The Digest Did Not Carry the Item

Peter Gabriel Neumann died on May 17, 2026, in a hospital in Santa Clara, California. He was ninety-three years old. The people who loved him, and the newspapers, and the Association for Computing Machinery, all said the same thing: complications of a fall. That was the whole report. He had spent forty-one years teaching the…

Confessions of a Social Media Lurker

Most people probably share my disposition. When we check out social media, we are saddened and repulsed by what we see people post, especially the aggressive lashing out and spiteful politics. We don’t wish to add to this, so we say nothing. Neither do we want to help anyone better understand the topics that frustrate…