Ned Gulley’s Blog. Resident buzzwords: synthetic biology, ambient displays, swarm robotics, wise crowds.
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 30th, 2004
With a 3-D printer rapid prototyping machine, you can now create just about anything you can mathematically describe. It doesn’t have to be practical or easy to machine. If you can picture it, you can build it. (If you’re wondering how in the world 3-D printers work, Z Corp has a nifty animated explanation.)
But what [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 28th, 2004
Yesterday while I was at Tower Records in Harvard Square I noticed they were playing some fun reggae/dance hall music. “What album is that?” I asked the cashier. He showed me the album: Beenie Man: Back to Basics. I like Beenie Man. I have a few of his albums. Why not buy it? I [...]
Posted in Autism & Jay on Sep 24th, 2004
Jay and his Granddad
Every year around this time, a bunch of people from in and around Boston go for a three mile fundraising walk along a section of the Charles River near Harvard. The walk is called Walk FAR for NAAR, and the funds raised go to autism research. Last year this one Boston walk [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 23rd, 2004
For a long time I have been an admirer and occasional purchaser of The Comics Journal, an improbably entertaining critical journal of the comics industry published by Fantagraphics. I enjoy reading about the how the world looks from the artist’s viewpoint, the problems they face, the way they go about solving them, the dirt they [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 22nd, 2004
The biological analogy for computer viruses gets ever stronger. It used to be that “virus” was somewhat over-the-top as a description for the simple software hacks that passed for malware. As the world of software grows more complex, however, the description gets ever more apt. Now we begin to see that there are computer-health public [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 16th, 2004
Maybe you remember Chris Lydon from his days as the wise voice of the Connection on NPR. He’s an excellent interviewer and an entertaining prose stylist, but he’s also enough of a curmudgeon to get himself tossed out of his Connection job at WBUR. It’s too bad, because he’s still doing great stuff, but I [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 14th, 2004
I started reading Eric Snowdeal’s blog over a year ago because I saw a number of his interests overlapped with mine. He was working at a high tech company (Motorola), very much interested in biology and bioinformatics, and also very much into the blogging revolution. He’s also happens to be the kind of person that [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 10th, 2004
How do you decide whether or not you should put on a coat before you leave your house in the morning? I like to open the door and step outside, but my wife likes to open the newspaper and read the forecast. Both of us are reading a display of the weather, but mine is [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 9th, 2004
James Fallows, the tech-savvy journalist normally seen over at the Atlantic, has a generally glowing review in the NY Times of the free internet phone service called Skype: Business > Your Money > Techno Files: In Internet Calling, Skype Is Living Up to the Hype” href=”http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/05/business/yourmoney/05tech.html”> In Internet Calling, Skype Is Living Up to [...]
Posted in MATLAB on Sep 8th, 2004
Last spring I wrote an article for interactions magazine, the official magazine of SIGCHI, the ACM’s Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction. My paper was about the MATLAB Online Programming Contest, which I’ve mentioned in this space a few times. You can’t get the article from the interactions website without an ACM membership, but my [...]
