In just under a week, we will officially launch a new major, in Data Science, at Luther College. I've spent a pretty good part of my summer preparing the first two classes of that major, and as I look back on it its been an interesting experience.

Data Science is …

Since Luther announced that it will offer a new major in Data Science starting next fall, I’ve been answering a lot of questions. What is data science? What does one do with a data science major? What does a data scientist do? Why study data science at Luther? These …

I've just finished teaching a seven week course called Fundamentals of Web Development. Its an introductory course for potential CS majors and non-majors alike. I enjoyed teaching this course, but I learned something that I think has been right in front of me for years, that became very apparent with …

I just wanted to include a link here to my latest post on Luther's Ideas and Creations blog. Its just some thoughts and questions I had on MOOCs and online education at Luther College. Why Moocs? Why Not?

We had a small mishap this morning. A fork bomb that was meant for a virtual machine accidentally got pasted into a terminal window open to our server. Now I'm having an identity crisis.

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