A candid conversation with Lynn Stein about developing the semantic web, being one of Olin’s founding faculty members, and what it means to work with college students.
Olin’s professor of computer and cognitive science, Lynn Stein teaches Human Factors in Interface Design (HFID), Fundamentals of Computer Science (FOCS), and Artificial Intelligence (AI), among other classes. She has acclaim as a researcher, teacher, leader, and women’s advocate, and was one of Olin’s founding faculty members.
3/1 Eight South African policemen arrested on suspicion of murder after dragging a man behind their police van.
3/2 Following the sentencing of Abdul Quader Mollah to life imprisonment for committing genocide and crimes against humanity during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War, over 50 die in protests demanding his execution.
3/3 A female 2-year-old in Mississippi born with the HIV/ AIDS declared HIV negative following treatment.
3/4 At least nineteen people killed in attacks by gangs during the Kenyan presidential election in Kilifi and the outskirts of Mombas.
How Not To ________ (verb) Up a Meeting
Aries (March 21 – April 19): If you were a vegetable, you’d be a brussel sprout. Layered and hearty, but often overlooked and over-cooked.
Taurus (April 20 – June 20): Life is a bin. It’s up to you to choose whether it’s for trash or recylables.
Gemini (July 22 – May 21): Whew, it’s getting hot. Don’t fly too close to the sun, Icarus, or you’ll melt your wings clean off. Stick to the shade and chill the hell out.
Imagine you have n points evenly spaced around a circle. Choose one of these as the starting point, p0. Take a pen and draw a line skipping m – 1 points so that you connect p0 to pm.
Continue doing this without lifting the pen (so next you connect pm to the point m points later, and so on). Eventually you get back where you started.
Perhaps you have drawn an n-pointed star (the classic way of drawing a 5 pointed start is with n = 5 and m = 2).
Why can you never get a six pointed start this way? What other values of n will never result in a star?
I’m graduating soon, but I have a crush on an underclassman. Should I go for it?
—Waffling Wendy
At this point in the year, you have at most seven weeks before you leave Olin. That does not mean you cannot start a new relationship, but it does mean you need to go into any potential relationship being very honest and clear about what happens after you graduate. Is this a short fling? Would you try to keep it going long-distance? Discuss those issues with your crush and decide together whether to go for it or keep it merely friendly.
—Duchess of Deportment
Let me get one thing straight: I do not consider myself a creative person. This, coming from the guy who gets the phone passed to him to come up with engaging lesson plans for 5th graders or snazzy names for stuff. I do comics, have bucket lists of story ideas in progress; I have created 3 languages with respective worlds, have served as a writing consultant, and just do random sketches in general (from monsters to startups – yes you can sketch start-ups) which are utterly irrelevant to other people’s lives.
Last month’s Build Day article was credited to Trevor Hooton, but should also have been credited to his co-author Thomas Dugger.
In the Honor Code Rewrite article, Victoria Coleman was listed as pertaining to the Honor Code Rewrite Committee, but it should have been Victoria Preston.
The article “Useless Words from Kelsey’s Collection” included a definition for ‘trichotillomania’. The characterization under “useless words” was not intended to minimize the condition, and Frankly Speaking apologizes for any distress caused by this categorization.
