[NTLUG:Announce] [javamug] Fwd: [ecs.cs.gr] Distinguished Lecture on 12/2

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                      Chris Rauschuber                                                                                         
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Hi Everyone,

This is a follow-up to the email I sent a couple of months ago.
Dr. Fred Brooks, Jr. will be speaking on "The Design of Designs" at
UTD.
http://www.utdallas.edu/dept/eecs/lecturerseries2002.html

Chris

> Subject: [ecs.cs.gr] Distinguished Lecture on 12/2
>
> Our last distinguished lecture of the semester will be held on
> December 2nd. The speaker will be Frederic P. Brooks, Jr., a
> Turing Award winner. As you know, Turing Award is the highest
> honor accorded to a Computer Scientist. Some call it the Nobel
> prize of Computing.
>
> So this is a unique opportunity to hear a great man. Fred
> has numerous other honors: national academy of engineering member,
> national medal of science winner, guggenheim fellow, ACM fellow,
> etc., etc. You name it, and he's got it.
>
> He was the architect of the pioneering IBM 360 OS. His book
> "the Mythical Man Month" has been a best-seller, and he has done
> considerable work in Computer Graphics (including founding a group
> in Computer Graphics/Virtual Reality, recognized as #1 in the world).
>
> The abstract is included below. See you all there. -Gopal
>
>
>
> Title:The Design of Design
> Time: 11:00AM, Dec. 2nd
> Place: ECS 2.102
>
> Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.
> Kenan Professor of Computer Science
> University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
>
> Abstract
>
>            Designing computers, graphics hardware, programming languages,
> operating systems,  and big applications systems seems to have a lot
> in common, across those diverse media.  These same commonalities also
> occur in the processes of designing buildings, and even
> organizations.  In disciplines such as building architecture,
> mechanical engineering, and industrial design, there is currently a
> lot of study of the design process, and 25 years of research
> literature.  Perhaps computer scientists, and indeed all designers,
> can learn from these older design disciplines.
>
>            Four major trends have changed design substantially since
WWII, and
> strikingly since the 19th century:
>            -  design by designers who could not themselves make the
designed
> object,
>            -  design by teams, sometimes geographically dispersed,
>            -  the capture of designs in computer models, besides or
instead of
> drawings, and
>            -  the promulgation of formal design models and processes.
>
>            We essay some analysis of these trends.  Analysis inevitably
> generates opinions on how design should be done, and how it should be
> taught.
>
>
>
>
>
>


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