

Back-cover feature of the Spring 2013 issue of ENGineer magazine.

The editorial "Will MOOCs destroy academia?", by Moshe Vardi, appeared in the November 2012 issue of the Communications of the ACM. This is my reaction to that editorial, written at the time the editorial appeared online, with the intention of leaving a comment to it. The comment grew too long, and thus I decided to... Continue »

Vorticity field in the wake behind a snake cross-section at a Reynolds number of 2000 and 35-degrees angle of attack.

PhD student Christopher Cooper presenting in the "CUDA Research Fast Forward" event at the NVIDIA booth in the SC'11 conference.

Background The Boston University Center for Excellence and Innovation in Teaching (CEIT) offers a rich program of Teaching Talks (focused on pedagogy) and Teaching Tech Talks (focused on technology use). The Spring 2013 program included talks on course design, using learning management systems, group work in the classroom, etc. I was invited to host a CEIT... Continue »

"Reproducibility PI Manifesto" is a pledge by Prof. Barba to lead her group with a consistent reproducibility policy.