I've become a bit of a masochist when it comes to math. I didn't used to be - in high school and as an undergrad I dealt with math because I needed to for what I wanted to do (engineering). I was always fairly good at it, or at least good enough to get to where I wanted, but I didn't see the intrinsic value in it. I think partly that's due to the ( Read more... )

Over on Embedded.com there's a rather amusing article that looks at a possible nightmare scenario should Congress decide that the software world needs a little more oversight to prevent bugs cropping up everywhere that can cause massive problems with things like air traffic control, financial transactions, personal security online, etc. While it's ( Read more... )

I can't remember anything in WPI's curriculum for debugging either. I did learn a bunch during some of EE labs (3801, etc.). But then, I already knew a bunch of that stuff already, so maybe I just slept through those lectures. It is funny, googling for the error message/stack trace is one of the first things I do when I run into something really

Should be read by everyone

UPDATE: On a slightly different note - here's a very interesting interview with Pat Galloway - the former president of the American Society of Civil Engineers (the first women to hold that post).