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Here’s the “revised and reimagined transcript of that talk” that Richard P. Gabriel gave on Design as his Wei Lun Public Lecture at the Chinese
University of Hong Kong.
Picture a system so large it cannot be comprehended. Can such a system be “designed” in any conventional sense? Will machines help design it? Will it help design itself? How will it keep running? Will it be alive? The foundations of computing are about to change. In this talk, Richard P. Gabriel explores why and how.