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| Dec 14, 2025 | » | CS 81n: Hackers and Heroes
2 min; updated Dec 14, 2025
Recreational Programming with Hackers : Ch 1: The Tech Model Railroad Club Ch 2: The Hacker Ethic Ch 3: Spacewar Ch 4: Greenblatt and Gosper Ch 5: The Midnight Computer Wiring Society Ch 6: Winners and Losers Ch 7: Life The Last of the True Hackers Margaret Hamilton, the Engineer Who Took the Apollo to the Moon Rise of Worse Is Better The Inner Ring In the Beginning was the Command Line Mathematical Games - The fantastic combinations of John Conway’s new solitaire game ‘life’ Conway’s Game of Life - Wikipedia Interviewing Principles An Insider’s View of ‘Ciscogate’ More Tales From ‘Ciscogate’ What is Engineering?... |
| Mar 1, 2020 | » | [ToDo] CS 181: Computers, Ethics, and Public Policy
1 min; updated Sep 5, 2022
The instructors of Home | Ethics of Technological Disruption have written a book: “System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot” ( available on SPL ). The authors' main ideas: the question is not about values, but better/worse social outcomes; understanding the optimization mindset of the technologist is more helpful than understanding the underlying tech; government regulation can and has led to good outcomes; a libertarian approach, e.... |