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Sam Stokes writes about Research in a way that is accessibile by students in College or considering their College/University Career or someone who is a life long learner!

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Researching your queries and clicks
OMG, people tracking what I search and what I click on.  Isn’t that an invasion of my privacy?  I think that I should have the right to protect my privacy, but what is privacy on the Internet? On the other hand, how do others help me to protect Read More...

Posted Tuesday, July 21, 2009 8:36 AM by SoCal Sam | 0 Comments

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ESP: Extra-Sensory Perception or Embodied Social Proxies?
WTF? ESP? Satellite people? Is this a Coast to Coast show with George Noory for long haul truckers and insomniacs? No, Embodied Social Proxies , this isn’t a problem that my team suffers from, even though we rarely meet in person, none of us work together Read More...

Posted Thursday, July 09, 2009 8:51 PM by SoCal Sam | 0 Comments

Computer Archeology: The Smiley, where did it come from?
The Smiley, where did it come from?  Here is the first instance of the Smiley: 401298269,0,0 19-Sep-82 11:44 Scott E Fahlman :-) From: Scott E Fahlman <Fahlman at Cmu-20c> I propose that the following character sequence for joke markers: :-) Read More...

Posted Saturday, June 06, 2009 9:16 AM by SoCal Sam | 0 Comments

Towards programming languages for genetic engineering of living cells
Ok, still goofing off from my F# articles, but for now, one of my friends has a very bad cancer (not that any of them are good) called peritoneal carcinomatosis (PC), or PMP.  On my other blog about Silverlight Games , I am discussing how to make Read More...

Posted Monday, June 01, 2009 12:18 PM by SoCal Sam | 0 Comments

Student Research!
Zoom over to http://www.acm.org/src/ , take a  look at the student research that was supported by Microsoft Research.  This is different than the Imagine Cup, in that the ACM is oriented toward research.  If you a student, then you will Read More...

Posted Friday, May 22, 2009 9:13 PM by SoCal Sam | 0 Comments

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WTF#: Using F# to calculate Ballistics part 2
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Posted Monday, April 06, 2009 10:06 AM by SoCal Sam | 1 Comments

NASA chooses Microsoft to make space flight data more public
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Posted Wednesday, March 25, 2009 11:03 AM by SoCal Sam | 1 Comments

WTF: Orbital Mechanics/Celestial Mechanics, Newton and Kepler’s Laws
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Posted Wednesday, March 18, 2009 1:56 PM by SoCal Sam | 2 Comments

WTF#: F#, and the Mars Climate Orbiter (MCO) crash in 1998
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Posted Monday, March 09, 2009 1:41 PM by SoCal Sam | 1 Comments

WTF#: Syllabus for the rest of the students at a university, with a focus on Functional Programming
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Posted Saturday, February 21, 2009 11:29 AM by SoCal Sam | 0 Comments

F#: Re-Thinking the syllabus for training engineers and scientists in programming
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Posted Friday, February 20, 2009 10:44 AM by SoCal Sam | 2 Comments

Professors: Get No Cost software for your students
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Posted Tuesday, February 17, 2009 10:03 AM by SoCal Sam | 0 Comments

WTF#: Curriculum for F# part 1, thinking about curriculum for CS
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Posted Monday, February 16, 2009 12:56 PM by SoCal Sam | 0 Comments

F#, Imperative Languages and Identifiers
OMG! I got pulled off my usual job of doing a bunch of things and have been focused on getting students involved in the Imagine Cup Software Design Invitational in the United States. Then it was Christmas and I ate to many cookies, etc. Finally I ignored Read More...

Posted Monday, December 29, 2008 1:21 PM by SoCal Sam | 0 Comments

F# variables or a return to BASIC?
In the example I used in the past post utilized the "let" command and it didn't have any data type, what's up with that? Oh it gets worse, the identifier (not variable) are immutable. That is the memory location of the identifier cannot be modified. To Read More...

Posted Friday, December 05, 2008 4:42 PM by SoCal Sam | 1 Comments

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