With the advent of the internet, people can find a partner on the other side of the globe with a click of a button and can have an entire romance online. Interest and rejection are conveyed nearly instantaneously, and with the addition of smart phones to their technological arsenal, people can constantly check their profile views and messages on the ... Read More »
Over the past two years, iSchool Ph.D. student Mike Lee has been working on Gidget, a game designed to teach computer programming concepts to kids and teens through debugging puzzles. Gidget is now available for anyone to play at www.helpgidget.com. Give it a try! The game takes a very different approach than existing learning technologies for programming. Rather than trying to motivate kids through creativity (as ... Read More »
During the last presidential election, the Washington Post was working on implementing an automatic real-time fact-checking system for political speeches. Stories about this have a sort of breathless, world-of-tomorrow kind of feel to them (“a Shazam for truth,” as an executive producer from the Post calls it), though tinged with serious questions about the technology, the approach, the relevance, and the challenges. Verifying the ... Read More »
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