Technology

Wiseguy Don Holmberg caught up with me after my final lecture in Statistical Methods last night to tell me about the Class Pad 300, darn near a pocket version of Mathematica. Street price is about $138, and I could do multiple integrals and solve nonlinear equations anywhere! Thanks, Don. Read more

This morning after our ride, my cycling buddy Jaime put me hip to Linear solver, THE online tool for when you absolutely, postively need to solve a system of linear equations right now. Check it out. Read more

Sometimes low tech is best. Our ad hoc committee had to sort out course offerings for the next 3 years in our department, and we needed a good visual aid. We could have used a laptop, Excel, and a video projector, or this: Read more