Back in the fall of 1989, I was a freshman at Williams College, and one Monday night that fall there was some sort of problem with the cable TV in our dorm, so a bunch of us went next door to watch ...

Model: This is some type of representation (conceptual, mathematical, physical, computational) of a real object. Example: a model of a bouncing ball would produce results that agree with a real ...

Researchers have carried out detailed molecular dynamics simulations to understand the motion of intriguingly ball-shaped C60 bucky balls on metal surfaces. The shape suggests several interesting ...

The list of informal, weird AI benchmarks keeps growing. Well, simulating a bouncing ball is a classic programming challenge. Accurate simulations incorporate collision detection algorithms, which try ...

I admit it, I love my job(s). I love doing science, and I love reporting science. In particular, I love it when my expectations are confounded, as they recently were in a paper I read. In this ...

Makers, developers and Arduino enthusiasts may be interested in a new Arduino project created by Reddit, maker “tkuhn” who has decided to create a machine with the sole goal of “keeping a ping pong ...

September of last year brought the news that the men’s and women’s professional tennis tours are considering changes to speed up the game, such as no-ad scoring, tiebreakers instead of third sets and ...

[T-Kuhn]’s Octo-Bouncer platform has learned some new tricks since we saw it last. If you haven’t seen it before, this device uses computer vision from a camera mounted underneath its thick, clear ...