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IEEE Software Magazine to Sponsor ?Computing: The Human Experience?

IEEE Software Magazine to Sponsor “Computing: The Human Experience”











“Computing: The Human Experience” is intended to engage audiences of all ages in the story of the technology that has changed humanity.


LOS ALAMITOS, Calif. (PRWEB) December 23, 2011

IEEE Software magazine will be a media sponsor for “Computing: The Human Encounter,” a transmedia project being made by longtime Computer software contributor and board member Grady Booch and his wife, Jan, a psychotherapist, social worker, and theologian.

“Computing: The Human Experience” is intended to engage audiences of all ages in the story of the technologies that has changed humanity. The project will teach the vital science of computing, present the stories of the individuals, events, and inventions in the history of computing, examine the connections among computing, science, and society, and contemplate the future.

Computing is getting developed as a multipart series for broadcast together with a book, an eBook, a series of apps, related informational and social networking web web sites, and curriculum materials. Initial seed funding is getting raised with a Kickstarter project.

To contribute to the project by the January 2 deadline, pay a visit to http://computingthehumanexperience.com. The project is also seeking volunteers to support with research, interviews, and programming—“everything it takes to bring the story of computing to the globe,” according to the project description.

“Computing: The Human Experience” expects to do for computing what Carl Sagan’s “Cosmos” did for humanity’s appreciation of the universe. The project will trace computing’s past and present to determine how we’ve been shaped by computing, as well as computing’s prospective to shape future generations.

“In just 1 or two generations – an imperceptible time in the timeless sweep of the universe,” notes Booch, “we have developed a technologies that has the power to extend us, to transform us, to define us, possibly even to destroy us. Just think about it: there is practically absolutely nothing you see or do in your daily life that is NOT designed, supported, delivered or impacted by computing.”

Booch further observes, “The story of computing is the story of humanity: this is a story of ambition, invention, creativity, vision, avarice and serendipity, powered by a refusal to accept the limits of our bodies and our minds.”

Booch, an IBM Fellow and IBM Analysis Chief Scientist for Software program Engineering, is one of the original inventors of the Unified Modeling Language (UML). The author of six best-promoting books, he is also the author of IEEE Software’s On Architecture column and podcast series.

IEEE Software, the authority on translating software program theory into practice, offers pioneering ideas, professional analyses, and thoughtful insights for software professionals who require to maintain up with rapid technologies change. For specifics or to subscribe, check out http://www.computer.org/computer software.

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