Read this: Quantum computer solves problem, without running. My conclusion: this article would be a whole lot easier to swallow if the date would have said “April, 1″ instead of “February 22″.
Yesterday, I read about tabletop particle accellerators in Scientific American - electrons surfing shockwaves, roughly. And a couple of weeks before that, an announcement […]

Hi all,
A bit of a short notice, mainly because we hade to shove this in between today and StS , but please mark 11th March 2006 in your diary if you’re a Smalltalker within reasonable travel distance of Brussels.
The VUB Programming Technology Lab will host this day of informal chat, presentations (Bryce will […]

I was going to write a long post about this topic, but luckily someone cut me short. In How to Do What You Love you youngsters can all read about what to do and, more important, what not to do after leaving school. In fact, start right now
One of the best bits:
[…] It […]

I looked at a short report about the opening of the Winter Olympics - the summary is all I can stand these days, these opening ceremonies are ceremonies-by-committee: long and boring.
Anyway, they showed the Danish equipe entering the stadium. After frowning for 10 seconds, it struck me what was odd about the scene - […]

Ok, you won’t see an announcement of the new Google Censorship Beta product any time soon, but it is a fact that Google happily cooperates with the Chinese government in hiding some, err, facts from the Chinese citizenry.
Juan Vuletich notes an interesting example. This is what the international audience sees when looking for […]

In Delay after Delay, Travis Griggs thinks that “Delay is a fun class to explore”.
That might be, until you hit a side of it that is less fun.
Kolibri relies heavily on processes and delays - and on terminating them, which is most probably the main cause of our problems. Andreas Raab pointed out that […]

This is a book for advanced Feynmanistas - if you’ve never heard of the man (very unlikely) or read about his life (unlikely if you live in the USofA, more likely if not), you are probably better off with Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! or What Do You Care What Other People Think? - both […]