{"id":224,"date":"2011-07-11T10:23:54","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T14:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/?p=224"},"modified":"2014-12-05T14:40:05","modified_gmt":"2014-12-05T19:40:05","slug":"made-possible-by-computer-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/2011\/07\/11\/made-possible-by-computer-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Made possible by &#8230; computer science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a great video about some future possibilities, produced by a well-known glass company: &#8216;A Day Made of Glass&#8230; Made possible by Corning&#8217; (<a href='http:\/\/youtu.be\/6Cf7IL_eZ38'>link<\/a>).  (No endorsement implied!)  As a computer scientist, when I watch something like this, I think about all the cool and challenging software that someone is going to have to write to make all this work.  Of course, it&#8217;s going to take lots of specialties &#8212; materials science, electrical &amp; computer engineering, mechanical engineering to name just a few.  But a huge percentage of what will make all this work is software, and computer science is the major that best prepares you to build these kinds of rich, multi-modal, human-interaction rich software systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a great video about some future possibilities, produced by a well-known glass company: &#8216;A Day Made of Glass&#8230; Made possible by Corning&#8217; (link). (No endorsement implied!) As a computer scientist, when I watch something like this, I think about all the cool and challenging software that someone is going to have to write to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-personal-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions\/225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/csblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}