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Eugene Barsky is a Science and Engineering Librarian at the University of British Columbia and is a liaison for: * Computer Science * Engineering Physics * Integrated Science * Mathematics * Mining Engineering * Pulp and Paper * Science One * Statistics * Wood Science
By Eugene Barsky on March 12, 2014
ON THIS date in 1989 Tim Berners-Lee, a British physicist working at CERN, Europe’s particle physics laboratory, wrote a memo to his boss modestly entitled “Information Management: A Proposal”. Mr Berners-Lee proposed to develop a way to share information over a computer network. “A ‘web’ of notes with links (like references) between them is far […]
By Eugene Barsky on December 13, 2013
From today’s NYT: Yuri Milner, the Russian entrepreneur, philanthropist and self-described “failed physicist” who made a splash two years ago when he began handing out lavish cash awards to scientists, announced Thursday that he was expanding the universe of his largess again: This time, he will begin handing out $3 million awards to mathematicians. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/14/science/3-million-prizes-to-go-to-mathematicians.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0
By Eugene Barsky on November 25, 2013
Three UBC researchers have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Three UBC ecologists who study the natural world at very different scales–from marine ecosystems, to plant and soil systems, to microbial communities–have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). AAAS is the world’s largest […]
By Eugene Barsky on October 15, 2013
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) was born when an international conference in Washington, DC, decided “to adopt the meridian passing through the center of the transit instrument at the Observatory of Greenwich as the initial meridian for longitude.” From our MAA friends.
By Eugene Barsky on October 11, 2013
Today back in 1887, patent #371,496 issued for the “comptometer,” the first adding machine “absolutely accurate at all times.” It was invented by Dorr Eugene Felt of Chicago; a model was constructed in 1884. From MAA – On This Day in Math
By Eugene Barsky on September 10, 2013
Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator switched on at CERN near Geneva, Switzerland.
By Eugene Barsky on September 9, 2013
First computer “bug,” an actual moth caught in the machinery of the Harvard Mark II computer, logged at 15:45 hours. More information about: The First Computer Bug Harvard Mark II ** From MAA math blog
By Eugene Barsky on August 29, 2013
In 1831 – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday%27s_law_of_induction (From MAA blogs)
By Eugene Barsky on August 27, 2013
From Michael White’s blog – http://patentlibrarian.blogspot.ca/2013/08/uspto-adopts-pdf-for-patent-documents.html The USPTO has adopted PDF as the default format for displaying patent documents from its databases, making it one of the last (if not last) of the major patent offices to switch to the world’s most popular document image format. Since 1998, viewing US patent documents obtained from the […]
By Eugene Barsky on August 7, 2013
The UBC Faculty of Applied Science and CMC Microsystems have opened an innovative new microsystems research lab called the Adaptive Microsystems Laboratory, or “AdaMist”. The facility is now part of the nation-wide Embedded Systems Canada (emSYSCAN) initiative. emSYSCAN is a five-year project worth over $50 million, and involves more than 350 university researchers spread across […]