The Computer in the Mirror

Computer science seems to be moving rapidly into the social sciences, not to build machines that simulate our actions but to hold up a mirror to our lives. The Web extra at http://youtu.be/mz2UiSn-oZk is an audio podcast of authors David Alan Grier and Erin Dian Dumbacher, in which they discuss how computer science seems to be moving rapidly into the social sciences, not to build machines that simulate our actions but to hold up a mirror to our lives.