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The Watering Hole - Now the Shoe's on the Other Chest

Yes, I know, Ice Age kinda did this joke first, but not quite the same way....

My Credo

"I Promise Never To Program A Computer To Play Something I Can't"

The Watering Hole - And Just Imagine What the UPS Looks Like

Supercomputers may be getting fast, but they're also getting hungrier.

The Lessons We Don't Learn

In my Twitter stream today, Sylvia Martinez (@smartinez) retweeted a link to Seymour Papert's 1980 paper written for a Presidential commission that proposed that we provide a computer for every child in America. Long before One Laptop Per Child, Papert saw that computers should not be an "auxiliary" aid to learning but "fundamental" to changing how we learn. He understood...

Computer Security Basics

Hi, It is about time I got started on this blog. Computer Security Basics was a landmark book when it was first published in the early 90s. I was honored to have the chance to update it in 2006. Now...

Why study computer science?

Try to imagine a world without computers.

Practice, Play and Computers

Back channel communications at O'Reilly can be fun. Lately, we've had a running thread about the role of practice and play in learning, and how that impacts the educational process (and the educational industry, which are not even remotely the same thing).