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Index to Bemer's Computer History Vignettes The man who invented ASCII for IBM recounts some interactions of the early days of the Computer Industry (tags: computer history industry ibm amdahl unisys digital shortcut:computer) Lenel Systems International (tags: UofR security card access shortcut:security) Matrox DigiSuite (Real Time video) RealTime editing FX board (tags: video capture shortcut:video)…

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In this episode we discover the economics that drive the so-called ‘News Business’. Apparently up until 1968-69 the networks ran their news divisions in the public interest as dictated by the FCC. Everything changed when CBS with Don Hewitt at the helm created “60 Minutes”, which turned a profit for the news division. It was…

Borrowed from the podcast of “This American Life” #326. Full attribution is a good thing. Mystery Hunt @ MIT. New Puzzles keep coming. There are no instructions but there is an answer. However in real life, outside of MIT, most problems don’t have an answer. Thirteen and half straight hours, 30 straight hours. Dave tells…

After posting the show and listening to it some thoughts occured to me. Stuff I would have included if it wasn’t boring or made the show go too long would have included: References to the history of  Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research References to Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert’s book: Perceptrons The role of AI Research…