Wadler's Blog

A second entry, from Timothy Abraham. I have created this animal which represents a list, it's a snake whose tail consists of heads, in ...

An elegant animation by Pedro M Cruz. Spotted via Boing Boing.

A new Internet meme.

I mentioned to my first-year students that a list is an odd creature: it has only a head and a tail, where the tail is itself a creature wit...

The quest for the 3D-analogue of the Mandelbrot curve, with some remarkable photos. Passed on by my colleague Bob Fisher, who knew of my wo...

My favorite quote from Edsger Dijkstra comes from his Turing Award Lecture, The Humble Programmer: "In their capacity as a tool, comput...

A web app from the University of Utah, reminiscent of the Eames' Powers of 10 movie. It covers microscale but not macroscale. Any web ...

One output of WOWCS (the Workshop on Organizing Workshops, Conferences, and Symposia for Computer Systems) is a wiki to collect information...

Here is your chance to be a patron of the arts. Robin Sloan, the author of Mr. Penumbra (see earlier blog entry), is writing a book. Spons...

William Gibson stopped setting his novels in the future, saying that the present had caught up with science fiction. Another illustration i...