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The Computer Science of Everyday Things

Professor Harold Thimbleby · Gresham College

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About

Moore's Law predicts substantial, sustained improvement in computing power. Yet while the technology gets better and better, the usability of 'everyday things' is low (video recorders being a notorious example). Obsolescence, a symptom of Moore's Law, hides flawed design: poor products are replaced rather than fixed. The poor quality of the computer science of everyday things is continually eclipsed by the hope for fixing today's problems with tomorrow's developments. This lecture shows that computer science can improve usability with ease.

The talk

  1. The Computer Science of Everyday Things 2002-10-15 · YouTube

Credits and licence

Institution
Gresham College
Speaker
Professor Harold Thimbleby
Year
2002
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Mathematics, Computer science
Source
Gresham College
Licence
Educational use (Gresham College's terms), as Gresham College states it. Gresham College's terms
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