Computationally Thinking

Happy New Year CompSust researchers! If you are in the Atlanta area take a look at this workshop being hosted by Georgia Tech. It looks like a good opportunity to build local awareness and community for CompSust problems and…

Here’s another great article about impending job losses over the next decade due to advanced automation, and it’s not just factories anymore. As the tasks that robots and all kinds of intelligent software systems become more subtle we may approach a point where there there will…

Commentaria on an a Facebook Apologia

Here is an interesting post, if bit of a long and rough, by Brian Keegan, a computational…

It occurred to me that the current train wreck that is carrying out in slow motion in congress this week as the world watches in confusion and horror may have a simple explanation from game theory. This is probably a huge…

I’ve been planning for a while to write a series of posts on this blog about how advances in science and technology have the potential to make certain current jobs carried out by people unnecessary. This topic gets some thoughtful coverage in the media from time to time but usually it’s…

For my Science Sunday post this week I’d like to point out that June 23, 2012 marks 100 years since the birth of one of the most important scientists or mathematicians of the last or any other century. Alan Turing is the father of Computer Science, was pivotal to the defeat of the Nazis…