Does anyone have a transcript? It's a compelling title, but I'd rather not wait for the man in the jester hat to finish speaking before I get access to his point.
It was very nice of them to put this online.
But the audio quality is poor. It seems like when someone high profile (like MIT TechTV) goes to the effort of recording and posting video, they could spend a few more bucks and put a microphone on the speaker (or hook in to whatever audio system that handheld mic was hooked up to).
As a general rule, using the build in mic of a video camera at the back of a room will yield tolerable audio only in very rare conditions (a room that's "dead" acoustically, and a very quiet or nonexistent audience).
As someone who was in this audience two months ago, I am incredibly excited to be starting school at MIT this September and studying computer science. Formal study of CS gets a lot of heat around these parts, but I do think it's one of the best subjects to study for the reasons discussed in the video. Computers are the fastest-changing technology that people have ever witnessed, and there's vast potential for the future of computers and their impact on society.
Great to hear some positive stuff on CompSci.
Seems like recently theres been a lot of news on why its not relevant or unnecessary - which isn't optimistic news for me since thats what I'm going to be studying at University later this year!
Here's a Slideshare, for those who don't want to download the Powerpoint
http://www.slideshare.net/mobile/llimllib/the-future-of-comp...
Finally some good stuff about CS, that also from a highly respected person. Much better than some fizzbuzz programmer thinking how CS and Masters degree suck.
I think CS and robotics will become in greater demand in the future but I think the demand for traditional university CS education will decrease. It is still mostly a "results-only" field, and the Internet has made it even easier to self-educate, quickly and cheaply.