Microsoft'sbig role on campus : Donations fund research, build long-term connections

Such concerns about donations have been raised in fields of study as diverse as auto engineering and medicine, but Microsoft‘sdonations are a special case. Because students are likely to keep using the technology after graduation, they help to maintain Microsoft‘ssoftware industry dominance. — Ariana Eunjung Cha —Microsoft‘sbig role on campus : Donations fund research, build…

Shuttle [Columbia] Report Blames NASA Culture

NASA mission managers fell into the habit of accepting as normal some flaws in the shuttle system and tended to ignore or not recognize that these problems could foreshadow catastrophe. This was an “echo” of some root causes of the Challenger accident, the board said. —Shuttle [Columbia] Report Blames NASA Culture (MSNBC) This suggestion comes from…

Roaming in Thought [after reading Rorty]

Witty, ironizing Rorty, Fought he metaphysics grey. Joshing gently with the haughty, He commended Dewey’s way; Dewey who – he too the sort he (Rorty) wrought a giant from – Redescribed the true, for taught he Pragmatism with aplomb. —Roaming in Thought [after reading Rorty] (Normblog) A selection from a larger poem (by an undisclosed author)…