkin ‘n Talkin
As a junior physics major in college, I took my first programming course in Fortran. The first program we were assigned to write was one to find prime numbers. Apparently there was an algorithm known to the ancient Greeks (see Wikipedia, Generating Primes) for doing so. At the time I didn’t know that, indeed I… Continue reading Learning Technology
As I indicated in my last post, I think I do a lot of learning informally in my daily activities. I recently had an unsatisfactory interaction with a sales rep for a home repair company–my house got hammered with hail almost a year ago and with all the damage in the neighborhood, it’s been tough… Continue reading Evolution of Learning
LEARNING TO LIVE WELL 