Blog

Sep 21 2025

x-men re-examined: secrets, not long buried

A cute Western homage that unintentionally makes Magneto’s point.

Sep 16 2025

x-men re-examined: courage

The surprisingly well-handled but all too brief return of Morph.

Sep 13 2025

x-men re-examined: xavier remembers

Xavier remembers; the audience forgets.

Sep 12 2025

the design optimism of the seneca keyboard

How a mechanical element that affects just five keys exemplifies the design philosophy of Ryan Norbauer’s Seneca keyboard.

Publications

I am an author of 22 scientific publications, 15 white papers, 3 popular press articles, and 32 conference presentations. Here’s my favorite.

The latest is:

Humanizing AI in Education: A Readability Comparison of LLM and Human-Created Educational Content PDF DOI

Rashid, M. M., Atilgan, N., Dobres, J., Day, S., Penkova, V., Küçük, M., Clapp, S. R., & Sawyer, B. D., Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting 68(1)

Contact

I’d love to hear from you. Email is best. StackOverflow is a favorite haunt. ResearchGate has all my science. And I sometimes check LinkedIn.