In the afternoon, professor Jeannette Wing presented her talk entitled “Computational thinking and thinking about computation” (slides). She wrote a short essay “J.M. Wing, “Computational Thinking, CACM Viewpoint, March 2006, pp. 33-35 (paper) and introduced her big vision for our future.
Prof. Wing
Computational thinking (CT) should become a fundamental skill for everybody in the [...]
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The day started with Professor Gaetano Borriello, from University of Washington and his talk entitled “Invisible Computing.”
Prof. Bariello started with the classical Weiser’s quote “the most remarkable technologies are those that disappear”, but remarked that currently computers are not really disappearing. He stressed an important aspect in the metaphor of [...]
I’m off for London tomorrow as there is this this awesome meeting next week entitled “From computers to ubiquitous computing, by 2020“, organized by the Royal Society. I’ll try to take plenty of notes, but it’ll be hard as it’s packed with great people. Like I’m gonna feel quite insignificant with such a line-up:
Professor Ozalp [...]
Finally it happened. And I think it was about time it happened! Gmail finally opened IMAP access to its mail server (okay may be already a while ago, but still I didn’t know), after billions of people (okay millions) kept crying, praying, chanting, and did hunger strikes (how do you say “grève de la faim” [...]
I just finished a workshop proposal for the LIFT conference in Geneva next February. It’s about lots of things. The “Internet of Things” to be more accurate.
A short summary of my workshop proposal, which is entitled “Upgrade your company – Industrial opportunities for the Internet of Things”:
Technologies that will form the future IoT will have [...]
I finally decided that I should spend more time blogging, for several reasons (10 of them actually) I should write down here:
1) to keep me motivated to work and find cool topics to write about (I say that all the time, but this time is true)
2) to improve my written skills (yeah!! I really should)
3) [...]
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