Joseph Park, PhD PE

Sotware literacy Foundation

STEM

Software
Literacy

The National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) concludes that successful science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education in both school-based and out-of-school settings combined, will determine whether the United States will remain a leader among nations and be in a position to solve an array of immense and rapidly emerging national challenges in science and technology.

Underlying this challenge is the Digital Divide, which serves to broaden and deepen societal class boundaries.   These challenges must be addressed to solve the increasingly complex problems facing modern society.

Please support STEM Education and the Software Literacy Foundation.

About

My technical background is centered on Acoustics, Oceanography, Nonlinear Dynamics, Ocean Engineering, Signal Processing, Control and Systems Engineering, Numerical Modeling, Structural Engineering, Sensors and Instrumentation, Information Theory, Electronics... ∞ ... Other pursuits include Shotokan and Jazz.

My interests span the information, physical and cognitive sciences, and their nexus, e.g. complexity.


My Erdős number is 3. The links are: Erdős, Paul : Boes, Duane Charles : Obeysekera, Jayantha T. B. : Park, Joseph.

Beauty

Nature

Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities

Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities emerge in fluids with significant velocity shear or boundary differentials. We see this in oceanic boundaries, at much smaller scales, inside our own bodies... and even at galactic scales.

Network Complexity

Even a cursory glimpse of this Internet map strikes a remarkable resemblance to the topology of inter-glial connectivity exhibited in neural tissue slices from the cortical regions of mammalian brains. One must wonder whether such a coincidence speaks for an underlying structure in the evolution of information transmission and processing structures.

Network Connectivity

Hierarchies of information processing structures are being revealed in the human brain: The Human Connectome Project.

Brain homunculus
Technology

International Space Station

3.3 million lines of code on the ground support 1.8 million lines of flight code. Over 40 computers transfer 400,000 signals over 100 networks.

Kepler Mission

The Kepler mission provides solid evidence that Earth-size planets are not peculiar.

2 Billion Possibilities

If 5.7% of Sun-like stars in the Milky Way have planets with size and orbital period similar to Earth, that comes out to roughly 2 Billion stars.