by David Brooks | Nov 22, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
On November 21, five new remote weather monitoring stations went live along the Mount Washington Cog Railway, on the western side of New England’s highest peak. The expansion of the Mount Washington Regional Mesonet (MWRM) kicks off an extensive expansion to enhance...
by David Brooks | Nov 22, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
Update: Ars Technica has a good article about this research: “Ancient fish-trapping network supported the rise of Maya civilization. The Maya were landscape engineers on a grand scale, even when it came to fishing.” UNH News: An archaeologist from the...
by David Brooks | Nov 21, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
New Hampshire regulators have left in place the state’s net metering program, which pays owners of solar panels when they send power to the grid, but a looming expiration date could make financing more difficult. The order from the Public Utilities...
by David Brooks | Nov 18, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
It’s hard to remember now, but in the Good Old Days – the decade through my teenage years, which is everybody’s definition of Good Old Days – the typewriter was just about the most interesting piece of technology in people’s homes. Whether manual or electric, the...
by David Brooks | Nov 18, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
Dartmouth College has a new class called Critical AI that looks at the history and sociocultural impacts of the technologies known as artificial intelligence. Dartmouth News story is here. The Department of English and Creative Writing class is being taught this fall...
by David Brooks | Nov 16, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
Thomas Kurtz, the Dartmouth professor who co-created BASIC and DTSS with John Kemeny, helping launch the whole idea of computing and networks, has died. He was 96. Dartmouth News has a long remembrance with some historic photos. I interviewed Kurtz via email in 2018...