Kris Jordan

Computer Science has a tendency to spin in circles. Paradigms are like the ocean tide. What started with mainframes went to distributed terminals. Then distributed terminals became personal computers. Then PCs became smart clients and powerful PCs servers. Finally, the internet and the web browser transform our PCs into thin, […]

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Newton once said “If I have seen further it is by standing on ye shoulders of Giants.”
I noticed on Brown’s home page that a professor of Computer Science, Stan Zdonik, was recognized as an ACM Fellow.
This sent me crawling through the ACM pages regarding fellows and then onward to ACM Turing Award Recipient’s such as […]

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I’ve finally taken the plunge and installed an open source weblog content management system on the server. Wordpress is the package of choice.
There’s something to be said for having a database backed content management system. This may be a bit fancier than I need but as I don’t have time to write one […]

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Inspired by Justin Timberlake.

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