<html><head></head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>He has been talking about this project within the IEEE for some time, perhaps a year. The summary below more or less captures what I know about it. At one point he circulates. Short treatment of his idea but he has advanced his idea substantially since then. It might be a good idea to ask him for a summary for this list. </div><div><br></div><div>David</div><div><div>_______________</div><div>David Alan Grier</div><div>Editor emeritus, Annals of the History d Computing </div><div>President-elect, IEEE Computer Society</div><div>IEEE Fellow </div>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On Dec 3, 2011, at 10:09 AM, Andrew Russell <<a href="mailto:arussell@stevens.edu">arussell@stevens.edu</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hi everyone - <div><br></div><div>Some of you might have already seen this message posted to Dave Farber's IP list yesterday. It looks like a fascinating project, and, even better, it looks like CHM has a prominent role in its direction. I wonder if anyone from CHM who is on the list (Dag? Alex?) could say more about it?</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Andy</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br></font>-----Original Message-----<br>From: Mary Shaw <<a href="mailto:mary.shaw@cs.cmu.edu">mary.shaw@cs.cmu.edu</a>><br>To: Dave Farber <<a href="mailto:dave@farber.net">dave@farber.net</a>><br>Sent: Fri, 02 Dec 2011 2:47 PM<br>Subject: For IP: Grady Booch's new project, "Computing; the Human Experience"<br><br></div>Dave,<br><br>I'd like to call IP readers' attention to Grady Booch's new project, <br>"Computing: The Human Experience". Grady is an IBM Fellow and Chief <br>Scientist at IBM research; I have held him in high regard for many years. <br><br>Grady has now turned his attention to interpreting computing to the <br>public at large. He's developing a project in a variety of media, aiming <br>to explain not only the technology but also how it affects everyone and <br>how individuals following their own passions have shaped it. Think Carl <br>Sagan's Cosmos, but for computing.<br><br>The project is at <a href="http://computingthehumanexperience.com/public/">http://computingthehumanexperience.com/public/</a><br><br>Grady is currently raising seed funding through Kickstarter, <br><a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1747241049/computing-a-documentary-of-the-human-experience">http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1747241049/computing-a-documentary-of-the-human-experience</a><br>In his description there, he says,<br>"Computing is a story of ambition, passion, invention, creativity, <br>vision, avarice, and serendipity, powered by a refusal to accept the <br>limits of our bodies and our minds. From the abacus to the iPad, from <br>Gutenberg to Google, from Enigma to GPS, we have created computers to <br>count the uncountable, remember beyond our own experiences, and see the <br>invisible as well as the unforeseeable. To explore computing is the 21st <br>Century equivalent of Cousteau exploring the sea, of Hughes exploring <br>modern art, and of Burns exploring the American experience through the <br>Civil War, baseball, and jazz. "<br><br>There's an e-week article at <br><a href="http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Infrastructure/IBM-Chief-Scientist-to-Launch-TV-Series-on-Computing-340515/">http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Infrastructure/IBM-Chief-Scientist-to-Launch-TV-Series-on-Computing-340515/</a><br><br>and an InfoQ article at<br><a href="http://www.infoq.com/news/2011/12/booch-tv">http://www.infoq.com/news/2011/12/booch-tv</a><br><br>I have the great good fortune to serve on the advisory board for the <br>project, and I thnk IP'ers will be interested in following its progress.<br><br>Mary Shaw</blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>This email is relayed from <a href="mailto:members@sigcis.org">members@sigcis.org</a>, the email discussion list of SHOT SIGCIS. The list archives are at <a href="http://sigcis.org/pipermail/members/">http://sigcis.org/pipermail/members/</a> and you can change your subscription options at <a href="http://sigcis.org/mailman/listinfo/members">http://sigcis.org/mailman/listinfo/members</a></span></div></blockquote></body></html>