Charlie Martin is a Colorado computer scientist and freelance writer. He holds an MS in Computer Science from Duke University, where he spent six years with the National Biomedical Simulation Resource, Duke University Medical Center. Find him at http://chasrmartin.com, and on his blog at http://explorations.chasrmartin.com.
Just one of the scandals is the willingness to manipulate data to make a political case.
BBC confirms that a hack did indeed occur. Is this smoking-gun evidence of global warming data being fabricated? (Also read Richard Fernandez: "The CRU Hack")
The latest sourced information on the 9/12 crowd points to a lower bound of at least half a million.
Our attempt to calculate the true size of the 9/12 march.
The upcoming free, lightweight, netbook-based operating system spells trouble for the weighty dinosaurs of Silicon Valley.
Can a computer-driven aircraft control system be made as reliable as a man operated plane?
The Wolfram/Alpha search may not be a "Google killer," but it's pretty cool in a nerdy sort of way.
Don't forget: with the Internet and a 24-hour news cycle, nobody makes money by keeping us calm.