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So in this case, a
computer
had evaluated millions of possible layouts, managed a complex relational system, and kept track of a very large set of measurements and variables, allowing the humans to focus on design and compositional choices.
Instead of thinking about what a
computer
will do to solve the problem, design the solution around what the human will do as well.
Every interaction we have in the world is recorded by an ever growing array of sensors: your phone, your credit card, your
computer.
The
computer
had to integrate a vast amount of geospacial information, social media data and relief organization information to answer this question.
We know from the sequencing of the human genome that it's shown us all of the A's, C's, G's and T's that make up our genetic code, but that code, by itself, our DNA, is like looking at the ones and zeroes of the
computer
code without having a
computer
that can read it.
Well, it wasn't that long ago we were asking, "Well, what would anyone do with a personal computer?"
So I'd like to share with you a story about a self-study, self-empowering
computer
science course that I built, together with my brilliant colleague Noam Nisan.
So it's not surprising that, about 12 years ago, when Noam and I were already
computer
science professors, we were equally frustrated by the same phenomenon.
So Noam and I had this insight that if we want our students to understand how computers work, and understand it in the marrow of their bones, then perhaps the best way to go about it is to have them build a complete, working, general-purpose, useful computer, hardware and software, from the ground up, from first principles.
So we now start this journey by telling our students that God gave us NAND — (Laughter) — and told us to build a computer, and when we asked how, God said, "One step at a time."
The trick was to decompose the
computer'
s construction into numerous stand-alone modules, each of which could be individually specified, built and unit-tested in isolation from the rest of the project.
For example, Pramode C.E., an engineer from Kerala, India, has organized groups of self-learners who build our
computer
under his good guidance.
And Parag Shah, another engineer, from Mumbai, has unbundled our projects into smaller, more manageable bites that he now serves in his pioneering do-it-yourself
computer
science program.
For example, Yu Fangmin, from Guangzhou, has used FPGA technology to build our
computer
and show others how to do the same using a video clip, and Ben Craddock developed a very nice
computer
game that unfolds inside our CPU architecture, which is quite a complex 3D maze that Ben developed using the Minecraft 3D simulator engine.
It became a question my entire life, and that's all right, because being good at math meant he bought me a computer, and some of you remember this computer, this was my first
computer.
That was the
computer
we knew.
That
computer
is a
computer
that I learned about going to MIT, my father's dream.
And at MIT, however, I learned about the
computer
at all levels, and after, I went to art school to get away from computers, and I began to think about the
computer
as more of a spiritual space of thinking.
I made a
computer
out of people.
I've turned the
computer
on, and these assistants are placing a giant floppy disk built out of cardboard, and it's put into the
computer.
So the bus diligently carries the data into the
computer
to the memory, to the CPU, the VRAM, etc., and it's an actual working
computer.
It looks like it's happening kind of quickly, but it's actually a very slow computer, and when I realized how slow this
computer
was compared to how fast a
computer
is, it made me wonder about computers and technology in general.
Remember when images were first possible with a computer, those gorgeous, full-color images?
You could listen to sound on the
computer.
We'd go to a
computer
store, and they'd do the same thing.
And they'd say, "Daddy, why doesn't the
computer
respond to sound?"
And it was really at the time I was wondering why doesn't the
computer
respond to sound?
That is, we exploit the fact that the healthy partner, playing somebody with major depression, or playing somebody with autism spectrum disorder, or playing somebody with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, we use that as a kind of biosensor, and then we use
computer
programs to model that person, and it gives us a kind of assay of this.
I'm with him; I'm going to echo his words: "I, for one, welcome our new
computer
overlords."
But what was striking to me over the last several years was that less and less was I going out into the world, and more and more, I was sitting in front of my
computer
screen.
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