The influence of Apple under the guidance of Steve Jobs, both on the computer world and on the way we view design today is, without exaggeration, monumental. The man whose name came to be epitomised with the Apple brand, was responsible for a primary change in thinking of the way we interact with computer devices.

In their spare time, many engineers and biologists enjoy writing philosophical letters to editors of scientific journals, claiming that the age of collaboration and multidisciplinary research is upon us, even though we’ve been hearing this for much of the past 20 years.

Stepping in University as a first year student is somewhat challenging. This feeling is exacerbated if you are a girl entering Computer Engineering,a field which, almost by definition, has a predominantly (surprise!) male student population.

“Science”, said Dawkins, “is fun, in the sense that it is the very opposite of boring.” Science sans sensationalisation has a stark beauty that requires patience and perspective to appreciate, not entirely unlike a symphony or a sculpture.

Back in the 1950’s, using a computer meant typing commands into a terminal, a machine which would route your requests to another, bigger machine, called the mainframe. The mainframe is the machine that processes requests from all terminals. We’ve mostly moved away from this model, but a new one, cloud computing, seems to be gaining popularity.

Journalists must get creative when covering science. The common theatrics of balancing two sides of an issue along with a hint of hype just won’t do.