Science and productivity by Dr. Christine Corbett Moran
It may not yet be a widely known fact but computer chips have stopped getting faster. But what if the average user doesn’t need all that performance? If desktop chipmakers are going to stay afloat there’s got to be a huge market for chips which scream. So what’s going to drive the CPU market? Read More …
My Sunday afternoon recover-from-jetlag hack was creating http://www.phygg.com. Phygg is designed to help sort through physics papers and discussion topics related to arXiv.org in the style of digg.com, initially focusing on astrophysics. I’m going to be using phygg to track papers I find interesting, so feel free to follow the rss feed. In addition, I’m hoping to convince a few of my astrophysicist colleagues to join in on the posting and voting, so stay tuned. Read More …