The front page of the Seattle Times today featured an article on me (and some other people) in reference to employees leaving Microsoft to go to Google. After three internships at Microsoft and a two year stint as a Microsoft campus representative, why didn’t I go to Microsoft? I went to Penn’s career fair yesterday [...]

I think I shall coin a new term: “Googlage.” A ‘Googlage’ is a Google query term that leads you to a particular website. To be reasonably called a ‘Googlage,’ the page in question should be listed on the first page of results. From there, you have Level 1, 2, … Googlages, which refer to the [...]

Inevitably, I find myself involved in discussions about what makes a good Computer Science curriculum, and there tend to be differing opinions as to whether a more theoretical curriculum or a more practical curriculum is better. My university, The University of Pennsylvania, leaned very heavily to the theoretical side. Out of the 15 requires computer [...]