Recent content by Damiantgordon

The first use of the term "hacker" in the movies was in 1982 from Tron where Jeff Bridges says "I've been doing a little hacking"

Also I almost included Desk Set from 1957 where Katharine Hepburn tries to break a computer by setting it on fire. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050307/

I know what you are saying, but as mentioned above, the idea of the paper was to show computer science students how hollywood portrays hackers as fodder for good discussion in my teaching and to pass this onto other professors, I was in no way claiming anything as grandiose as a "scientific...

The reason I wrote the paper was simply to identify some good movie clips to show in my lectures to engage my students (and to let other computer science professors/lecturers which movies are good for starting class discussions), so I wanted to identify what factors are accurate in movies (not...