Category: College

Yesterday, I read how the business school had a security breach with 197,000 files were exposed to the attacker. I didn’t think much of it, as never being attached to the business school, and thought it was a bit of poetic justice to the entity that seems to act a bit more than cocky. Then,…

Everyone close to campus remembers the crazy mob of people who visited The University of Texas following our football National Championship win at the Rose Bowl. The Tower was lit with a 1 in the “Athletic Championship” configuation. Everyone acted like they had never seen it. Without checking on the minor sports, baseball has won…

The use of tokens in the early Mespoptamian region as a precussor to the written symbol is a plausible and interesting idea. It makes the transition from speech to writing easier to find. For example, the early cave paintings found in France told us that our prehistorical brothers and sisters attempted to record events in…

It is funny to think how much we take Turing and his work for granted today. My roommate is an electrical engineer and I’ve tinkered in programming since 1990 (I still miss BASIC). For me, this concept is a given. A computer using a simple binary system for everything. It is either X or O,…

We all remember the butterfly ballot that led to so much talk about the validity of the 2000 Election. This is a very good example of poor information design. A redesign would be extremely simple. Assuming the same machine functions the same way and is the same size, I would design something based on the…