Book Review: “Terrible Nerd”
1000-word article for Slashdot.
A review of the book by Kevin Savetz. (I liked it.)...
Control without Controllers
1500-word article for Association for Computing Machinery.
A feature article about Disney's Touché sensor project, which explores new ways of controlling electronics with touch....
The Future of Free Speech Online
300-word article for Association for Computing Machinery.
A very brief article about whether survey respondents believe that technology companies in the democratic West will increasingly help repressive governments....
Drupal in Context column: “What Three Decades of Publishing Programs Teaches Us”
1250-word article for Tag 1 Publishing.
A column for Issue #3 of "Drupal Watchdog", a print magazine distributed at DrupalCon Denver....
DARPA Shredder Challenge Solved
1500-word article for Association for Computing Machinery.
A feature article about a $50,000 challenge issued by DARPA and its solutions, including quotes from the First and Second Place winners....
Talking to Machines
2000-word article for Association for Computing Machinery.
A feature article about modern applications of speech recognition, in particular how they've combined with complementary technologies to produce such consumer products as Siri....
Cloud-based HPC
275-word article for Association for Computing Machinery.
A very brief article about a U.S. Government report on whether high-performance computing is cost-effective using cloud-computing techniques....
Managing the Demise of Privacy
750-word article for Association for Computing Machinery.
A news report on the Privacy Identity Innovation conference in Menlo Park, November 2011, which focused largely on how social media are changing the landscape…...
Supercomputing’s Exaflop Target
1700-word article for Association for Computing Machinery.
A review of Asia's recent ascendency in the Top500 list of the world's leading supercomputers, and the supercomputing field generally....
Drupal in Context column: “You are a Mobile Device”
1100-word article for Tag 1 Publishing.
A column for Issue #2 of "Drupal Watchdog", a print magazine distributed at DrupalCon London and later made available online....
The Promise of Flexible Displays
1700-word article for Association for Computing Machinery.
Article about advances in electronic displays that can bend, be made in irregular shapes, and be produced through a print-like process....
Drupal in Context column: “Getting Paid”
1300-word article for Tag 1 Publishing.
A column for Issue #1 of "Drupal Watchdog", a print magazine distributed at DrupalCon Chicago. (Content not available online.)...
IT drives policy — and vice versa
575-word article for Association for Computing Machinery.
Reporting on a three-day conference about technology policy. This was my biggest case of preparation overkill: 12,000 words of notes went into a 575-word article....
Shaping the Future
1200-word article for Association for Computing Machinery.
Article about "claytronics" -- ensembles of tiny robots that self-assemble into larger functional units....
Practice Makes Perfect, Even for Brain-Controlled Prosthetics
450-word article for Association for Computing Machinery.
Short, online-only news article about brain-machine interfaces -- or, as I call it, "MONKEYS CONTROLLING ROBOTS WITH THEIR BRAINS!!!"...
Rebuilding for Eternity
1250-word article for Association for Computing Machinery.
Article about "e-heritage", digitization of large-scale historical sites such as the Bayon Temple in Cambodia....
Top Ten Changes That Make Drupal 7 the Best Version Ever
2000-word article for Peachpit Press.
Article written for the publisher of my book, Drupal 7: Visual QuickStart Guide. I wrote it at a time when Drupal 7 seemed primed for…...
Beyond the Smart Grid
1300-word article for Association for Computing Machinery.
Feature story about sensors to monitor energy consumption and other environmental data in residences. (Published in Communications of the ACM.)...
ACM China Nearing Launch
600-word article for Association for Computing Machinery.
News story about the Association for Computing Machinery's expansion into China. (Published in Communications of the ACM.)...
Last CMS Standing: The Promise of Drupal Versus WordPress and Joomla
1550-word article for Peachpit Press.
This article compares the three CMSes in terms of user base, code maturity, richness of plug-ins, and business acceptance. Commissioned by Peachpit Press to support…...