This semester, I find myself teaching a dual-credit Computer Science course to students at a local high school. The class started tonight. Leading up to it, I couldn’t help but think that the last thing…
A REVIEW OF JOSEPH LUZZI’S MY TWO ITALIES Add Joseph Luzzi’s recent work to the list of American memoirs that explore a particular strain in the Horatio Alger mythology. It’s the story of the son (or…
When it comes to corporate scandals, Volkswagen has pulled off a doozy. To reduce its emissions numbers without sacrificing performance, Volkswagen equipped its diesel-powered cars with software that could detect when the vehicle’s emissions system…
For almost four decades now, we’ve relied on public-key encryption to secure the keys we use to encrypt our data. The most popular form of public-key encryption, RSA, depends entirely on how difficult it is…
While it is true that our vehicles are getting smarter and autonomous vehicles are becoming a reality, human drivers have a significant advantage – they can more easily adapt to new situations that may occur.…
The airline industry has had a number of incidents lately in which its operations have come to a halt because of a computer glitch. This past July, United Airlines delayed and canceled several flights because…
I must say, taking batting practice off Randy Johnson and Roger Clemens during middle school was one of the most intimidating experiences within my sporting career; and it wasn’t even real. The experience was an exhibit…
Two hundred years we knew nothing about the past history of humankind. Each culture had its own version of some myth of creation. But in all of them, human beings were the end-all and be-all…
A Review of David Orr’s The Road Not Taken. The subtitle of Orr’s work devoted to the Robert Frost poem a year short of the 100th year of its publication is indicative of his…
The images that are coming out of Hungary today, yesterday, this past week, are so searing that I regularly find myself in tears. I realize that I have internalized the fear and anxiety of a…