History of Science and Technology Q&A (November 17, 2021)

Outline of Q&A
0:00 Stream starts
1:47 Stephen begins the stream
2:16 Are you familiar with Norbert Wiener's work? is it relevant to current computer science at all?
32:49 Do you have any interesting stories / comments about Frederick P. Brooks? What did you learn from The Mythical Man Month? (and when did you first read it?)
38:50 Dear Dr. Wolfram, what is your opinion on John Backus' lecture from 1977:"Can Programming be Liberated from the von Neumann Style?"? - Or was it even one cornerstone for Your thinking?
48:27 Did general system theory and systems theory die out and why?
55:44 Does functional programming count as liberation from von Neumann style?
56:03 ​According to Wikipedia, Fred Books (born 1931) is still alive.
56:17 Do you think scientific software development has a very different development practice?
1:00:18 Are you saying that flowchart descriptions of algorithms and computations originate from systems theory/general systems theory? I always thought that is just a part of modern computer science
1:00:45 Regarding what you just mentioned about education and teaching programming - what are your thoughts generally on how far our higher level languages are abstracting more and more away from the core metal? Do you worry about future generations of programmers not understanding core fundamentals and that we might come become stunted in terms of coming up with new languages and computing paradigms due to a lack of expertise?
1:09:06 Were you ever involved in the development of a kind of software that you now think might actually be morally questionable in some sense?

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[ms.julia-miguelr.bernardes]

These sessions are invariably excellent. This one is excellently outstanding.

(should any person wish to know the specifics of why I think so, just let me know - great excuse for me to listen to it again w paper and pencil on a purposefully empty, vast desk)

[silberlinie]

8:50;
Today it is called phase-locked loop
or phase lock loop (PLL).