/2009/10/22/how-complex-is-personal-computing---by-the-fine-folks-from-vpri?format=rss en-us 40 giving a little more thought... It would be really really nice to have videos of these talks :). Thanks a lot for writing this down :) Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:15:49 -0700 urn:uuid:620aa21c-a9d5-4003-a3d7-dad948e3ea45 http://softwareengineering.vazexqi.com/2009/10/22/how-complex-is-personal-computing---by-the-fine-folks-from-vpri#comment-39 <p>This is a talk that I would very much like to see!</p> <p>About the Einstein picture, however, I think that if Alan actually showed it to a general audience my guess is that he would be shocked at how few would recognize it. If he used the more famous one with him sticking out his tongue he would get better results. And if he tried it with any other physicist (except Stephen Hawking) his results would be similar to the Engelbart picture, even with an audience of physics students in my experience.</p> <p>About the t-shirt, you could just have a drawing of a NAND gate as one foundation for all computer hardware. Or use this C description of a Subtract-And-Jump-If-Negative computer as one foundation for all software:</p> <p>int pc=&amp;mem[0];while(1){pc=(*pc++ -= *pc++)&lt;0?*pc:++pc};</p> <p>This might not seem like a good foundation: where do you get recursion or objects from that one instruction computer? But you might also ask where do you get the structure of the DNA in Maxwell's equations?</p> Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:30:55 -0700 urn:uuid:e527157f-adc8-43e7-9086-aef8e1ebce14 http://softwareengineering.vazexqi.com/2009/10/22/how-complex-is-personal-computing---by-the-fine-folks-from-vpri#comment-40 The videos are public and I have posted links to them! :-) Tue, 27 Oct 2009 05:26:35 -0700 urn:uuid:c034f5c6-4426-4cfa-a34a-11b7e101deda http://softwareengineering.vazexqi.com/2009/10/22/how-complex-is-personal-computing---by-the-fine-folks-from-vpri#comment-41