Code Hero Talk & Panel at Open Science Summit 2011

Alex Peake spoke at the Open Science Summit 2011 at the Moutain View Computer History Museum about some of humanity's worst investment decisions: rejecting Demoritus' atomic theory, ignoring Galileo's heliocentric astronomy, Napoleon passing on Fulton's submarine until it was too late for it to rescue him, unfunding Charles Babbage's 1860s Difference Engine and Analytic Engine computers, and educational descrimination against women and other "wrong sorts of people" which withheld mathematics from more than half of humanity despite failing to stop Lady Ada Lovelace from learning math and inventing computer software in 1862.

WATCH ALEX'S TALK AT 0:30 HERE followed by a panel run by Mitch Altman with Alex, Mitch, Jimmy and the Stanford Eterna and Foldit team.

Today's challenges demand that we set minds free and abolish educational discrimination to achieve full literacy starting with code literacy so that everyone can explore the world of code and invent the future.

Alex showed the Hack The Future mentoring event and demoed the Code Hero game including a mission where you help Ada and Charles Babbage construct a 3D replica of the Difference Engine whose replica is actually built and working in its entirety at the Computer Histroy Museum.

A new version of the talk video with clarified visuals and audio is coming soon.