Submitted by bjesiek on Wed, 04/04/2012 - 09:29
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Submitted by bjesiek on Fri, 02/24/2012 - 20:37
"Starring the Computer is a website dedicated to the use of computers in film and television. Each appearance is catalogued and rated on its importance (ie. how important it is to the plot), realism (how close its appearance and capabilities are to the real thing) and visibility (how good a look does one get of it). Fictional computers don't count (unless they are built out of bits of real computer), so no HAL9000 - sorry."
Submitted by cfmcdonald on Wed, 02/22/2012 - 17:22
Our esteemed chair, Tom Haigh, noticed a rather shocking set of stories in the mainstream press today that claimed that a man previously unknown to the computer history community was, in fact, the inventor of e-mail:
Submitted by cfmcdonald on Wed, 12/21/2011 - 12:26
Last year, around this time, I submitted a blog post summarizing the obituaries of a number of major figures in the history of computing who died in 2010. Given the worldwide headlines in response to the death of Steve Jobs two months ago, I think it makes sense to turn that post into a yearly tradition, reminding us of the less-recognized contributors to the history of computing who we have lost. I was, in fact, rather stunned at the number of names turned up by a simple search for stories containing "obituary" and "computer" in the last twelve months in the New York Times. The computing of the 1960s and 70s is now rapidly passing out of the realm contemporary and oral history.Here's what I turned up:
Submitted by mhicks on Tue, 11/08/2011 - 20:30
This year's workshop has now come and gone successfully and thanks are in order for all of the speakers and attendees who made it a success. Tom Misa has offered slides from his keynote talk to be posted here.
Submitted by mhicks on Sat, 11/05/2011 - 00:04
After today's syllabus session at SHOT it seems like an ideal time to remind folks that we have a great repository of syllabi in the history of computing, information, and technology here on the site. Go to www.sigcis.org/syllabi or navigate down to "syllabi" in the bar on the left hand side.
Submitted by cfmcdonald on Mon, 10/24/2011 - 19:23
Apropos of my post a while back on the hidden engineers behind Steve Jobs' recent triumph, video-game historian Benj Edwards has posted an article on MacWorld that provides a nice synthetic account of the origins of the iPod. Edwards covers a number of the major figures responsible for the design and development of the iPod. Tony Fadell (formerly of the General Mag
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