# The Computer Science of Everyday Things

- Institution: Gresham College
- Speaker: Professor Harold Thimbleby
- Year: 2002
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Mathematics, Computer science
- Source: [Gresham College](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/computer-science-everyday-things)
- Licence: [Educational use (Gresham College's terms)](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/terms-and-conditions)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

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.

## Lectures

1. [The Computer Science of Everyday Things](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/computer-science-everyday-things/fa05647e0ac9) (YouTube)