News

News

GSA Candidate Interviews

By
Ashley GabouryMorgan Modjeski
GSA presidential candidate: Dewa Mangal The Manitoban: Why are you running for this position and what experience do you bring? Dewa Mangal: I have some leadership skills and work experience in the field and I also...
News

That’s too big!

By
Leif Larsen
Arabic numerals, which are what we here in Canada and the scientific community at large use to represent numbers, were a huge advancement over the roman numerals they replaced. Need proof? Try doing long...
News

Sudoku: behind the scenes

By
Leif Larsen
Upon meeting Will Gibson (Doctor Octagon) the creator of the Manitoban’s sudoku puzzles, two things are abundantly clear: this man knows his computers and he knows his sudoku. For those not familiar with the...
News

Browsing for web browsers

By
Leif Larsen
Back when I was a kid, there were only two kinds of peanut butter on the shelf — chunky and smooth — a handful of ice cream flavors and fewer television channels than I...
News

Life after death

By
Damian Purdy
Whoa, you just died. Nice one. Only a moment ago, there you were — alive, lying in bed, in a clean, white room. Your family was standing all around you, vaguely bored. It looked...
News

Multi-touch screen will soon be obsolete

By
Jonathan Gaudet
How often have you wished that your coffee table doubled as a musical instrument? If your answer was “all the time,” I have good news for you: computer science graduate students at the U...
News

Sudoku: Behind the scenes

By
Leif Larsen
Upon meeting Will Gibson (Doctor Octagon) the creator of the Manitoban’s sudoku puzzles, two things are abundantly clear: this man knows his computers and he knows his sudoku. For those not familiar with the...

Popular

spot_img