Aaron Swartz
Aaron SwartzAaron Swartz, computer programmer and activist, committed suicide on January 11th, aged 26 SMALL, dark, cluttered places were important in the life of Aaron Swartz. His days were spent hunched in his bedroom over his MacBook Pro, his short-sighted eyes nearly grazing the screen (why, he asked himself, weren’t laptop screens at eye level?), in a litter of snaking cables and hard drives.
Beate Gordon
Beate GordonBeate Sirota Gordon, interpreter of Japan to Americans, died on December 30th, aged 89 DRAFTING a constitution isn’t something one does every day. It took Washington, Franklin and Co several months to achieve, that steamy summer in Philadelphia in 1787. When Beate Sirota was roped in to do it, in chilly, ruined Tokyo in the spring of 1946, she was amazed. She was no lawyer. She was 22,
The half-life of facts
IN PRIMARY school Babbage learned that there were nine planets in the solar system. None were known to exist outside it. Since then, astronomers have spotted over 800 planets around other stars (and thousands more "candidates") and demoted Pluto to a mere "dwarf planet". Even a cursory glance at other fields reveals similar patterns. Samuel Arbesman, a mathematician at Harvard, calls this "The Hal
Learning new lessons
Learning new lessonsOnline courses are transforming higher education, creating new opportunities for the best and huge problems for the rest TOP-QUALITY teaching, stringent admissions criteria and impressive qualifications allow the world’s best universities to charge mega-fees: over $50,000 for a year of undergraduate study at Harvard. Less exalted providers have boomed too, with a similar model
An algebraic decongestant
By G.F. | SEATTLE A BIT of congestion can quickly lead to a big slowdown. This is as true of the internet as it is of driving. When a file is transmitted over a network it is divided into packets, or chunks of data, which are re-assembled in the same order at the other end. Many networking protocols recognise when a packet is missing, as they are numbered to keep track. Responses vary, but protoco
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Shape up
Rise of the software machines
The next big thing
On the turn
Herd instinct
Staying put
Slightly off
Coming home
The story so far
Here, there and everywhere
Bad dreams all round
Scoop!
Valuing patents
Music to the ear
Yes, ja, oui, no, no