Reed's Ruminations: The Past, Present, and Future
Reflections on science, technology, and computing — leavened by personal experience
Tag: Fred Brooks
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A {Racing} Bicycle for the Mind: Helmet Recommended
If the personal computer is a bicycle for the mind, then a supercomputer is a carbon fiber composite racing bicycle.
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Memos, Janitors, Teams, and Innovation
The next time you see a janitor, stop, smile, and say thank you. The word will spread, far faster and far more effectively than via any memo.
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My Balm in Gilead
COVID-19 has disrupted our lives in so many ways – commerce and trade, personal livelihoods and economic vitality, family and social interactions, health and wellness (obviously), mobility and travel, and education, to name just a few. This global pandemic has also exposed deep social inequities in new ways, convolved with political disarray and often dysfunctional…
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Intellectual Amplification via Computing
As the recent performance of IBM’s Watson system on the game show Jeopardy! Illustrated, the combination of large-scale data, rich algorithm suites and powerful computing is opening new vistas. Vannevar Bush’s 1940s vision of a Memex, a device capable of storing, indexing and retrieving data from a broad knowledge base, is now within our reach.