Scott Dewing
Jefferson Journal ContributorScott Dewing is a technologist, teacher, and writer. He writes the technology focused column "Inside the Box" for the Jefferson Journal. Scott lives on a low-tech farm in the State of Jefferson. He was born in the same year the Internet was invented and three days before men first landed on the moon. Scott says this doesn't make him special--just old.
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For the most part, we go about our daily lives unaware that we are information storage devices. We store all sorts of information in our brains. Some of… -
Once upon a time, about a 1,000 years ago in Internet years, people who wanted to use a computer had to invest some time into learning the fundamentals.… -
All the big tech companies (and at least one U.S. government agency with the acronym NSA) are in a race to be the first to capture computing’s Holy… -
I’ve been writing about technology for just over a decade now. I’ve worked in the field of information technology for twice as long as that now and, most… -
Here are some things that I learned on the Internet recently: A Boston-area Catholic priest, John Michael O’Neal, suffered a massive heart attack and was… -
A “bit” is the smallest unit of digital information. Put 8 bits together and you get a “byte”. Amass a billion bytes and you have a “gigabyte”. A thousand… -
“Britney Spears InstagramsSelfie With New Boyfriend”That was the headline that caught my eye recently while scrolling through my Twitter feed. No, I’m not… -
According to the RAND Corporation, a nonprofit research and analysis think-tank that claims to have “invented the Postwar World,” the year 2015 is going… -
After some debate, the inventors of Deep Thought come up with a question that they believe embodies all those questions and feed it into Deep Thought for… -
“Deep learning is a set of algorithms in machine learning that attempt to model high-level abstractions in data by using model architectures composed of… -
One of my favorite scenes from the sci-fi movie The Matrix Reloaded, is when the protagonist, Neo, accompanies CouncillorHamann down into the engineering… -
If underwater crustaceans were superheroes, the mantis shrimp would most certainly be one. Mantis shrimp live in shallow tropical and sub-tropical waters.…
