I  have always loved working with military people. Their training firmly builds within them a “can do” mentality and a fixation on mission objectives.

These days, my memory isn’t what it used to be. Besides that, my memory isn’t what it used to be. But my incurable case of CRS (can’t remember stuff) is not nearly as bad as that of the exponential distribution.

Not knowing the answer to the question posed in the title of this article has led many medical device manufacturers to undertake expensive and unnecessary retesting of their previously certified products.

More than 25 years ago, an abandoned NASA spacecraft fulfilled its mission, fell silent, and has since been hurtling around the sun, somewhere between the orbits of Earth and Mars. Now, a University of Arizona engineering student is trying to wake it up.

I’ve been following the panting exuberance of big data apostles for the past few years, rolling my eyes at most of it. Sure, it can be interesting, but maybe my age is showing when I say, “So what?” to most of it.