Computer Science Is Everywhere
Earlier this week Microsoft Research had a special opening symposium. I really wanted to go. But alas other work commitments kept me from going. Fortunately for me and for many others the talks were recorded and are now publicly available at: https://research.microsoft.com/conferences/msrneopening/agenda.aspx
One of the talks I thought would be of particular interest to my readers is this one:
· (Theoretical) Computer Science is Everywhere by Erik Demaine
He’s got a lot of interesting and unexpected places where computer science is important. Highly recommended.
A lot of you who are interested in Web 2.0 both in general will also be interested in Understanding Socio-Technical Phenomena in Web 2.0 Era by danah boyd. I’m pretty excited that danah will be joining Microsoft Research in January. I’ve been following danah boyd’s blog for a while and she knows a lot about how young people use the Internet.