academic freedom vs. free speech and the Web
Can the web be used to improve the quality of ideas, or is it going to just be a world-wide shouting match of people not listening to one another? Read the rest of this entry »
Archive for September, 2007
power play three
Last night, I had the pleasure of seeing Penn State’s solar decathalon house. These guys are brilliant, not insofar as the solutions they propose are all that novel or even so well executed (I’m hoping their design is fully realized, i.e., done, a few short weeks away when the house gets carted off to the National Mall in Washington DC.) The thing that is great is Read the rest of this entry »
power play–two
Today the power went out in four buildings on campus. Not my building. And almost instantly, people were poking their heads out of their offices and cubicles gopher hole style all over my building. Why? Because we are so dependent on a completely centralized functioning grid. Read the rest of this entry »
power play–one
Apologies–I started this post almost two months ago, and now I finish it. But it works because I was just going to post something related anyhow.
Begin old post…
So, this week I was trying to do something about my household energy consumption.
As some may have read, the governor of Pennsylvania is currently locked in a budget stalemate with the legislature because he wants state support for reducing reliance on fossil fuels. But in general, there are no resources here to help those who want to reduce their energy consumption. Read the rest of this entry »
Start
Well I thought that I should figure this thing out too. Can I use this as a blog or pensive?
I have started teaching now 
I teach introduction to computing and data structures and algorithms. Not much is drawn from my MS degree but I try to inculcate stuff I learned in the intro course.
Now that I am all rested and stable I need to do something apart from teaching that could be research, generation of design ideas for new tools, moulding old semester papers or thesis into papers or journal articles (so atleast I should have one publication ) . I need help in where to start.
Hope everyone is alive and kicking
Umber