Technology
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Is the Internet Made of Blue Cheese?
It’s often the simple questions that baffle us the most. For a society entrenched in technology, it seems silly to even entertain the question of...
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Copyright.
The copyright debate has become one of the foremost policy tangles of our time. What used to be an arcane legal matter has grown into...
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Map of Submarine Cables
This map shows the underwater cables that are used to transport telephone communications and Internet data between all continents (except Antarctica). Explore the interactive map...
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Pulling the Plug
What do you think when someone mentions the word “brain”? The word “internet”? The word “job hunting”? Connections. Throughout human progress, connections have been some...
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Self-Teaching a Love of STEM
Christopher Mitchell is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Computer Science at NYU. Within the community of calculator programmers, he is a renowned afficionado. He recently...
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The Future of Wearable Gadgets
Tablets and smartphones are everywhere. It is hard not to be linked to your email 24/7 if you own an iPhone, a BlackBerry, or an...
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Microprocessors: Intel vs. ARM
Looking at an average McGill classroom, it seems that we are living in an age of paper cup coffee and shiny logo laptops. Mobility is...
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HTML Matures Again
In the 1980’s when people began thinking about making the Internet more accessible Apple Corporation launched a product called HyperCard in 1987 that popularized words...
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McGill Energy Dashboard – Energy Consumption in the Trottier Building
McGill’s Energy Dashboard displays graphs of how much energy is consumed in buildings all over campus. Here, we show the consumption of electricity in the...
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In Praise of Resonators
Resonators, as the name suggests, are devices that display the property of resonance. They oscillate at their natural frequencies at which the amplitudes are much...
