Thursday, December 15, 2022

Video recording of my Skolem Lecture on The Birth of Binary

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 A video recording of my Skolem Lecture in Oslo on the Birth of Binary is now available here . The Birth of Binary: Leibniz and the Origins...
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Tuesday, December 13, 2022

Voter Suppression, Harvard-Style

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(This piece is jointly authored by Harry Lewis and Bill Gasarch, who is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Maryland at Colle...
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Monday, November 28, 2022

Skolem Lecture on "The Birth of Binary" – 8 December 2022

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Following publication of my edition, with Lloyd Strickland, of Leibniz's writings on binary arithmetic , I'll be giving the annual T...
Friday, November 18, 2022

Virtue signaling, at the Kennedy School and elsewhere

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The imperative to show our commitment to redress social injustices, even if it means overshooting the mark, takes Harvard to positions that ...
Thursday, November 3, 2022

Harvard Alumni: Sign Harvey Silverglate's petition to get on the ballot for the Overseers

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 Noted civil libertarian and free speech advocate Harvey Silverglate is trying to be elected to the Harvard Board of Overseers. I know Harve...
Friday, October 21, 2022

Upcoming lectures on two recent books

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I’ll be a keynote speaker at the   IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment and Learning for Engineering (TALE)   in December. ...
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Wednesday, October 19, 2022

An early Harvard report on women's athletics

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 Harvard took over responsibility for women's athletics in 1974. Until then, such teams as existed were administered by Radcliffe Colleg...