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Alan Kay : July 2007 : A Conversation with CMU Faculty & Students
Alan Kay visits Carnegie Mellon's School of Computer Science in 2007 for an informal conversation with faculty and students. He discusses the state of CS education and criticizes mainstream computing.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN recommends it for Kay's blunt critique of today's computing and standard CS curricula.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- CMU Robotics Institute
- Topic
- computer science education
- Format
- interview
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 3
- HN mentions in dataset
- 5
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2017–2024
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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This probably my favorite because it was mostly unscripted Alan Kay : July 2007 : A Conversation with CMU Faculty & Students [VIDEO]
blessedonekobo on Hacker News · 2024-03
In Alan Kay's talk at UCLA – Feb 2024 [video]I think you'll like the discussion he had at CMU a few years back, which focused a lot on the technology side of things [VIDEO]
skadamat on Hacker News · 2017-10
In The Future of Programming (2013)Funny you should say that. Reminds me of this video[0] where Alan Kay, almost impolitely, tears into today's computing while talking at CMU. [0] [VIDEO]
jstewartmobile on Hacker News · 2017-12
In Comparison of GreenArrays Chips with TI Micropower Controllers (2010) [pdf]
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