Computing Conversations

Computing Conversations

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Computing Conversations episodes

  • Khan Academy and Computer Science
    Author Charles Severance provides an audio recording of his column in which he discusses his interview with John Resig and Pamela Fox regarding the somewhat recent addition of computer science to the topics covered by Khan Academy, where instructors upload short educational lectures on YouTube.
    10 min
  • Ian Foster on the Globus Project
    Author Charles Severance provides an audio recording of his Computing Conversations column, in which he discusses his interview with Ian Foster about how the Globus project helps move large amounts of data efficiently and safely, allowing scientists to focus on their research and not on IT problems.
    9 min
  • Nii Quaynor on Bringing the Internet to Africa
    Author Charles Severance provides an audio recording of his Computing Conversations column, in which he discusses his interview with Nii Quaynor about how the story of bringing the Internet to Africa is one of cooperation and collaboration for the common good.
    12 min
  • Elizabeth Fong on SQL Standards
    Author Charles Severance provides an audio recording of his Computing Conversations column, in which he discusses his interview with Elizabeth Fong about how the standards were created for the Structured Query Language (SQL) database. From Computer's August 2014 issue: http://www.computer.org/csdl/mags/co/2014/08/index.html. Visit Computer: http://www.computer.org/computer. Subscribe to the Computing Conversations podcast on iTunes at https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/computing-conversations/id731495760.
    9 min
  • Andrew S. Tanenbaum on MINIX
    Author Charles Severance provides an audio recording of his Computing Conversations column, in which he discusses his interview with Andrew S. Tanenbaum about the motivation, development, and market impact of the MINIX operating system. From Computer's July 2014 issue: http://www.computer.org/csdl/mags/co/2014/07/index.html.
    11 min
  • Nathaniel Borenstein on MIME
    Author Charles Severance provides an audio recording of his Computing Conversations column, in which he discusses his interview with Nathaniel Borenstein about how email evolved from plaintext to multimedia. Subscribe to the Computing Conversations podcast on iTunes at https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/computing-conversations/id731495760.
    12 min
  • Doug Van Houweling on Building the NSFNet
    The second Web extra at http://youtu.be/hgmSyjQwhG4 is an audio recording of author Charles Severance reading his Computing Conversations column, in which he discusses his interview with Doug Van Houweling about how the NSFNet went from connecting a few supercomputers to becoming "the Internet."
    13 min
  • Joseph Hardin: NCSA Mosaic
    Author Charles Severance provides an audio recording of his Computing Conversations column, in which he interviews Joseph Hardin about the development of the Mosaic browser at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications and how it introduced the World Wide Web to the general public.
    10 min
  • Massimo Banzi: Building Arduino
    Author Charles Severance provides an audio recording of his Computing Conversations column, in which he discusses his interview with Massimo Banzi about the origins and evolution of the Arduino microcontroller.
    10 min

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Much of modern-day computing can be traced to innovations starting in the 1940s - never before has a major field emerged and matured in a single generation. To better understand computing's potential…