History & Culture
epub |eng | | Author:Hofstadter, Douglas, Hodges, Andrew

That was not how the world was to see it, and the world was not being entirely unfair. Alan Turing’s invention had to take its place in an historical context, ...
( Category: History & Culture October 10,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-01 | Author:Domscheit Berg, Daniel

De Collateral Murder-video In IJsland begonnen Julian en de anderen de Collateral Murder-video te bewerken. Ter plaatse betrokken waren Birgitta, Rop en twee of drie IJslanders die ons vooral op ...
( Category: Politics & Government October 9,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-10-08 | Author:Nathan L Ensmenger [Ensmenger, Nathan L.]

7 The Professionalization of Programming In the development of professional standards, the computer field must be unrelenting in advocating stringent requirements for professional status, whether these include education, experience, examination, ...
( Category: History & Culture October 8,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Walt Williams

* * * I DON’T THINK GAGE was trying to be a dick. Actually, I take that back. I do believe he was trying to answer my question as succinctly ...
( Category: Arts & Literature October 2,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-01-30 | Author:Grier, David Alan [Grier, David Alan]

32. Computing floor of the Mathematical Tables Project Blanch divided the computing floor into four groups, one for each of the arithmetical operations. The largest group, identified as group 1, ...
( Category: History & Culture September 27,2017 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Bagnall, Brian [Bagnall, Brian]

* * * Commodore Japan’s general manager was Taro Tokai, known as Tony by westerners. Tokai was one of the most important general managers because of his ability to negotiate ...
( Category: Biography & History September 22,2017 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2017-02-27 | Author:Andrew 'bunnie' Huang [Huang, Andrew 'bunnie']

WHY THE BEST DAYS OF OPEN HARDWARE ARE YET TO COME One of the most critical outcomes from my year of soul searching was the realization that the best days ...
( Category: Internet & Social Media September 20,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ellen Ullman

Is Sadie the Cat a Trick? 2003 Photograph by Elliot Ross When I returned from Boston, after talking with Rodney Brooks, I bought a robotic cat. It wasn’t very advanced, ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence September 17,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-15 | Author:Andrew Hodges

* * * * Wynn-Williams did make some progress, but this machine was probably the work of Keen and BTM. * There was more than one kind of Robinson: a ...
( Category: History & Culture September 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Wild Rodeo Nights (lit) [Nights, Wild Rodeo]

What will Carrie say when she sees me again? Would she throw herself in my arms or give me the cold shoulder? He didn’t know but he was about to ...
( Category: Architecture September 14,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-09-29 | Author:Thomas Mullaney

Between Technolinguistic Worlds: Kana, Kanji, and the Ambivalent History of Japanese Typewriting Beginning in the second half of the nineteenth century, China’s neighbor to the east began to wrestle with ...
( Category: Asia September 5,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-26 | Author:Erez Aiden

One of the circle’s favorite examples was the word Volksgeist, “spirit of the people.” Volksgeist was supposed to refer to a nation’s collective consciousness and memory, to what the nation ...
( Category: Social Sciences September 2,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-14 | Author:Thomas J. Watson [Watson, Thomas J.]

Even though IBM was supplying a large proportion of the Defense Department’s electronic brains, I was never much of a cold warrior. Like most things conceived in a panic, the ...
( Category: Professionals & Academics September 1,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-05 | Author:Felix Martin [Martin, Felix]

John Law, before his fall (left, front view)—and after it (right, rear view). (illustration credit 11.1) Law’s System was ingenious, innovative, and centuries ahead of its time. It was even ...
( Category: Economics August 31,2017 )
azw3 |eng | 2016-08-29 | Author:Antonopoulos, Andreas M. [Antonopoulos, Andreas M.]

7.4. Authority by Merit In the early days, people asked, "How will we know which opinions matter if anyone can have an opinion?" The world will come to an end, ...
( Category: Networking & Cloud Computing August 30,2017 )