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 [...]
Professor Ozalp Babaoglu: “self-* properties of complex systems“.
Current information systems have reached a level of complexity that makes it very complicated to manage and deploy distributed software using traditional techniques. Nowadays, most costs are related to maintain and fix existing systems rather than buying new equipment. To lower the total cost of ownerships of IT [...]
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 [...]
I think I’ll start doing a weekly digest where I dump most cool/useful things I’ve seen this week, and that are somewhat relevant to my work / projects. In parallel, I’ll try to blog more in detail about some of the that are much more interesting to me.
BLOGS – Blag’s best blog picks from 2007. [...]
I’ve recently stumbled upon a fantastic idea, actually, I literally fell off my chair. Some guys came up with a new way of using markers for textiles (wash at 60°, dry clean only, do not iron, etc), but instead of printing them, they used an RFID tag into it. The new idea is that rather [...]
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