The MIT Mystery Hunt starts this Friday at noon, and I’ll be participating seriously for about my 10th year. In the hunt, teams solve a collection of puzzles to discover the location of a gold coin hidden somewhere on campus. The puzzles may be numerous (sometimes over 100), are generally provided without instructions (except when […]

Went to a talk at MIT tonight, by Stephen C Johnson, a researcher at The Mathworks. The talk was sponsored by the Greater Boston ACM. The paper, Algorithms for the 21st Century, was presented at Usenix 2006. The general thrust was how computer architecture has drifted from the idealized model used in most algorithms classes, […]