George K. Thiruvathukal

The Honors 204 web site (for my section) is now available. This is primarily aimed at my Loyola students enrolled in the Interdisciplinary Honors Program. This term, we are taking a look at network science and will be working through the excellent book, Networks, Crowds, and Markets. Students in my course should also make sure to join our course on Piazza (to which you have already been invited).

The COMP 170 web site (for my section) is now available. This is aimed primarily at my students at Loyola but might also be useful to others who want to teach/learn computer science. Students in my course should also make sure to join our course on Piazza (to which you have already been invited).

With every new year seems to come one change or another…

After a great deal of deliberation, I have decided that Tumblr is an ideal choice for maintaining my own personal web pages. It was kind of a tough decision, because I really liked the minimalist design of Jekyll.

What pushed me over the edge (I think) are the following:

• elegant and minimal themes that are easy on the eyes
• mobile website rendering
• basic page navigation
• vastly improved mobile clients for iOS and Android
• ability to support different “rich” post types
• Disqus integration for comments

In addition, much of what I used to keep on my personal site is now on separate sites, including my current courses at the university, publications, and my volunteer activities (which I do on other sites).

I’ll keep y’all posted but this looks like it is here to stay!