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


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

The first time I saw the PhDComics strip, I knew the artist must have been a Ph.D. student, because only someone who has experienced graduate school and faculty life, particularly in a technical discipline, could have that much insight regarding the joy and misery of graduate student life and the trials and foibles of faculty…