Andrew, The project is currently in the research and development phase. You may have noticed that Dag is on the advisory board; John Hollar, CHM’s CEO, is the executive producer. I don’t think that there is specific content yet that Grady is ready to share, but from what I have seen so far, he’s planning for it to be quite significant in scope. — Alex Bochannek, Curator & Senior Manager Computer History Museum 1401 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View, CA 94043 Phone: +1 650 810 1894 Twitter: @awbchm On Dec 3, 2011, at 7:09 AM, Andrew Russell wrote:
Hi everyone -
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?
Cheers,
Andy
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-----Original Message----- From: Mary Shaw <mary.shaw@cs.cmu.edu> To: Dave Farber <dave@farber.net> Sent: Fri, 02 Dec 2011 2:47 PM Subject: For IP: Grady Booch's new project, "Computing; the Human Experience"
Dave,
I'd like to call IP readers' attention to Grady Booch's new project, "Computing: The Human Experience". Grady is an IBM Fellow and Chief Scientist at IBM research; I have held him in high regard for many years.
Grady has now turned his attention to interpreting computing to the public at large. He's developing a project in a variety of media, aiming to explain not only the technology but also how it affects everyone and how individuals following their own passions have shaped it. Think Carl Sagan's Cosmos, but for computing.
The project is at http://computingthehumanexperience.com/public/
Grady is currently raising seed funding through Kickstarter, http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1747241049/computing-a-documentary-of-th... In his description there, he says, "Computing is a story of ambition, passion, invention, creativity, vision, avarice, and serendipity, powered by a refusal to accept the limits of our bodies and our minds. From the abacus to the iPad, from Gutenberg to Google, from Enigma to GPS, we have created computers to count the uncountable, remember beyond our own experiences, and see the invisible as well as the unforeseeable. To explore computing is the 21st Century equivalent of Cousteau exploring the sea, of Hughes exploring modern art, and of Burns exploring the American experience through the Civil War, baseball, and jazz. "
There's an e-week article at http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Infrastructure/IBM-Chief-Scientist-to-Launch-TV-...
and an InfoQ article at http://www.infoq.com/news/2011/12/booch-tv
I have the great good fortune to serve on the advisory board for the project, and I thnk IP'ers will be interested in following its progress.
Mary Shaw
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