Friday, June 29, 2007
Speakers on campus
Attending UW has been a great opportunity to hear some very influential speakers in the world of computer science, including:
I'm not sure what it says about our industry that people only ever want to talk about its future, and never about its current state.
- Bill Gates, on the future of computing
- Richard Stallman, on the future of copyright
- Andy Tanenbaum, on the future of kernel design
- Vint Cerf, on the future of the Internet
- Bjarne Stroustrup, on the future of C++
I'm not sure what it says about our industry that people only ever want to talk about its future, and never about its current state.
Thursday, June 28, 2007
Tim Sherwood, CS prof at UC Santa Barbara
"... [the] human side of the equation is not understood to people outside the field ... they think we're all Monty Python quoting, Star Trek loving, Cheetos eating, caffeine addicted, girlfriendless freaks ... when in fact most CS people barely eat any Cheetos."
