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Jules Verne – A Window on the Industrial Revolution

In high school English, back in 1981, for my first real “term paper” assignment, I chose to research the early history of science fiction.  Of course, being who I am, this meant not only reading about the various authors and reviews of their works, but

The Epistemology of Programming

Computer programming is an activity that lies at the intersection of epistemology and engineering.  The process of reducing a desired set of actions by a computer to the rigid set of instructions that can be directly executed by physical hardware requires a clarity of expression

No Time to Think: The Moment of Inspiration

I have struggled to connect the moments at which I have time to write with the moments in which relevant ideas occur to me to write about.  Earlier this evening, while writing an email and making an approximation to that statement, I had a moment