IEEE Software's "On Computing" with Grady Booch
Grady Booch reads his IEEE Software column On Computing, discussing the impact of computing on humanity.
- Update frequency
- every 50 days
- Average duration
- 9 minutes
- Episodes
- 27
- Years Active
- 2012 - 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. Subs…
00:09:54 |
Mon 08 Aug 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 in…
00:09:53 |
Tue 28 Jun 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…
00:09:32 |
Fri 15 Apr 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 …
00:08:33 |
Tue 01 Mar 2016
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 en…
00:09:06 |
Tue 03 Nov 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, creativit…
00:08:44 |
Thu 13 Aug 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 mecha…
00:10:19 |
Fri 12 Jun 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…
00:10:41 |
Fri 12 Jun 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 cre…
00:10:14 |
Wed 11 Feb 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 r…
00:11:10 |
Wed 11 Feb 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 nev…
00:09:10 |
Tue 03 Feb 2015
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…
00:10:09 |
Thu 23 Oct 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.
00:10:23 |
Thu 14 Aug 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.
00:10:01 |
Tue 03 Jun 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,…
00:10:20 |
Mon 07 Apr 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 direct…
00:09:47 |
Thu 13 Feb 2014
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.
00:10:21 |
Fri 06 Dec 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 wa…
00:10:10 |
Thu 17 Oct 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 consequen…
00:08:52 |
Wed 21 Aug 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 th…
00:08:18 |
Wed 12 Jun 2013
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