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CATEGORIES:Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Scienc
 e and Technology 
SUMMARY:The 10 Cultures Problem - Bill Thompson
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20090527T141500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20090527T151500
UID:TALK17254AThttp://talks.cam.ac.uk
URL:http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/17254
DESCRIPTION:In May 1959 CP Snow used the Rede Lecture in Cambr
 idge to explore the\nnotion that British society\,
  its education system and its intellectual\nlife w
 as characterised by a split between two cultures\,
  the humanities\nand the sciences.\n\nToday the di
 vide that matters is that between those who can co
 unt in\nbinary and those who can't\, between the c
 ulture of the technologists\nand coders and that o
 f the users.  The division is similar to\, but not
 \nco-extensive with\, that identified by Snow simp
 ly because most\nscientists are\, thanks to the te
 chnological basis of their research\,\ncomputer-li
 terate\, while many of those in the arts\, humanit
 ies and\npolitics will be wondering what happened 
 to the other eight cultures\nreferred to in the ti
 tle of this lecture.\n\nWriter and journalist Bill
  Thompson took the Diploma in Computer\nScience in
  1983 and now describes himself as a 'technology c
 ritic'\,\nstraddling the two worlds in his work fo
 r the BBC\, Arts Council\nEngland and others.  In 
 this lecture he will consider what level of\nunder
 standing of computer science is needed in order to
  be an\neffective and engaged member of modern soc
 iety. Is there a\ntechnological equivalent of Snow
 's complaint that the literary people\nof his acqu
 aintance did not know of the Second Law of Thermod
 ynamics?\nShould everyone code\, or is it enough t
 o understand what Roger Needham\nmeant when he cla
 imed - as he so often did - that every problem in\
 ncomputing can be solved with another level of ind
 irection?\n\n\nPlease note that there will be a co
 mputing related treasure trail on the morning of t
 he talk\, starting in Central Cambridge and ending
  at the venue of the talk. See http://www.cl.cam.a
 c.uk/seminars/800/#events for details.
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre 1\, Computer Laboratory
CONTACT:Mateja Jamnik
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