9 thoughts on “Audio interview with me, me, me”

  2. Who invited literature nuts to this conversation? Anyway, I listened to the recording and I think that Philip sounds as intelligent in person as in writing, which is rare. Philip – since you like publishing your ideas, why not publish it on computer based training (video lecture at least – problem sets and tests are really not necessary) as well as on dead trees? I’m sure many more people would love to see and hear you lecture than are able to get to, into, and pay for the MIT class. In addition I doubt highly it would affect your class attendance as the motivation for people in the class is as much about getting the grade and credit as learning (no offense to the exceptions, sorry.) Good CBT training already exists for particular technologies (TCP/IP networking, Windows Networking, .NET, J2SE, J2EE, XML, SQL, anything you can name). However, there are no core ideas on software enginneering, algorithms, data structures, discrete mathematics, etc. that have been put to CBTs. You should consider filling part of this void and teaching to the masses, not only the elites.

  3. There was a series of video lectures by Philip on the oracle technet sight in early 2000. Despite the low quality of the video stream it gave a good feel for a Greenspun-style lecture.

    Are these available anymore? What would be the licensing involved of running live feeds of current MIT classes?

    Just wonderin…

  5. On recent form (i.e. Philip’s not-so-profound comments on the Spanish elections) I’m guessing that these tapes sound a lot like Frasier re-runs.

  6. Philip: I would also love to see some of those streaming lectures. Pretty good interview, btw. Who is the guy giving the interview and when did you do the interview?

  7. Philip: I would also love to see some of those streaming lectures. Pretty good interview, btw. Who is the guy giving the interview and when did you do the interview?

  8. The streaming lectures have disappeared I fear, casualties of all the broken dreams of the 1990s. Apparently if video is to stream over the Internet it should feature a teenage girl and a pony…

    Who is doing the interviewing? I think the IT Conversations site has some sort of biography of Doug Kaye. He is an A36 Bonanza pilot in the Bay Area so I hope to meet him face-to-face and go for a ride next time I’m out there. [The Bonanza is famous as a machine designed to keep the world from becoming overpopulated with doctors and lawyers :-)]

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