Episode · The Pragmatic Engineer · 2024-12-04

Gergely Orosz & Grady Booch: books mentioned on The Pragmatic Engineer (Dec 2024)

Software architecture with Grady Booch

2 books · With Grady Booch · Listen · Watch on YouTube

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Grady Booch discussed Software Architecture by Mary Shaw and others and The society of mind by Marvin Minsky.

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

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1. 

   Software Architecture

   Mary Shaw; David Garlan · at 53:39 · mentioned 2 times

   Discussed

   “I was heavily influenced by a dear friend of mine Mary Shaw uh she's a professor at Carnegie melon I think she won the national met of Honor under Obama if I'm not mistaken and she wrote this really profound book called software architecture”

   Grady Booch Software architecture with Grady Booch 2024-12-04 Listen at 53:39

   Where to get it

   AmazonListen on Audible
2. 

   The society of mind

   Marvin Minsky · at 1:13:57

   The Society of Mind by Marvin Minsky is a seminal theoretical work that models the human mind as a collection of diverse, interacting agents and capabilities.

   Discussed

   “I built a neuros symbolic architecture we called self and it used the ideas of Marvin Minsky Society of Mind together with Rodney Brooks's notion of subsumption architectures”

   Grady Booch Software architecture with Grady Booch 2024-12-04 Listen at 1:13:57

   Where to get it

   AmazonListen on Audible