Global Wahrman

Just as I walk out the door to NYC, I read some old email, and find that Tom McMahon has resurrected the long missing Boids tests from Stanl...

I am leaving for NY tomorrow and will be gone for about 10 days.  No doubt this will affect the blog as it may or may not be easy to make p...

(this is a draft and is in progress... send comments to michael.wahrman@gmail.com or leave a comment below). The Visual Effects Society...

We are told to accept Globalization as inevitable and beneficial. Just trust us, says Congress, as they pass free trade act after free tr...

One of the reasons for writing GlobalWahrman is to get first hand experience about what is involved in writing a blog. As part of that ...

From time to time when working at the RAND Corporation, I would occassionally pick up information that I was not supposed to hear. It wa...

About two years ago, I decided to learn NVIDIA's GPU programming environment, CUDA. I wrote a volume renderer in it which can render...

[revised 11/24/2013] I just saw ZDT, or  Zero Dark Thirty,  that controversial film by Kathryn Bigelow. I expected to hate it, but I a...

When I declined to attend the SIGGRAPH 2013 Keynote Speech, a friend was surprised and concerned. The Keynote speech was a collection o...

Many philosophers over the centuries have asked: "what makes bad user interface design?" Oh the arguments that have raged ove...