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Three quick notices of fine talks to attend at MIT over the next week: My colleagues Ta-Nehisi Coates and Seth Mnookin will be tag-teaming Mark McKinnon – yeah this Mark McKinnon – in just a little bit, 5 p.m. this afternoon. Ta-Nehisi will be conversing/interviewing McKinnon, and Seth will moderate in this latest in the MIT Communications Forum series of talks. It’ll be happening up [...]
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The fiscal year 2014 budget proposal for NASA is, as previously noted, fairly similar to the agency’s 2013 proposal, with the notable exceptions of the new asteroid initiative and changes to NASA’s education programs as part of the administration’s broader STEM education consolidation. That may be why the budget has, so far, not gotten a [...]
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Check out how the scientific community is reacting on social media to the president's budget
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Just days after NASA admininstrator Charles Bolden said that a NASA-led human return to the Moon would not take place “probably in my lifetime,” a group of mostly Republican members of the House introduced a bill that would require NASA to do just that, and within a decade. The “RE-asserting American Leadership in Space Act,” [...]
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On 11 April 2011, I wrote the first Computing: The Science of Nearly Everything blog post: Hello, World! (a fairly typical starting point for a computer scientist, I’m sure you’ll agree). My second year of blogging has been somewhat different from the first, especially now I appear to have developed a readership of sorts: 150 [...]
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Whether better "data" can ensure, or even contribute much to, good decision-making is itself an open question. Before we can even think about the decisions themselves, we need to deal with the expectations surrounding the data.
