It's that time of year again.  The Student Competition for the conference on User Interface Software and Technology ( UIST ). The goal o...

When surfing the web and catching up on technology news, it is incredibly easy to become accustomed to the rapid pace that new products are ...

See, learning can be cute and fun! I donated " one truckload of gravel to pave a school yard " because I personally believe th...

Today, Sameer Agarwal and Keir Mierle (as well as a couple others I'm sure) at Google open sourced the Ceres Non-Linear Least Squares So...

These past couple weeks, there have been a few videos released from the group I work in at Google. Congratulations to the many people in X w...

Recently, I've been playing with these inexpensive Syma Remote Control Helicopters . At the time they were only $20 (but seemed have b...

Puzzle 2 is now done! Puzzle 3 is a drawing (not text). As we get to more complicated puzzles, it's clear that loading, rendering,...