(1) Stanford's in the news today for: Stanford just made tuition free for families earning less than $125,000 per year. The news is usually accompanied by pictures of smiling students and balloons: For example. ...and it usually takes the article in question a few paragraphs to get
"The Gender Gap in Math" presented by the Harvard Undergraduate Mathematics Association Panel: Gigliola Staffilani (Professor, MIT Math), Rediet Adebe '13 (PhD, Harvard SEAS), Hilary Finucane '09 (PhD, MIT), Alison Miller '08 (Postdoc, Harvard Math) Moderator: Sarah Richardson (Professor, Harvard Social Studies) Notes legibility estimate:
Languages and concurrent programs Zac Kinkaid -- U. Toronto Notes legibility estimate: LOW Automatic analysis of algorithms We'd like to know things like "What numeric types are used here? Are these array accesses in-bounds?" Today: Proving the absence of faults in multi-threaded programs. Multi-threaded programs are
On the advice of Bill Gates (GatesNotes | 6 Books I Recommended for TED 2015), I picked up this free-to-read chapter of John Brooks's Business Adventures, titled "Xerox Xerox Xerox Xerox". What a fantastic read. In a story reminiscent of the dot-com boom that would come forty
These are my cursory notes from a talk given by James Mickens of Microsoft Research, in March 2015, titled "Building a Better Web Browser". Notes legibility estimate: MEDIUM --- The State of Progress Chrome, Opera isolate the renderer in separate processes -- this allows tabs to crash on