Tom Wujec presents some surprisingly deep research into the “marshmallow problem” — a simple team-building exercise that involves dry spaghetti, one yard of tape and a marshmallow. Who can build the tallest tower with these ingredients? And why does a surprising group always beat the average?
Career analyst Dan Pink examines the puzzle of motivation, starting with a fact that social scientists know but most managers don’t: Traditional rewards aren’t always as effective as we think. Listen for illuminating stories — and maybe, a way forward.
Results Only Work Environment (ROWE).
In the following series, learn all about STL from the great Stephan T. Lavavej, Microsoft’s keeper of the STL cloth (this means he manages the partnership with the owners of STL and Microsoft, including, of course, bug fixes and enhancements to the STL that ships as part of Visual C++).
Alexander Alexandrovich Stepanov (Russian: Александр Александрович Степанов) (born November 16, 1950 in Moscow) is the primary designer and implementer of the C++ Standard Template Library [1], which he started to develop around 1992 while employed at HP Labs. He had earlier been working for Bell Labs close to Andrew Koenig and tried to convince Bjarne Stroustrup to introduce something like Ada Generics in C++.
Лекция «Наибольшая общая мера последние 2500 лет» (часть 1 и часть 2)
Слайды: англ и рус.
Лекция «Преобразования и их орбиты» (часть 1 и часть 2)
Elements of Programming – (November 3, 2010) Speakers Alexander Stepanov and Paul McJones give a presentation on the book titled “Elements of Programming”. They explain why they wrote and attempt to explain their book. They describe programming as a mathematical discipline and that it is extremely useful and should not be overlooked.
