The story of the 2017 CES was drones. Drones to deliver packages. Drones to inspect oil pipelines. Drones to follow traffic. Drones to spy on you neighbor. One company offered drones to bring the last remnant of paper mail to beleaguered offices. Another upped the ante by suggesting that drones could bring food to those … Continue reading Retrospective: CES 2017 & The Trillion Shot Latte →

It’s a crazy place. It’s a crazy time. And we help you understand the crazy. The Consumer Electronics Show, now known solely by the initials “CES”, is one of the largest grade shows in the world. It fills the Las Vegas Convention Center and spills into the hotels. It is hard to make sense of … Continue reading Retrospective: CES 2016 →

A pair of guests. A Blue Screen of Death. The Perils of Live Podcasting. The time is rapidly approaching for the Consumer Electronics Show and its engineering counterpart, the International Conference on Consumer Electronics. Anna, our intern, wanted to give a preview to the show and talk about how it will be emphasizing cybersecurity but … Continue reading CES: Parents Preview the Consumer Electronics Show →

A pair of guests. A Blue Screen of Death. The Perils of Live Podcasting. The time is rapidly approaching for the Consumer Electronics Show and its engineering counterpart, the International Conference on Consumer Electronics. Anna, our intern, wanted to give a preview to the show and talk about how it will be emphasizing cybersecurity but … Continue reading Consumer Electronics Show 2018: Preview →

Every field has its seasons, its rituals, its traditions, its myths.  Information technology, too, has stories that it tells  at certain times of the year.  In that spirit, we offer a myth from the ancient of days, which is to say the 1950s.   Anna-the-intern narrates this year’s presentation of “Songs of Comfort and Joy,” As … Continue reading Computing for the Season: Songs of Comfort & Joy →

Why do we need to learn to code? Really. Can’t we just get an app and be done with it? A bunch of tech people are giving us a bunch of reasons to do it but they are, in all honesty, silly. Fix a web page? Add a function to your spreadsheet? Have these people … Continue reading Why Do We Code? (Computer Science Week) →

Why do we need to learn to code? Really. Can’t we just get an app and be done with it? A bunch of tech people are giving us a bunch of reasons to do it but they are, in all honesty, silly. Fix a web page? Add a function to your spreadsheet? Have these people … Continue reading Why Do We Code? (Computer Science Week) →

Once computing was work. Hard work. Paper. Pencil. Nothing more. Once, thousands of people calculated in mass computing labs. Now, they are generally forgotten. This November, The National Institute of Standards and Technology has corrected our memory by honoring their chief computer from the 1930s, Gertrude Blanch.   Blanch was the director of the Mathematical … Continue reading Remembering Gertrude Blanch Because We Should →

Once computing was work. Hard work. Paper. Pencil. Nothing more. Once, thousands of people calculated in mass computing labs. Now, they are generally forgotten. This November, The National Institute of Standards and Technology has corrected our memory by honoring their chief computer from the 1930s, Gertrude Blanch.   Blanch was the director of the Mathematical … Continue reading 17510: Remembering Gertrude Blanch →

How do you fix a troubled startup? How do you mend a broken heart? When your startup is in trouble, you can look for solutions in every possible direction but the right one. Vinny considers the possibility of a simple technical fix for Maddie’s increasingly complex Watcher Dogz. Featuring: Zoe Anastassiou as Maddie-the-8-year-old-entrepreneur Geoffrey Grier … Continue reading Working in the Neighborhood →