Earlier today I was pondering the fact that I needed some new business cards when I had a sudden brain storm. A sort of a meta-recursive brainstorm, really. I could picture the design I wanted. But… read more >>

One summer when I was in high school I spent a lot of time playing ping-pong at a summer camp. Between games, I would watch this guy named Rob play Defender on a nearby console. Rob had godlike… read more >>

Have you tried ThingSpeak yet? It’s cool, it’s free, and it talks to MATLAB. I like all three of those things. Let me show you how it works.
ThingSpeak is called an “Internet of… read more >>

Last month we collaborated with Luke Rendell and Elena Miu of St Andrews University on a programming contest (hosted at CumulusContest.org). This contest was modeled on our old MATLAB programming… read more >>

As we move into 2017, lets take a look back at 2016.  Here are the most popular files on File Exchange in 2016 based on… read more >>

Some of you will remember a semi-annual programming contest that we ran here from 1999 to 2012. Some of you participated in it! Each contest ran for a week, and the contestants had to solve an… read more >>

Here is a place I want to visit.

Image credit: Jody Kingzett
It’s the new mathematics gallery (known as Mathematics: The Winton Gallery) at the Science Museum in London. See that Handley Page… read more >>

If you’re a Cody player, you’re familiar with the What Now? problem. That is, you’ve got a few minutes to play around with Cody, but you’re not sure what to tackle next…. read more >>

Until I deleted it this afternoon, the following tag appeared on one of the entries in the File Exchange: “can u plz send me the entire project report on my email address”. That’s… read more >>

Have you ever wondered about the relative popularity of a file you’re looking at in File Exchange? If so, we’ve recently added a new feature to File Exchange that’s meant for you. Beginning this… read more >>