Presentations
2001
- Scientific knowledge: product of a Lost World?
Written for a day school, for the course DD100, 'An Introduction
to the Social Sciences'
Synopsis: this talk was written to explore the relationship
between scientific knowledge and religious knowledge. The main
case material used is a brief history of early paleontology, and
the discoveried of Anning, Buckland, Mantell, and Owen. (Downloads:
presentation in PDF;
presentation in PowerPoint.)
2000
- Agents, knowledge, and social work: how people interact
with complex systems
Synopsis: this talk is a refinement of the Luigi talk,
based on more definite results. It also starts to explore some
of the wider theoretical issues for people's interaction with
agent systems. (Downloads: presentation
in PDF; presentation
in PowerPoint.)
1997
- Syntonicity and the psychology of programming
Written for the Psychology of Programming Interest Group annual
conference
Synopsis: this talk was written to argue the case for
the 'syntonicity hypothesis', that people try (in part) to understand
the behaviour of programs by identifying with them. (Downloads:
presentation in PDF;
presentation in PowerPoint;
paper
in HTML.)
1995
- Luigi and other agents, or, How agents can assist collaboration
Synopsis: this talk gives an overview of the approach
to agency that we were taking in 1995, namely from a fairly psychological
perspective. (Downloads: presentation
in PDF; presentation
in PowerPoint.)
- Pride and prejudice: Four decades of Lisp
Written for an Open University workshop on the choice of programming
languages.
Synopsis: this talk was written to argue that the Lisp
family of languages had some significant advantages for teaching
programming, including its simple syntax and use of many different
paradigms rather than just one. (Downloads: presentation
in PDF; presentation
in PowerPoint; paper
in HTML.)
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