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Joseph Buskmiller '19

Epic Games Spyware Controversy

On March 13, 2019, redditor u/notte_m_portent made a post about how Epic had been accessing data from other apps without any permission through the...

When Code is Too Slow

One of the challenges inherent to computer science is balancing the work done by the programmer in writing the code and the work done...

How to Make Friends: Emergent behavior in C++

After I finished my last exam and went home for the break, I was sitting at home in front of my fireplace screensaver in...

Mrs. Bruce’s Career in Digital Commerce

For many of the Jesuit students interested in computer science, a career in the industry is a very real possibility. Unfortunately, due to the...

Taking Notes from Disney’s Principled Shader

This is a render I made after researching Disney's rendering technology. Unlike previous renders I've made, everything in the scene, including lights, the clouds,...

Computing Without Electricity

People often think of computers as magical boxes that mysteriously format our documents or calculate trigonometric functions. This is not the case. Computers can...

Interviewing a Machine Learning Programmer

This is a conversation between me and a machine learning programmer. I find machine learning fascinating, because for the longest time, humans have been...

Software Rendering With C++ Part 1

The majority of 3D software out today, from Disney’s modeling tools (Maya) to any popular game engine (Unreal/Unity/Crysis) or engineering CAD (SolidWorks, AutoCAD) use...

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