The Super Bowl, and What is Legal

The Super Bowl, and What is Legal

This article by Sherwin Siy is an amusing piece looking at the NFL’s copyright warnings, in light of “The Big Game” today. You may not make comments on this post I’ve written […]

Science Magazine on Mathematical Creativity

Science Magazine on Mathematical Creativity

There was a great article published today in Science about mathematicians, where their funding comes from, and how it affects the research they do (and I’ll unabashedly say that I think mathematics […]

Online Monitoring

Online Monitoring

We’ve been hearing for a long time about NSA surveillance online. Turns out, our own CSE was at it as well. Not so much a constraint on online creativity, but […]

Coding Style and Digital Creativity

Coding Style and Digital Creativity

I saw some raised eyebrows last week when I said that I could tell, in the Google v Oracle case, that two different programmers had touched the nine lines of code […]

Open-Access Publication: Creativity, Constraints, and Ethics

Open-Access Publication: Creativity, Constraints, and Ethics

A very interesting short piece about the recent surge in open-access journals. As a bit of background about the “traditional” and “open” manners of publishing scientific papers: In the traditional form, authors […]

AI and Creativity

AI and Creativity

Today in class, we talked briefly about artificial intelligence (AI) and what it means for creativity. I thought this article that I saw yesterday comparing the smartness and creativity of […]

Weekly Student-Hour: 20 January 2015 – Slides

Weekly Student-Hour: 20 January 2015 – Slides

Here are the slides from my presentation on 20 January 2015, in case anyone wanted them. Cheers! Weekly Student-Hour: 20 January 2015

The More Things Change…

The More Things Change…

Just to expand on today’s brief discussion of the rather circular nature of government support for cryptographic software (and to a lesser extent, new technology in general): 1976: After the […]