Tracking the energy performance of green schools
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As we enter into a new era of green building, it is becoming increasingly important to ensure that the certified buildings are performing as expected.
The Singularity
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Imagine that a team of scientists has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) with capabilities unfathomably far beyond the human mind. As soon as this AI is allowed to interact with the world, everything changes....
Time’s arrow: William Herschel
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William Herschel did not begin his career as a professional scientist. For the first several decades of his life astronomy was just a hobby. His career was in music. Born to an oboist in...
The string’s the thing
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Last week's Dream Big conference featured a number of events aimed at a general audience, but one was definitely for the physics in-crowd. On March 11, Andrew Frey, assistant professor of physics at the...
Dream Big
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Campus will be bustling this week with lectures, demonstrations, and exhibitions for Dream Big, a series of events that brings together major figures in space and space exploration as well as local experts from...
<strong>CS Women</strong>
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The Computer Science Students' Association (CSSA) has announced that they will be sending two teams to the 2014 Computer Science (CS) Games, one of which will be the first-ever all-women's team to attend the...
Free software and ethical consumption
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In September 1983, the GNU Project was born. GNU was to be a new kind of operating system: the first one with an explicit ethical goal.
Perhaps a little background is needed. GNU stands for...
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