Reflections on science, technology, and computing — leavened by personal experience


A few days ago, I had the opportunity and pleasure to chair a panel on AI as part of the David Eccles School of Business (DESB) Alumni forum at the University of Utah.

I am pleased that I am being appointed to the National Science Board, where I hope to help the NSF continue to support and sustain scholars – young and old – and to advance scientific research and ensure national competitiveness.

What really happens when one writes a loop or invokes a procedure? Computer architecture as the big reveal

A thing of transfixing beauty, the code pirouettes gracefully, dancing in my mind, conjuring the possible.

Suddenly we were playing Ender’s Game, making software decisions that controlled life and death.

Research is about the unknown. There are no answers in the back of the textbook, for there is no textbook