21.137 new on WWW: Great Principles; Ubiquity 8.25; interface experiences

               Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 21, No. 137.
       Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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   [1] From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk> (22)
         Subject: Great Principles of Computing

   [2] From: ubiquity <ubiquity_at_HQ.ACM.ORG> (15)
         Subject: Ubiquity 8.25

   [3] From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk> (10)
         Subject: other interface experiences

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         Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 21:13:56 +0100
         From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>
         Subject: Great Principles of Computing

Not long ago I passed on an announcement from the ACM magazine
Ubiquity about an interview conducted with the computer scientist
Peter Denning. In case you missed it, the URL of the interview is
www.acm.org/ubiquity/interviews/v8i22_denning.html. As some of you
will know, Denning has devoted much of his career to articulating the
principles of his discipline in more or less plain language, for
which he has a gift. The interview holds much of interest for us, as
nearby neighbours who really should have a basic understanding of
computer science and who also worry a fair bit about getting the
respect of older kids on the block. Denning's preoccupation with
whether CS is "a science" may suffer from the belief that there is
such a singular entity -- contrary to much current work in the
history and philosophy of the sciences -- but his effort to
articulate principles is intelligent and so worth the candle.

A spinoff of the effort is the nascent Great Principles of Computing
Project, which Denning discusses in the interview and which may be
found at cs.gmu.edu/cne/pjd/GP/.

Yours,
WM

Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for
Computing in the Humanities | King's College London |
http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd
1617, p. 26).

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         Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 06:36:51 +0100
         From: ubiquity <ubiquity_at_HQ.ACM.ORG>
         Subject: Ubiquity 8.25

This Week in Ubiquity:

Volume 8, Issue 25

June 26, 2007 -- July 2, 2007

UBIQUITY ALERT: UBIQUITY ALERT: BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE

Business Intelligence (BI) -- an
interdisciplinary research topic that
incorporates analytical technology to produce
forecasts and identify causes and effects
relationships corresponding to particular
business scenarios -- involves the utilization of
data mining. Here, Goutam Saha aims surveys
various critical aspects of business intelligence computing.

See: <http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/views/v8i25_intelligence.html>

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         Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 06:37:23 +0100
         From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>
         Subject: other interface experiences

Yesterday, in Humanist 21.132 I mentioned Perry Hoberman's Cathartic
User Interface. Of course this is not online, but many other fine
things by Hoberman are. I strongly recommend you visit
http://www.perryhoberman.com/, esp if your skies are overcast and the
rain is falling.

Yours,
WM

Dr Willard McCarty | Reader in Humanities Computing | Centre for
Computing in the Humanities | King's College London |
http://staff.cch.kcl.ac.uk/~wmccarty/. Et sic in infinitum (Fludd 1617, p. 26).
Received on Wed Jun 27 2007 - 01:56:05 EDT