Talk at Yale
Apress eBooks · 2008
I graduated with a BS in computer science in 1991. Sixteen years ago. What I’m going to try to do today is relate my undergraduate years in the CS department to my career, which consists of developing software, writing about software, and starting a software company. And, of course, that’s a little bit absurd; there’s a famous part at the beginning of MIT’s Introduction to Computer Science where Hal Abelson gets up and explains that computer science isn’t about computers and it isn’t a science, so it’s a little bit presumptuous of me to imply that CS is supposed to be training for a career in software development, any more than, say, media studies or cultural anthropology would be. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.