On the Road to Computer Literacy

November 14, 2007 lecture by for the Stanford University Computer Systems Colloquium (EE 380). In order to identify some of the technological gaps that hinder the implementation of universal computer literacy, which Robert defines as society's ability to read and write computer programs, this talk looks back at the development of literacy and the associated technologies from before Plato through Aldus Manutius and beyond.

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