IEEE Software's "On Computing" with Grady Booch

IEEE Software's "On Computing" with Grady Booch episodes:

• 08.08.2016

  No Laughing Matter

  Author Grady Booch provides an audio recording of his On Computing column, in which he discusses the journey to understand the theories, mechanisms, and algorithms that discern and define funny. Subscribe to the On Computing podcast on iTunes at https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ieee-softwares-on-computing....

  
• 06.28.2016

  Disrupting the Disrupters

  Author Grady Booch provides an audio recording of his On Computing column, in which he discusses how the way to disrupt an industry is to question the fundamental, sacred assumptions on which that industry is founded, then journey along the...

  
• 04.15.2016

  It Is Cold. And Lonely.

  Author Grady Booch provides an audio recording of his On Computing column, in which he discusses how the next generation of software-intensive systems will be taught instead of programmed. This poses considerable pragmatic challenges in how we develop, deliver, and...

  
• 03.01.2016

  The Computational Human

  Author Grady Booch provides an audio recording of his On Computing column, in which he discusses how different ages of humanity have required different modes of thinking. We have progressed from the Cognitive Revolution to the Agricultural Revolution to the...

  
• 11.03.2015

  Grady Booch: I, for One, Welcome Our New Computer Overlords

  Author Grady Booch provides an audio recording of his On Computing column, in which he discusses why he rejects fears that machines with superintelligent computing powers will eventually spell the end of humanity.

  
• 08.13.2015

  My Autobiography

  Author Grady Booch provides an audio recording of his On Computing column, in which he discusses how the story of computing is the story of humanity. This is a story of ambition, invention, creativity, vision, avarice, and serendipity, powered by...

  
• 06.12.2015

  Anarchy and Order

  Author Grady Booch provides an audio recording of his On Computing column, in which he discusses how computing amplifies the actions of governments, but can also temper its behavior by enabling mechanisms for private communication as well as for open...

  
• 06.12.2015

  Then A Miracle Occurs

  Author Grady Booch provides an audio recording of his On Computing column, in which he discusses how developing software-intensive systems is like many other things, but it’s also like no other thing. And for the general public, how software is...

  
• 02.11.2015

  Of Boilers, Bit, and Bots

  Author Grady Booch provides an audio recording of his On Computing column, in which he discusses how parallels exist between the Industrial Revolution and our current computing revolution regarding risk, transparency, and responsibility. Grady then examines some of these parallels,...

  
• 02.11.2015

  All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace

  Author Grady Booch provides an audio recording of his On Computing column, in which he discusses how we must come to grips with a number of practical and ethical conundrums as machines of our own creation become our companions, helpmates,...

  
• 02.03.2015

  Remembrance of Things Past

  Author Grady Booch provides an audio recording of his On Computing column, in which he discusses how although we live in a world of unprecedented complexity and astonishing possibility, we should never forget our past, for those who came before...

  
• 10.23.2014

  The Persistence of Memory

  Author Grady Booch provides an audio recording of his On Computing column, in which he discusses how even in the face of the tumultuous changes brought about by computing, the threads that define our very humanity still persist and bring...

  
• 08.14.2014

  To Code or Not to Code

  Author Grady Booch provides an audio recording of his On Computing column, in which he discusses how much a functioning member of society today should know about computing.

  
• 06.03.2014

  The Big Questions

  Author Grady Booch provides an audio recording of his On Computing column, in which he discusses the big questions whose answers shape the systems with which we engage.

  
• 04.07.2014

  The Incredible Lightness of Software

  Author Grady Booch provides an audio recording of his On Computing column, in which he discusses how from the inside of a software-intensive system, there are many different styles of implementation, each with its own subtle characteristics. From the outside,...

  
• 02.13.2014

  The Stories We Tell Ourselves

  Storytelling involves weaving abstractions about fundamental truths regarding the world and the human experience to entertain and educate. When it comes to movies and television, producers and directors often make computer technology look like magic. It doesn't have to be...

  
• 12.06.2013

  The Human and Ethical Aspects of Big Data

  Every line of code represents a moral decision; every bit of data collected, analyzed, and visualized has moral implications.

  
• 10.17.2013

  Deus ex Machina

  No matter your individual position on the matter, faith is a powerful element of the human experience. Therefore, it comes as no surprise that computing intersects with the story of belief in many ways. Here, we explore computing as a...

  
• 08.21.2013

  The Stories of Possibility

  There are three things that future generations may never experience: the smell of books, the sound of a computer, and the sanctuary of privacy. These human considerations are all unintended consequences of computing.

  
• 06.12.2013

  The Wonder Years

  Grady Booch peers behind the curtain of computing into the mystery behind software-intensive systems. To some, such systems look like magic; to most, the inner workings are irrelevant insofar that they simply work. To those of us behind the curtain,...

  
• 04.11.2013

  In Defense of Boring

  On the one hand, we seek to build software-intensive systems that are innovative, elegant, and supremely useful. On the other hand, computing technology as a thing unto itself is not the place of enduring value, and therefore, as computing fills...

  
• 02.20.2013

  From Minecraft to Minds

  The subject of the computability of the mind introduces complex philosophical, ethical, and technical issues. That aside, this topic draws us in to the nature of algorithms. We are surrounded by algorithms; much of the history of computing is also...

  
• 12.08.2012

  The Great and Terrible Oz

  Computing is transforming every aspect of the human experience. As creators of this technology, what obligations do we have to the general public, for whom we make the complex machinery of computing increasingly invisible?

  
• 10.13.2012

  Woven on the Loom of Sorrow

  Computing was once a companion to conflict; computing is now an instrument of war; computing is becoming a theater of war. Along the way, conflict has shaped computing, and computing has changed the nature of warfare.

  
• 10.10.2012

  The Human Experience

  Computing has transformed humanity in ways that we have only begun to metabolize. Computing amplifies what we celebrate most about being human, but it also has the capacity to magnify that which we mourn. Exploring the story of computing has...

  
• 10.10.2012

  Transition

  Grady Booch introduces listeners of On Architecture to his new podcast, On Computing.

  
• 01.01.1990

  Once upon a Time

  Author Grady Booch provides an audio recording of his On Computing column, in which he discusses the creation stories and myths of computing. Subscribe to the On Computing podcast on iTunes at https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ieee-softwares-on-computing. From IEEE Software's November/December 2016 issue: http://www.computer.org/csdl/mags/so/2016/06/index.html....