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Reading Programs with Donald Knuth

I believe that the time is ripe for significantly better documentation of programs, and that we can best achieve this by considering programs to be works ...

Arvid Jacobson

On June 22nd and 23rd, 1954, several dozen representatives from the US government, academia, and the major computer manufacturers met at Wayne University in ...

Teaching Game Design Studio

This past year much of my time has been spent as the teaching assistant for the senior Game Design Studio course here at UCSC. The course is a year long proj...

Computing History and Education

I’ve been thinking a lot recently how computer science is taught in a vacuum, isolated from its history. From the outside this appears to be true in many oth...

Cybersyn and the Ludic Century

This afternoon I was running through my list of “links to read”, which had accumulated for quite a while. One of the earlier, shorter ones happened to be thi...

Bartleby

Warning: Boring Personal Reflection. Proceed with caution