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Oct 18, 2011
Before we can go on and explore the building blocks in more detail, we need to learn a little bit about the fundamental underlying language used in computers: the binary number system. Based on my kids’ school, this appears to [...]
Oct 17, 2011
So I was wrong when I wrote that Occupy Wall Street would at best help draw media attention to inequality. I had suggested that instead folks should spend their time building startups that disrupt existing institutions. It now seems that [...]
Oct 14, 2011
Dennis M. Ritchie passed away yesterday. Ritchie was the creator of the C programming language and the co-creator of the Unix operating system (together with Ken Thompson) starting in the late 60s and early 70s. Both C and Unix have [...]
Oct 13, 2011
Do you have a passion for creating technology to better connect teachers with each other and their students? Then you should consider working at Edmodo. The company, which is based in San Mateo, provides a free and safe social network [...]
Oct 11, 2011
Welcome to Tech Tuesdays! This is the first installment and as I had promised I am not assuming any prior knowledge other than as an enduser of computers. Instead we are starting with the absolute basics. Every computing system has [...]
Oct 10, 2011
Tomorrow I will be attending an “Innovation Summit” hosted by the Darden School of Business. I just finished reading Peter Thiel’s “The End of the Future” in the National Review. Thiel’s argument is that underlying our economic difficulties is a [...]
Oct 6, 2011
It feels a bit strange now that I wrote a post yesterday morning about “Apple’s Glory Years,” not realizing that in the evening I would see the news that Steve Jobs had passed away. There have been many excellent tributes [...]
Oct 4, 2011
Fred’s MBA Mondays series has been really terrific and has inspired me to start a Tech Tuesdays series, which will launch next Tuesday. The subtitle for Tech Tuesdays could be: Everything you always wanted to know about computers but were [...]
Oct 3, 2011
I have tried out quite a few social news readers and they all suffer from pretty much the same flaw: they give me more of the same. I will already have seen most of the stories that they present in [...]