talk with r.w. lawler and oliver g. selfridge.

" ...von Foerster said it very well, "The hard sciences appear hard because they tackle soft problems. The soft sciences face the harder problems."

another educational paper: "why today's computer don't learn the way people do" by william j. clancey what do you learn when you learn that you learn that's how the title of the symposium sounded to me when i was reading it first. but, claro, you should read here: what can we learn about learning by teaching machines to learn. almost a match, just a slide difference.

regarding to nytimes brian kernighan is now teaching over there.