OLPC

I hope it doesn’t sound silly, but I’d really like to get my hands on an OLPC laptop. Why? I don’t know. The OLPC is a Big Idea made real, and I’d really like to be able to experiment (play) with the machine the OLPC group has created. I hope that “mere humans” and not just . . . → Read More: OLPC

A small matter of icons

At the University of Kent I run a series of workshops (along with Christian Jacobsen) called Cool Stuff in Computer Science. These workshops introduce students to… well, cool stuff. Generally, in computer science. As the year progresses, we let their interests drive the workshops. In the beginning, however, we pick things we think will be [...] . . . → Read More: A small matter of icons