How to build a robot with Python Scripting on Android
This post was written by Zlata Barshteyn, a former intern here at Knewton. Every few months at Knewton, we have something called Hack Day, where team members take a day off from regular work tasks to tackle projects they’ve been itching to develop. These “hacks” typically fall into one of …
Welcome Gavin, Nikos, and Sudhama
We welcomed three rookie Knerds in the past few weeks. We’re psyched to have them, and thought we’d share a few fun facts about each new member of our team. Nikos Michalakis is the newest engineer on our Platform team. Originally from Athens, Greece, Nikos graduated from MIT and worked previously …
Design sketchstorming: Solve big problems quickly [VIDEO]
Here at Knewton, we’re growing fast. It sometimes seems as though new teams form and change almost every day. Everyone here has awesome, intelligent, useful ideas, and when we start a new project we want to get everyone’s input — without taking too much time out of the day. It’s a …
Content with context: the next phase of digital learning
When the idea of digital learning first began to gain traction, the focus was largely on two things: distribution and access. The internet, with the help of OER initiatives like MIT OpenCourseWare, allowed educational content to be disseminated more efficiently to students around the globe. But that was a decade …
Musings of a Data Scientist: Mega Millions Jackpot
Here at Knewton we decided to purchase Mega Millions lottery tickets collectively. Here are some musings from our data science team on our chances of hitting it big. The upcoming Mega Millions jackpot is around $540 million per $1 ticket, or a payoff of 540 million to one. The …
The science behind tech: why we have a physicist at Knewton
Because I’m a physicist by training, I sometimes get asked what I’m doing at a tech company. After all, I spent a huge chunk of my life learning how to be a physicist. Why aren’t I smashing atoms, or making cold things levitate, or finding new things to do with lasers? First, my …
Generation Flux: Multimedia Production
To chronicle the chaotic new reality of our times, Robert Safian at FastCompany recently published an article which identified speed, chaos, and uncertainty as defining qualities of business in the twenty-first century. Some—Safian identifies them as “Generation Flux”—have survived and even thrived in the new economic climate by adopting a …
A Knerd-y tattoo story: the Schrödinger Equation
A few of the men and women here at Knewton have had the pleasure of seeing me shirtless, and noticed my very nerdy tattoo. A few of them have asked me to explain it, so here goes: This equation is the Schrödinger Equation. The link to the Wikipedia page is here. If …
From details to deep understanding: how the internet has changed the way I think
This post was inspired by Edge.org’s collection of responses to the question, “How has the Internet changed the way you think?” Check out our other posts on the subject here. In elementary school I worried about discrete facts. I had to memorize the preamble of the United States Constitution, and …
First glance at the new and improved Knewton HQ
That’s right: Knewton is moving! Our team has more than doubled since we moved into our current office 2+ years ago, and we’re more than ready for a space upgrade. In the past few years, Union Square has become a hub for tech startups; when we began our search, we …
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