{"id":718,"date":"2006-02-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-26T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwneu.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2006\/02\/27\/656\/"},"modified":"2006-02-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-26T23:00:00","slug":"656","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2006\/02\/27\/656\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Computer Science an Oxymoron?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Phil Windley reports a talk by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.windley.com\/archives\/2006\/02\/alan_kay_is_com.shtml\" title=\"Phil Windley's Technometria | Alan Kay: Is Computer Science as Oxymoron?\">Alan Kay: Is Computer Science an Oxymoron?<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8222;Engineers should read a book about how the Empire State building was done. Including the demolition of the building on the site before, the Empire State building was built in 11 months by 3000 people. We don\u2019t know how to do this in computing. Whatever we think engineering is, it can\u2019t mean the modern use of the term. I don\u2019t know of a single computing system that is attached to you that if it fails it will almost certainly kill you. That\u2019s what happens with jet engines. That\u2019s engineering.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;] We\u2019re much better at building software systems than we are at predicting what they will do. There are no good models. If we were scientists, we\u2019d be trying to build models.&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phil Windley reports a talk by Alan Kay: Is Computer Science an Oxymoron?: &#8222;Engineers should read a book about how the Empire State building was done. Including the demolition of the building on the site before, the Empire State building was built in 11 months by 3000 people. We don\u2019t know how to do this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblog"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}