About this Blog
Welcome to my blog!
The popular news sites and blogs are full of computer industry news, product announcements, reviews, business analysis, rumors, legal battles, and scandals. And the geek sites abound in “how-to” knowledge—programming, configuring, and hacking. All this is good stuff.
However, there is an almost parallel universe out there that is remote from our everyday computers and favorite websites. This is the world of computer science research and innovation. It originates in academic and industry research centers, in esoteric institutes and think tanks, and from the workstations of lone prodigies (the “alpha geeks”). It is a world of truly fascinating ideas and glimpses of our future.
But the results are largely hidden in stuffy and incomprehensible academic papers and textbooks. And when journalists report breakthroughs in the popular press, they tend to merely paraphrase the jargon and often make little effort to explain the ideas, place them in context, or convey their significance.
That’s why I started this blog. My goal is to write about interesting new developments in computer science in a way that is neither academic nor superficial. I hope to write articles that are friendly, tutorial, insightful, predictive, useful, and entertaining—but primarily, articles that capture the fascination of the exciting ideas emerging from the computing research labs and supercomputing centers.
I welcome your ideas and feedback on these articles. Although I currently have comments turned off, you can reach me through my contact form. (I might turn on comments in the future as more visitors come to the blog and raise the signal-to-noise ratio—that is, the ratio of true comments to comment spam!)
I hope these articles will inform, inspire, and entertain, and I look forward to hearing from you!
Michael J. Young
www.mjyOnline.com
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