Moshe Vardi (🔗, 🔗, 🔗), the Karen Ostrum George Distinguished Service Professor in Computational Engineering at Rice University, and a multi-award-winning force in theoretical computer science, joins Michael and Dave in a wide-ranging conversation about robustness and resilience in computer science, engineering, and society at large.

Moshe's talk "Lessons from Texas, COVID-19, and the 737 Max" is online (🔗, 🔗).

[Cover based on an image used by permission of Moshe Vardi]

Episode Note: This conversation was recorded in August 2024 but is only becoming available now. Computing Up regrets and apologizes for the extended delay!

Dr. Joy Lisi Rankin (🔗, 🔗, 🔗, 🔗), an author, historian, and academic, joins Michael and Dave in a fast conversation about the history of computing and its systemic biases from the '60s to the techbros of today, and much more.

[Cover based on an image used by permission of Joy Rankin]

Note: This conversation was recorded in April 2024 but is only becoming available now. Computing Up regrets and apologizes for the extended delay!

Cognitive scientist and psychologist Professor Steve Sloman of Brown University (🔗, 🔗, 🔗)
joins Michael and Dave in a fun romp through connectionism, collective cognition, the
illusion of understanding, and much more.

Also, Dave illustrates his illusion of understanding of a bicycle in a true back of the envelope sketch --

[Episode cover based on image used courtesy of Steven Sloman]