A Personal Pantagraph

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A Beautiful Mind

Thursday, February 9th, 2006

A few weeks ago Koren Burling, a science teacher at Spring Creek Elementary, sent out an email soliciting judges for this year’s Science Fair for 5th and 6th graders. My daughter recently became a third grader at Spring Creek, so I was only too happy to help. I was intrigued by a comment [...]

Sacrificing Chickens Considered Innefective

Monday, January 23rd, 2006

Another day, another proposal submission. Today I sent off a proposal to the WySGC. The idea is to support myself and my two new Ph.D. students for the summer, so we can pursue automated programming in the context of NASA’s Crew Launch Vehicle and Crew Exploration Vehicle. The surefire recipe for funding [...]