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The Internet on Stage
This summer, I had the pleasure of seeing a remarkable dramatization of the Internet, including both its technical and social dimensions, focusing on the difficult…
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Sexual Promiscuity and Math (NY Times)
I had originally been planning to blog about the ownership of copyrights for the Unix operating system. But maybe no one else cares about that.…
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XKCD – a Math Comic/Blog for those not already in the know
While it’s anything but consistent (randomness abounds from comic to comic) you may want to check out XKCD – a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math…
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GAC Alum on Web2.0’s role in shaping Politics
Jon-David Schlough (GAC ’00) is one of the many GAC alums who I know that, while not a CS major, has gone on to work…
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MCS Folks Take Part in Community Coven
Our photographer couldn’t help notice that all species of folk associated with the Mathematics and Computer Science Department contributed to the St. Peter community’s Harry…
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Advice for Budapest Semesters in Mathematics
Back at the start of the semester, I linked to Betsy in Budapest, a blog maintained by one of our students while studying in the…
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Edwin A. Abbot’s Flatland – the Film(s)?
For those mcs students who have ever struggled with the idea of n-dimensional spaces, Edwin Abbot Abbot wrote an interesting novel regarding the evolution of…
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Gusties Take Gold for Statistics Project
As previously noted on this blog, Gustavus math majors Dan Johnson and Tyler Kramer were invited to the awards banquet at the US Conference on…
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Sign up for MCS Picnic
Those blog readers who are in St. Peter should pay a visit by this Thursday, May 10th, to the bulletin board in the third-floor lobby…
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Rosoff Wins Swenson/Bunn Teaching Award
The Gustavus Student Senate presented Professor of Mathematics Jeffrey Rosoff with the 2007 Swenson and Bunn Memorial Award for Teaching Excellence. This award, the only…
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