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Computing Up – Is progress real?


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21 July 2019



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In this episode of Computing Up, Michael Littman and Dave Ackley discuss the democratic debates and raise the question of whether progress is even possible.




Computing Up Conversations about computation writ large, with Michael Littman and Dave Ackley.
Computing Up Conversations about computation writ large, with Michael Littman and Dave Ackley.

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