Wadler's Blog

Two videos of the Informatics Burns night. Thanks to Steve Ewing for the oration, and to Andrew Mitchell for the videos.

By Phil Agre. Sensible advice, crafted by someone who knows. Thanks to my colleague Conrad Hughes for pointing this out.

Three references I've found useful on Climategate: George Monbiot: Pretending the climate email leak isn't a crisis won't make i...

Cal Newport, a post-doc at MIT who writes the blog Study Hacks, has an interesting method of getting important work done. He calls it "...

Tony Karom, quoted by JfJfP: In a country occupied by a Western power, the locals are faced with a choice. Some have opted to reconcile thei...

This week was declared Computer Science Education Week by the US Congress. I heard when the declaration was made a couple of months ago, bu...

The recent Ben Goldacre case and ongoing Simon Singh case show that Enlish libel laws threaten the free and public conduct of science. Se...

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.