The room was so packed that quite some people had to remain standing, and it was worthwhile to have come. This is a thoughtful book written by two leading researchers and academicians, Turing-award winner Barbara Liskov, whose previous work included the development of, what was for its time, an innovative programming language (CLU) which integrated data and operations into parametrizable clusters, and John Guttag, who at the time was a leading researcher into algebraic specifications of … Unfortunately those very same techniques will allow very efficient data mining of the patterns of your use on the internet and so forth, so there’s the good side and the bad side.I am absolutely on the university side here. And the first audience question (by I did not enjoy this panel. This is an ACM event, not a United Nations event. Dec 15, 2014 - Barbara Liskov - 1939-present. There was a brief silence as the group changed subjects, and someone suggested that we do a round of introductions. bonyen 7 hours ago. She had not known that the principle had borne her name for years in the community.Barbara Liskov on the Power of Abstraction - May 30, 2011 - Raphael Reitzig !Section-breaks are labeled as “panel”, “talk”, “question”, etc.This is intentionally “bad writing” in the Peter Lee sense (see below) — primarily “what I saw”, very little about “what I thought and felt”. And Unix is definitely NOT an example of a “right design”; rather it’s a landmark of When Michael Jordan said “people are non-modular”, I think he means that people are able to break abstraction barriers when needed.Note: I was volunteering during this session; quotes are sparseI totally agree with the “empower the fanatics” sentiment. I’m sure I could find a way to read it with help from the internet — either by searching Google, pirating an old version of PowerPoint, or asking online forums.
It is such a short-sighted view to think that you should get people out of university who are training to do one specific thing. I guess it’s not right to assume the nervousness is “little” for everyone. My father was an attorney. We’re talking about things like identity theft, which is already happening. What’s going on is thinking about, “How do we conceptualize the problem? That’s going to go on and you know what they’re going to come up with is going to be hard to predict.But it’s migrated into this other meaning, which is somebody that’s doing bad stuff on the internet.It’s something that the research community is very interested in right now. calculating an area. Abbate: I’d like to start out with your family background.
Apparently, she received an email in the 90’s by somebody asking her whether he got her principle right, surprising her. The other part of it is more like a craft. So personally I’m not worried about losing data we have currently; I’m more worried about the future, the internet becoming “less chaotic”.The panel raised a good question about how to preserve research and encourage reproducibility. The problem is that the field moves and if you do not have somebody coming out of university with general skills that allow them to move with it, then in a few years they are obsolete.Fortnightly newsletters help sharpen your skills and keep you ahead, with articles, ebooks and opinion to keep you informed.Fortnightly newsletters help sharpen your skills and keep you ahead, with articles, ebooks and opinion to keep you informed.Richard Morris is a journalist, author and public relations/public affairs consultant. A summary in my own words just wouldn’t do justice to the panelists.It’s a good sculpture and it’s good we remember Alan Turing, but I’m sad that the ACM would encourage this kind of idol-worship. You can watch the lecture—in another instance—in full Since the lecture itself can be watched online, I just want to share my favorite quotes and anecdotes I wrote down during the talk; I hope I am not misquoting. […] Programmers are far too hung up with performance.Unaccredited critique of Liskov getting the Turing award:Why did she get this award?