Tech Tip: Protect Yourself From New Hacking Tricks
• February 26, 2024

With most work involving tech, including business transactions, being done online now, it’s absolutely crucial to be aware of scams that plague email, websites and more every day. An important […]

Profs & Pints DC: AI’s Promise and Perils
• July 28, 2023

Profs and Pints DC presents: “AI’s Promise and Pitfalls,” a forward-looking discussion of how artificial intelligence can be directed to do good rather than harm, with Mary “Missy” Cummings, professor […]

YMCA’s ‘Thingamajig Invention Convention’ Brings Out Kids’ Creativity
• July 27, 2023

Next week, the YMCA’s “Thingamajig Invention Convention” will invite hundreds of children for an in-person, hands-on science fair and festival August 2 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Children can […]

Tech Tip: How to Turn Your Excel Sheets into Heat Maps
• June 5, 2023

From Computerware, Inc., My team and I are big fans of a good spreadsheet, just as a simple way of organizing and contextualizing your data. Therefore, we’re all for sharing […]

Profs & Pints DC: The Rise of Distant Doctors
• January 24, 2023

Profs and Pints DC presents: “The Rise of Distant Doctors,” on the emergence and evolution of remote healthcare, with Dr. Jeremy A. Greene, professor of medicine and director of the […]

Smithsonian Focuses on the Future with New Exhibit (photos)
• November 21, 2021

The Smithsonian’s Arts and Industries Building came back to life on Saturday Nov. 20 with “Futures,” an exhibition scheduled to run until July 6, 2022. It will be part of […]

Tech Tip: Excel Shortcuts You Can Use to be More Efficient
• September 27, 2021

Microsoft Excel is the premier spreadsheet software, but unless you know keyboard shortcuts and formulas, it can be tricky to get the most value out of it as a software […]

¡Printing the Revolution! Virtual Conversation Series: Creating in a Digital Sphere
• April 30, 2021

The digital realm defines a new chapter of Chicanx graphics. Artists use technologically based artwork to critique Big Tech, as well as distribute digital graphics across social media networks as […]

Profs & Pints: Innovation, from Stone to Silicon
• July 8, 2019

Profs and Pints presents: “Innovation, from Stone to Silicon,” a brief history, with Lawrence Husick, lecturer at Johns Hopkins University’s Whiting Graduate School of Engineering, chemist, patent attorney, hacker and […]

Profs & Pints: Dreams of Intelligent Machines
• December 31, 2018

Profs and Pints presents: “Dreams of Intelligent Machines,” with Colin Allen, philosopher of science and adjunct in the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition at the University of Pittsburgh. […]