Monthly Archives: March 2007

Design using function, behaviour, structure

Posted on March 27, 2007 by stalker

Last month, at the Architectural Association, Bill Hillier described how English Heritage often want to reinstate the paths and roads of the historic sites they are trying to preserve. Hillier argued that these sites need new pathways as the way … Continue reading →

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WordPress groupie: blogging, fiddling, loving it

Posted on March 18, 2007 by stalker

My mate Wayne is the kind of programmer who loves to program. I am not. I think of programming as a means to an end. Something I have to do if I can’t find what I need – which, thanks … Continue reading →

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Using patterns to shape our world

Posted on March 9, 2007 by stalker

In the 1990s, Erich Gamma changed the way I thought about software engineering forever! Gamma visited the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne where I was a PhD student, in order to give a seminar on design patterns. The idea of … Continue reading →

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Are computers making us stupid?

Posted on March 1, 2007 by stalker

In 1996, I listened to Lofty Zadeh, the daddy of fuzzy logic, give his keynote speech at the ‘Artificial Intelligence in Design’ conference, Stanford University. He described the excitment of artificial intelligence in the 1950s and how Marvin Minsky, father … Continue reading →

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