http://www.sububi.org Matt Jadud, writing stuff Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:59:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Although written up some time ago, I hesitated sharing my reflections on Junior Seminar from the Spring 2009 semester. It was a challenging semester for a variety of reasons: a very small enrollment coupled with a lack of good communication between the conveners meant that the student experience was inconsistent ... http://www.sububi.org/2009/06/30/reflections-on-junior-seminar-spring-2009/ The MDI AirCar prototype is a toy I want. (Full article at Edmunds.com.) It runs on compressed air. If you have a renewable source for compressing the air (eg. hydro or wind turbines), it is a truly zero-emission vehicle. It has a 180cc, two-cylinder engine that runs on compressed air. You can see ... http://www.sububi.org/2009/06/29/want-aircar/ For the next three weeks, I have to friends and colleagues here in town. We're busy hacking away, laying some foundations for the "next steps" in the work that we do surrounding concurrent and parallel programming languages. It does mean that we have a very full house, but on the flip ... http://www.sububi.org/2009/06/28/hacking/ Twenty years ago, CNC machining was a black art. CAD-driven solutions were expensive, and program-at-the-machine was just becoming available. My first experiences with this technology were with my father's 1986 Hitachi Seiki CNC lathe with Fanuc 5T control. It had a punched tape reader, and editing (once a program was ... http://www.sububi.org/2009/06/06/manufacturing-for-the-little-guy/ OLPC Startup 5 Easy Steps View more OpenOffice presentations from gueste596c5. Very insightful. http://www.sububi.org/2009/06/05/deploying-laptops/ In two weeks, I'll be giving a talk (along with Christian Jacbosen) at USENIX '09 entitled Towards Designing Usable Languages. We're excited about the talk, and it should be very, very exciting. I believe the talk will be on-line when we're done, so I'll make sure to point to it. If ... http://www.sububi.org/2009/06/05/invited-talk/ Friends of ours were heading through from upstate New York through to the Cleveland area. Erie, as it happens, is right on I90, and there are plenty of tasty places for a quick bite in such situations. So, we scooted up with Matthew and had a wonderful little lunch at ... http://www.sububi.org/2009/05/23/babies-on-the-road/ During the Spring 2009 semester (my second semester at Allegheny College), I had the opportunity to teach Programming Languages. If there is something in the canon of computer science that I love, it is languages. Or, perhaps I just like writing compilers and VMs. Either way, I was excited to ... http://www.sububi.org/2009/04/21/reflections-on-programming-languages-sp2009/ I'm a day late. As we enter the fifth day of Matthew's life outside the womb, I'm finding I do not have the time to craft a particularly eloquent essay on the topic of women and computing—Carrie and I spent the majority of the last night awake, and we both have ... http://www.sububi.org/2009/03/25/ada-lovelace-day/ http://www.jadud.com/matthew_john/ Matthew came home today. This is trickier than I thought it would be. http://www.sububi.org/2009/03/23/matthew-john/