Since May, our research group has been developing a new tool called Snowball. As with our other tools, the purpose of Snowball is to empower people from all sorts of backgrounds to express and create … Read more
You have two choices when it comes to formatting academic papers for conferences and journals: Microsoft Word and LaTeX. Word is familiar and easy for anyone to pick up. But the WYSIWYG interface that makes … Read more
In math, you’re sometimes so focused on getting the calculations right that you end up with nonsensical answers without realizing it. In web design there’s a similar phenomenon, where you’re so intent on pixel perfection … Read more
Right now we’re blessed with many, well, awesome icon fonts that continue to grow with every release, like Font Awesome, Glyphicons, and Ionicons. And game-changers like Iconic might be just around the bend. But searching … Read more
We’ve all run into CAPTCHAs, those annoying registration fields you never get right on the first try. But CAPTCHAs do play a valuable role, keeping spambots out by verifying that you’re a human. On top … Read more
