Reed's Ruminations: The Past, Present, and Future
Reflections on science, technology, and computing — leavened by personal experience
Tag: superhero
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Seeing the Invisible: The Consilience of Knowledge
Seeing the invisible web of intellectual connectedness that binds as a community of scholars is the first step in embracing the consilience of knowledge.
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Computing Invisibility
Like superheroes, successful technologies also become invisible. As technologies mature, market penetration rises, cultural expectations shift and consumer knowledge of the underlying theory and practice generally decline.Today, most computer users know nothing of the halting problem, superscalar pipeline design or object oriented programming. This is success.
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Comic Book Heroes and Secret Identities
Microsoft and Seagate have recently launched a joint comic book series about IT professionals, called Heroes Happen Here (HHH). It is linked to a Microsoft product launch (Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008) and the associated marketing campaign. HHH will run through the end of June, and the writers are soliciting…