Volunteers from area IT firms used their skills to help non-profit organizations during Grand Rapids’ GiveCamp. A weekend-long hackathon, the event paired teams of software developers, designers and...
Every year more students choose to major in professional or STEM programs, according to this year’s day 10 report. Over the last 10 years, departments like education and religion have seen significant...
Dr. Randall Pruim's fingers fly as he folds business cards into dozens of paper cubes. Over the next week, Pruim and other volunteers will assemble thousands of such cubes into a model of a Menger sponge...
As Rent-A-Bike enters its third year, student senate plans to re-evaluate the future of the program. Senate hopes to gather student input throughout this process of reassessment.
The program has already...
Motorola unveiled its first smartwatch, the Moto 360, two weeks ago. If you didn’t notice, I don’t blame you. The product announcement was a modest press event sans famous rock band. The Moto 360 didn’t...
The Engineering building teems with students this time of year, all putting the final touches on their senior design projects. If mental computation were audible, one would hear a din of whirrs and clicks...
When a bug discovered in the widely-used cryptography library OpenSSL was disclosed on April 7, Calvin Information Technology, along with thousands of other I.T. and software organizations, rushed to respond...
Chimes took an informal poll of 210 students Wednesday evening to capture current student opinions before Thursday's election. The Executive race looks to be close, but the majority of students polled...
Brendan Eich resigned on April 3 after a one-and-a-half week term as CEO of the Mozilla Corporation, a company best known for its Firefox web browser. Eich stepped down after publicization of his contributions...
Visitors to Calvin's website will notice a major redesign next week. According to Tim Ellens, director of communications and marketing, the new design focuses on serving the needs created by the changing...
Mt. Gox, a prominent Japanese bitcoin exchange, ceased transactions and shuttered its website Monday. The shutdown comes after a leaked document revealed massive theft resulting in the exchange's insolvency.
Mt....
With their new website, Peter VandeHaar and Matt Greeley want to change the way you buy books for classes online.
The idea was born out of frustration: VandeHaar spoke of his frustration when purchasing...
A judge dismissed a copyright lawsuit regarding Google Books on Thursday, Nov. 14. The Authors Guild brought the lawsuit against Google, Inc. in 2005, claiming that the company infringed copyright by scanning...
The following is an interactive data visualization presenting data from Calvin Enrollment's annual Day 10 report.
You can find the data visualization here.
Instructions:
Change the category of...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has found water on Mars.
Analysis by the rover Curiosity revealed that soil on Mars contains two percent water by weight, meaning that one cubic...
The 2013 Ig Nobel prize winners were announced Thursday, Sept. 12 at Harvard University. Each year the magazine "The Annals of Improbable Research" awards researchers who make the strangest contributions...
Nathan Menkveld, a senior computer science major, had an idea to harness Calvin's computing power to generate extra cash by mining cryptocurrency, which could be put towards a department scholarship, as...
Redmond, meet Espoo. Microsoft announced a $7.17 billion purchase of Finnish telecom corporation Nokia's Devices and Services division on Tuesday, Sept. 3. The purchase includes the Lumia brand of smartphones,...
I’m always excited to see a new mobile operating system. Therefore, as soon as Canonical released the Ubuntu for phones developer preview, I had to try it out. While the developer preview experience...
Prime numbers have always fascinated mathematicians. They pepper the natural numbers with a disconcerting degree of unpredictability, yet are distributed quite evenly. So much of mathematics finds surprising...
Whenever a young person commits suicide, our understanding of the universe dies a little. It is especially so in the case of a singularly bright and determined individual, as Aaron Swartz was. For many...
Chimes editor John Muyskens sat down with Richard Mouw for a discussion about dialogue with Mormons, evangelism and student newspapers before Mouw’s January Series talk on Jan. 9.
John Muyskens: What...
Peter Diamandis is the founder of the X Prize foundation and the chair of Singularity University. His January Series talk on Jan. 10 explained how technology will be able to solve many of the world’s...
I will admit that I entered Jeff Van Duzer’s talk slightly late and slightly skeptical. I held the idea that business was at best bland and at worst evil. If anything, the talk helped me look at...
Unveiled this past week, a host of new tablets, e-readers, smartphones, and portable media players are sure to inspire gadget lust. Amazon announced a new line of Kindles and Apple revealed the iPhone...
Dropbox. There is no easier solution for keeping files backed up to the cloud, synchronized across your devices and accessible anywhere with an internet connection. Its also perfect for sharing a pesky...
