When Assistant to the Head of Upper School Michelle Bracken received a call from her sister-in-law, she was expecting a casual chat about family and friends, she said. Instead, her sister-in-law informed...
Rachel Persky ’15 rushes out the door and into her car to drive to her friend’s beach house, pulling up the navigation app Waze on her iPhone. She is running 10 minutes late and is stressed that she...
It is halfway through the period when Rosie* slides her black iPhone out of her Jansport backback.
She turns the volume off and lowers the brightness so the light from the screen doesn’t illuminate...
By Megan Ward
Jenna* was cruising to school for the first time in her brand new Volkswagen Jetta, taking a new route, when her built-in GPS stopped working. Instead of pulling over, she took out her phone...
By Claire Goldsmith
The Spectrum won the Best of Show award for junior high newspapers at the National Scholastic Press Association’s Spring Convention in Seattle April 12-15.
Adviser and English...
By Michael Rothberg
Cameron Cohen ’16 released his second iPhone application, AnimalGrams, in December 2011. He is currently donating a portion of the profits to fund pediatric oncologist Dr....
By Eli Haims
Consider the technology that we considered to be cutting edge just five years ago. The iPhone had just begun development, the MacBook was introduced and the Wii was released.
In five years,...
By Claire Hong
A $1 million prize will be awarded to the person who can create a program replicating the board game Go, where the computer can beat a human player.
Members of the Computer Science Club...
By Derek Schlom
Bobby Kazimiroff â09 is being followed. Forty-two people are acutely aware of his activities all day, every day. For instance, they know that on April 20 his breakfast consisted of...
By Lauren Seo
With four iPhone applications under his belt and one more pending, Ian Cinnamon â10 has taken his love for programming to the bank.
One of his more successful creations is CarFinder.
"Itâll...
