The Essentials

In honor of what would have been the 78th birthday of Robert Moog, Ph.D. ’64, Google - whose NYC HQ will be home to the CornellNYC Tech campus for the next 5.5 years – has re-imagined its logo as a working version of one of Moog’s revolutionary synthesizers. Moog’s name became synonymous with the many forms of the music [...]

You’ve got to be pretty well educated simply to read the pages of Cornell.edu, according to a Google algorithm. IvyGate reports: “Ninety-eight percent of the University’s web pages were labeled as requiring advanced reading skills. This based on an algorithm Google devised after contracting a bunch of (probably drunk) teachers to sit in ergonomic chairs [...]