The Death of Computing Debate                                  Neil McBride

 

 

 

Welcome to my death of computing debate page.

 

 

The main debate occurred in the Times Higher Education Supplement:

 

Erase old programme and launch new version.   Neil McBride   THES Feb 9th 2007 p 14

 

Letters by James Davenport, Robert Manderson, Mahesan Niranjan and Andy Hopper appeared  in THES Feb 16th 2007 p15.

 

Yorick Wilkes et al replied in THES Feb 23rd 2007, p14, together with a letter by Mike Holcombe on p15

 

Two letters appeared in subsequent weeks.

 

 

 

 

 

A related article appeared on the British Computer Society Webpage: http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=ConWebDoc.9662

 

 

Various debates occurred on SlashDot and other Internet locations.

 

 

 

Thanks to all of you who emailed me.

 

 

 

 

This page provides access to

 

An article written for the UKAIS Annual Conference in Manchester:

 

McBride, N. (2007) The Death of Computing UKAIS  University of Manchester, 11-12 April 2007. [PDF]

 

An unpublished reply to Y.Wilkes et al:

 

McBride,N. (2007) Dear Professors.  Unpublished. [PDF]