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Tuesday, 18 December 2012

Dear UPenn Engineering, Please read my open letter to Judge Business School

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Dear U Penn Engineering Like Judge Business School, you use a third party site to obtain your references for applicants to your graduate p...
Friday, 14 December 2012

Asking for a pardon for Alan Turing alone is a shameful act

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Today, a number of famous scientists have published a letter in the Daily Telegraph   requesting a posthumous pardon for Alan Turing's c...
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Tuesday, 4 December 2012

Dear Judge Business School, Cambridge: Whatever your online reference guys are paying you to use their software, it's not enough

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Today I filled in a reference for a former student who wishes to undertake a course at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge.   The...
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Monday, 15 October 2012

Understanding the Nobel Prize

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It's not often - maybe never before now - that I've understood technical aspects of the work behind a Nobel Prize. But today I fou...
Tuesday, 7 August 2012

Not the way the world's greatest sportest event should be

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Thanks to Neil Moore for  this link . The article quotes one Prof Forrest: "We have identified four sports where there is vir...
Tuesday, 14 February 2012

Shooting a googlewhackblatt in the foot

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A googlewhackblatt is a single word query to Google that gets one hit.   And one such word is autopedoballistic.   Made up to mean shooting ...
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Friday, 7 October 2011

Ada Lovelace day

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Kind of sad that I didn't see Ada Lovelace da y coming.   I don't know if it needs better publicity, but I hope it's no reflecti...
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