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Computing Up episodes
- Programming in Grad Student - Computing Up Nineteenth Conversation
When people ask what programming language Michael uses, he basically has to say 'Graduate Students'.
35 min - Does Neutral Point of View Exist - Computing Up Eighteenth Conversation
Michael corners Dave-the-extreme-relativist on the meaning of neutrality.
38 min - T2sday Updates - Computing Up Seventeenth Conversation
Dave's new thing. Also, Allen Ginsberg, and fricken leximited.
34 min - 32 min
- Uploading and Immortality - Computing Up Fifteenth Conversation
Dave and Michael talk about achieving immortality by 'uploading' yourself into a computer.
(Note: There's also this book.)
[Episode thumbnail based on public domain image.]
34 min - God exists - Computing Up Fourteenth Conversation
God exists in a perfectly real sense that is sure to please almost no one.
34 min - Richard Gerrig on Narrative Worlds - Computing Up Thirteenth Conversation
Michael and Dave talk to Professor Richard Gerrig about the power and the computation and cognitive science of stories and narrative worlds. Watch out! There be monsters!
[Title photograph courtesy of Richard Gerrig]
47 min - The Internet - Computing Up Twelfth Conversation
We are in the bronze age of the internet.
[Title background image is a 2005-era partial internet map, created by Matt Britt using data from the OPTE project, licensed under CC-BY-2.5]
36 min - Charles Isbell is Reinventing Computer Education - Computing Up Eleventh Conversation
Michael talks to Professor Charles Isbell about computing education and topics ranging from Sebastian Thrun to whether computer science is a lame name.
[Title photograph courtesy of Charles Isbell]
34 min - Now It's Meltdown and Spectre - Computing Up Tenth Conversation
Discussing the immediate and ultimate causes of these latest horrible predictable computer vulnerabilities.
But note that Dave the big expert confuses his facts at least twice: Austria is not Germany, and Heartbleed is not Shellshock.
[Title image based on a public domain CPU image posted by bicanski]
33 min
About Computing Up
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Conversations about computation writ large, with Michael Littman and Dave Ackley.