Associate Professor of Computing & Innovation @OlinCollege. Co-inventor of @Scratch, Modkit, @unruly_studios. Part of the team that made Fab Lab #1 many others.
Joined November 2009
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2 Aug 2023
This may be cool power storage tech, but the marketing team will need to be creative to convince people to live inside a battery (especially those who live where lightning storms happen all the time). science.org/content/article/…
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24 May 2023
She created a filter that helps you get a perfect middle part 🤯 AND she’s working on a braid parting filter too??!! I love women in stem!!!!
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14 Mar 2023
It's a good time for anyone with a smartphone to have converse about the amount of image processing it would take for them to consider an image they shot to be more fake than real. This discussion about the moon photos is a good read to set up such convos theverge.com/2023/3/13/23637…
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3 Mar 2023
I think that this organoid intelligence thing is probably the start of what leads to the old school video game villain Mother Brain (from Metroid) amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/03/02/w…
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21 Feb 2023
I am glad to see that people are taking interest in MicroBlocks. cnx-software.com/2023/01/30/…
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19 Feb 2023
You may hear about search engines incorporating AI tools such as chatGPT. Those moves are likely to increase the need for computation & storage. Accordingly, the energy used to make the improved tools effective will require a larger energy/carbon footprint wired.com/story/the-generati…
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9 Feb 2023
Google demoed a new (Bard) to rival ChatGPT. It didn't get facts straight in one of its responses. If there was a heckler in the crowd who wanted to shout "liar, liar, pants on fire!", what would one say to pantless computers? Liar, liar, chips on fire!? cnn.com/2023/02/08/tech/goog…
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7 Feb 2023
It's great to see the fruits of the Work It Out Wombats crew kicking off their PBS Kids show! The team I'm on that's launching Lyla In the Loop got to engage with several Wombats folks while developing computing frameworks to be used across several shows pbs.org/about/about-pbs/blog…
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7 Feb 2023
There are great minds behind this new PBS Kids show. I know that it is going to hit the ground running. inquirer.com/entertainment/c…
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15 Jan 2023
ChatGPT is a two-way street. If a student submits an assignment to you written exclusively by ChatGPT, then you may use ChatGPT to auto generate any letter of recommendation they ask for. 😜
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6 Jan 2023
This is a useful map and video for young people who may want to explore engineering, but aren't sure what is involved with each discipline. openculture.com/2023/01/the-… via @openculture
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5 Jan 2023
Had I come across this LOL verifier earlier, I would have been tempted to secret Santa it to everyone on my work-related Slack channels. 2023 might just be the year of accountability for those non true laugh-out-louders out there. Technology is coming for you.
3 Jan 2023
I made this thing called LOL Verifier: a device that only lets you type lol if you’ve actually laughed out loud
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3 Dec 2022
I am just putting this Google Doodle about Jerry Lawson out there for those who did not get to interact with it when it was on the main google site. It is everything. Click.Play.Share.Repeat. google.com/doodles/gerald-je…
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28 Oct 2022
This is an art installation that is so powerful that I'd like to make time to see it. Art engineering history. news.artnet.com/art-world/ch…
22 Oct 2022
I support people who rethink how everyone can benefit from scientific research, especially those who call out gatekeeping practices that could be reconsidered with technology of today in mind science.org/content/article/…
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14 Oct 2022
I used to watch Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as a child. This article about a lab-grown brain playing video games made me imagine playing Pong against Krang bbc.com/news/science-environ…
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11 Oct 2022
Olin extends its footprint with the "Mirror," as we partner with @kendallnow and HBCUs, expanding what’s possible for the young people and industries of #CambridgeMA. olin.edu/articles/olin-exten… @admillner
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29 Sep 2022
I respect how some scientists sat down and said "why not make a battery that is built into paper and activated by water?" Keep it up. We need novel approaches to powering devices with batteries. scitechdaily.com/a-new-dispo…
19 Aug 2022
Reading abt airbnb's "anti-party tech" was interesting from an algorithm standpoint. It also made me recall a unique way a bar tried to keep certain people out of its parties. A sign by the door straight up said "no Fubu" (not "no shirt/shoes no service") cnn.com/2022/08/17/tech/airb…
29 Jul 2022
I must say that thinking to use spider carcasses as robot arms is innovative and a lil bit icky at the same time. In the future, check your Amazon packages for lil legs. Rice University engineers reanimate dead spiders as robot gripping claws. theverge.com/2022/7/28/23282… via @Verge