"Before, I kind of thought of computer science was potentially an isolating field where I'd work by myself all day, but actually you get to work with other people and get exposed to different ideas," Ms. Khan said.
He shook his head at the thought of computer-generated play lists.
In the opera we are simply told about Brundle's eating habits in one of those clunky, offstage choruses, voicing the thoughts of the computer.
But then she surveys the alternative sources of political salvation -- "economic thought, military thought, good use of computer science and technology" -- and gently mocks them: "So the nations need these things, but they do not need the heart?
I had an awfully tight deadline when Kelly won her second gold medal at the Olympic Games in Athens, but I never panicked about the thought of my computer stopping, my telephone line not connecting or my keyboard being stuck.
NASA's engineers would famously rely on the speed of their fingers on the slide-rule when re-calculating trajectories for the Apollo missions, and the thought of a computer in the average family home, let alone in someone's back pocket, seemed suited to science fiction.
Last year Johnson, founder of the online payments company Braintree, starting making news when he threw $100 million behind Kernel, a startup he founded to enhance human intelligence by developing brain implants capable of linking people's thoughts to computers.
In an email exchange, Narayanan offered his thoughts on the changing dynamics of computer science.
But for everyone else, here are the thoughts of someone whose first computer was an Apple III, and who has studied, written about and even worked for Apple literally since the day it began.
Arthur Dent, the only human to survive the destruction of his home planet, learns about Deep Thought, a computer of mind-boggling magnitude constructed with the purpose of discovering the ultimate meaning of life, the universe and everything.
