ESP Biography



CHRISTOPHER FRY, Programming Language Designer




Major: CSAIL

College/Employer: MIT

Year of Graduation: Not available.

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Brief Biographical Sketch:

I have worked in and around MIT for decades on making programming easier by developing new languages and development environments. I'm passionate about using technology to help make the world a better place for all of humanity.



Past Classes

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S10874: Why Can't We All Just Get Along? in Splash 2016 (Nov. 19 - 20, 2016)
This is not a class to trick you into learning math by some narrow application to something interesting. It is not a class about big-data or AI (though those technologies can help.) It is not a class about winning friends or getting a date. It is not a class about who to vote for or political activism to lobby congress. It is not a class about science fiction. It is not a class about band-aid solutions that solve 2% of a problem (maybe). It is not a class about religion in any sense. it is not a class about being nice (though that would help too). It is a class about how new (and not too distant) technologies and processes can actually SOLVE the biggest problems facing humanity. Our solutions do not require magical re-education of the whole planet, everyone to agree on everything, or lots of money, but there are things YOU can do in the next decade to help bring about massive positive change. We start with drastically reducing scarcity with next generation 3D printers. We explain how this, along with a better understanding of psychology, can replace competition with cooperation. We describe a new constitution that replaces power-based governments (such as Democracy) with reason based governments (such as Reasonocracy). With these new paradigms in place, we can cure poverty, war, Global Warming and a host of other major problems. We do not have solutions for every problem. But by getting the current big ones out of the way, that gives us resources to work on the rest.