IEEE Software's "On Computing" with Grady Booch

The Great and Terrible Oz

Computing is transforming every aspect of the human experience. As creators of this technology, what obligations do we have to the general public, for whom we make the complex machinery of computing increasingly invisible?

Woven on the Loom of Sorrow

Computing was once a companion to conflict; computing is now an instrument of war; computing is becoming a theater of war. Along the way, conflict has shaped computing, and computing has changed the nature of warfare.

The Human Experience

Computing has transformed humanity in ways that we have only begun to metabolize. Computing amplifies what we celebrate most about being human, but it also has the capacity to magnify that which we mourn. Exploring the story of computing has value, for an educated populace is far more able to reconcile its past, reason about its present, and be intentional about its future.

Transition

Grady Booch introduces listeners of On Architecture to his new podcast, On Computing.

Once upon a Time

Author Grady Booch provides an audio recording of his On Computing column, in which he discusses the creation stories and myths of computing. Subscribe to the On Computing podcast on iTunes at https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ieee-softwares-on-computing. From IEEE Software's November/December 2016 issue: http://www.computer.org/csdl/mags/so/2016/06/index.html. Visit IEEE Software: http://www.computer.org/software.