Most people think of the children’s classic “Charlotte’s Web” as a story of devoted friendship between a spider and a pig. But it can also be read as a story of a budding engineer – Charlotte – who ...

The past three years have been turbulent for the technology industry. Following a period of fast growth as organizations and individuals embraced a digital-first mindset amid the pandemic, our ...

Years of working with large-scale distributed systems have reinforced a lesson that only becomes clearer with time: ...

With the 40th anniversary of the Apollo moon landing, commentators from all disciplines are offering insights into “what it all meant.”.Let's instead stick to results closer to home: What did the ...

How often did you encounter engineering lessons in your school years? The answer for most of us is “never.” Students that happened to do well at math and science might select engineering as a field of ...

The following article originally appeared in Inside Higher Ed. A few years ago, Northwestern University alumnus Stephen Colbert spoke to our graduating seniors about improvisation. He said one of the ...

Every engineer is going to have a bad day, but only an unlucky few will have a day so bad that it registers on a seismometer. We’ve always had a morbid fascination with engineering mega-failures, few ...

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(THE CONVERSATION) Most people think of the children’s classic “Charlotte’s Web” as a story of devoted friendship between a spider and a pig. But it can also be read as a story of a budding engineer – ...