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 the spaces of our world, it becomes boring. And that’s a very good and desirable thing.

In Defense of Boring

Grady Booch reads his IEEE Software column On Computing, discussing the impact of computing on humanity.

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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. From IEEE Software's September/October 2016 issue: http://www.computer.org/csdl/mags/so/2016/05/index.html. Visit IEEE Software: http://www.computer.org/software.

No Laughing Matter

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 path of the possible. Subscribe to the On Computing podcast on iTunes at https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ieee-softwares-on-computing. From IEEE Software's July/August 2016 issue: http://www.computer.org/csdl/mags/so/2016/04/index.html. Visit IEEE Software: http://www.computer.org/software.

Disrupting the Disrupters

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 evolve them. Subscribe to the On Computing podcast on iTunes at https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ieee-softwares-on-computing. From IEEE Software's May/June 2016 issue: http://www.computer.org/csdl/mags/so/2016/03/index.html. Visit IEEE Software: http://www.computer.org/software.

It Is Cold. And Lonely.

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 Industrial Revolution and now find ourselves in the Computational Revolution. Subscribe to the On Computing podcast on iTunes at https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ieee-softwares-on-computing. From IEEE Software's March/April 2016 issue: http://www.computer.org/csdl/mags/so/2016/02/index.html. Visit IEEE Software: http://www.computer.org/software.

The Computational Human

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.

In Defense of Boring

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