I'm not sure how many of us were there, but I found the talk quite thought provoking.
An earlier version of her slides are here: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/usr/wing/www/ct-and-tc-long.pdf .. and a more narrative article is here: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/usr/wing/www/publications/Wing06.pdf .. and the "5 Deep Questions" article is here: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/usr/wing/www/publications/Wing08.pdf .. more on her home page: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~wing/ I think the fundamental problem she poses is: "What are the core concepts in computing". Sort of searching for the spanning set for educational purposes. I rather like the concept. Much different than "How do I program?" and more like "What is computational epistemology?" I wish she had a blog/web presence. But she's quite busy and may not find blogging natural to her way of doing things. Ken Iversion was interested in this problem and wrote a few high-school textbooks using APL. Ken was approaching the problem a bit differently: he wanted to disambiguate standard mathematical notation and to use that to build a concrete computational epistemology .. i.e. build the spanning set I think Jeannette is interested in, although without the internet components. -- Owen ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
