Tuesday, July 10, 2018

Ultimate Computer Science Reading List: Don't Even Think of Studying Comp-Sci Without Reading All These Books!


  1. Geeks Bearing Gifts: How the Computer World Got this Way by Ted Nelson
  2. Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can't Get a Date by Robert X. Cringely
  3. Tools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology by Howard Rheingold
  4. Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas by Seymour Papert 
  5. What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry by John Markoff 
  6. Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution by Steven Levy
  7. The Children's Machine: Rethinking School In The Age Of The Computer by Seymour Papert 
  8. Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Petzold
  9. Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter 
  10. Possiplex: Movies, Intellect, Creative Control, My Computer Life and the Fight for Civilization by Ted Nelson
  11. The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography by Simon Singh
  12. Glut: Mastering Information through the Ages by Alex Wright
  13. Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges

Tuesday, December 12, 2017

Colon Cancer Podcast Interview

I was interviewed by Lee Silverstein for The Colon Cancer Podcast. You can listen to the interview here: http://thecoloncancerpodcast.com/082/

Sunday, October 29, 2017

Saturday, October 21, 2017

Proton Beam Therapy For Terminal Cancer

A new video message about "Proton Beam Therapy", an exciting and high-tech cancer treatment.

Friday, September 29, 2017

I was interviewed by a New York radio station, WBAI.

Thursday, September 21, 2017

Monday, June 05, 2017

The Future World of Work: Podcast interview with Mark Fonseca Rendeiro

Mark Fonseca Rendeiro interviewed me again for his Realities Podcast. This time we talked about what work and living will be like in the near future (10-20 years from now)

Please listen here and leave a comment on Mark's blog:
http://realitiespodcast.com/2017/rlts-13/

Tuesday, May 16, 2017

Education at Home: Podcast interview with Mark Fonseca Rendeiro

Mark Fonseca Rendeiro interviewed me for his Realities Podcast. We discussed homeschooling, my experiences at school and university, what the future of education and work are likely to be.

Please listen here and leave a comment on Mark's blog:

http://realitiespodcast.com/2017/rlts-012/