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By aweissberger , 22 March 2016

Andy Grove, ex-Intel CEO & Silicon Valley icon, dies at 79

There are several excerpted articles and quotes from those that worked for or with Andy Grove at Intel: San Jose Mercury article by Steve Johnson (edited for clarity and conciseness by Alan J Weissberger):

By ceruzzi , 4 April 2008

"Cybernetics is the Universal Solvent of Technology"

Those words were spoken by the late Professor W. David Lewis, of Auburn University, discussing a talk I had given about the relationship of computing to aerospace. We all know the corollary: if you discover a universal solvent, in what container can you hold itFor myself, working at the National Air and Space Museum, this paradox came home forcefully when Ronald D.

By ceruzzi , 19 March 2012

The Sweet Spot

PC World recently ran an interesting piece about vintage DP equipment still being used on a daily basis, for practical purposes. They even found someone using punched card accounting equipment.

By fwithington , 14 November 2015

Amdahl Recollection

gene-amdahl On 11/13/2015 the NY Times printed the obituary of Eugene Amdahl, which prompted this recollection of him. His revolutionary attack on IBM with plug-compatible high-end computers occurred at the time I was most involved in industry forecasting for AD Little.

By ceruzzi , 16 April 2008

What we don't know

An obituary in a recent Washington Post brought back a flood of memories for me, and reminded me of a topic I had been meaning to discuss but had put aside. Samuel S.

By ceruzzi , 25 February 2008

Introduction

At first I assumed that everyone out there knows who I am, but perhaps I had better introduce myself. I am Paul Ceruzzi, Curator of Aerospace Computing and Electronics at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, in Washington, D.C.

By ceruzzi , 26 March 2008

Moore's Law, Steve Case, and YouTube

Moore’s Law is an empirical observation—that the density of computer memory chips doubles about every 18 months, and it has been doing so for the past four decades. Magnetic storage capacity, and to a less-regular extent, processor speeds and telecommunications bandwidth have also been increasing exponentially in a complementary fashion.

By mols , 28 November 2008

Bell Telephone Antwerp's American Ways

While in the just-over hectic fortnight spent at pre-preparing for a project proposal with the FNRS, the Belgian funding agency for scientific research, I got the sad news that Nicolas Rouche, one of the Belgian pioneers who had helped our research on the Machine Mathématique IRSIA-FNRS had died une