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By aweissberger , 26 May 2013

Bob Metcalfe's Closing Keynote at Ethernet Innovation Summit - May 23, 2013, CHM in Mt View, CA

Bob Metcalfe's key points on the Ethernet Innovation Summit are summarized in this article:

http://community.comsoc.org/blogs/alanweissberger/bob-metcalfes-closing-keynote-ethernet-innovation-summit-may-23-2013-chm-mt-vi

40 years of Ethernet history discussed during day one; day two featured "movers & shakers" talking about current and future market trends and technologies.
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Metcalfe's closing keynote talk along with the Q & A session can be viewed at:

By stein , 23 May 2013

Going Once, Going Twice...A Working Apple 1

Apple_I-300Have you been longing for a working Apple 1 computer? Or maybe a reproduction of a Pascaline?

By aweissberger , 11 May 2013

Inventor Ted Hoff's Keynote @ World IP Day- April 26, 2013 in San Jose, CA

Introduction

The World IP Day program was to promote and celebrate the many benefits of intellectual property in San Jose and the SF Bay Area. San Jose and Silicon Valley lead the nation in patent generation and the city co-hosted this West Coast event to celebrate the contributions of innovators and creators worldwide.

By Nathan Zeldes , 9 April 2013

A Wonderful Adventure in Exhibition Space

Somehow my career has repeatedly led me into doing unexpected and wonderful things.

One such piece of serendipity has been the role I landed at the Jerusalem Science Museum as the curator of an exhibition in honor of Alan Turing. This project took a year and half, and gave me the occasion to work with some amazing people at the museum, interact with many more from around the world, and learn so much about that tragic genius, Alan Turing, of which I wrote here before.

By Nathan Zeldes , 8 April 2013

Alan Turing’s Earthshaking Philosophical Insight

Being the curator of the Alan Turing Year exhibition at the Jerusalem Science Museum, I was invited to sit on a panel dedicated to Turing’s legacy at the ICON Science Fiction, Imagination and The Future festival in Tel Aviv. My talk there was well received, and touches on some interesting truths, so I decided to share its content here. I hope you enjoy it as much as I have!

By aweissberger , 13 March 2013

CHM lecture: IBM Fellow Grady Booch on Computing: The Human Experience

Introduction:

In this informative March 11, 2013 lecture at the Computer History Museum (CHM), Grady Booch asked and tried to answer this question:  "What does it take to make "sentient" devices (that can feel, sense,  think and reason) out of silicon and software?"

By stein , 6 February 2013

The Day IBM Let Married Women Work

It's hard to imagine not being able to work at IBM if you're a woman who happens to be married, but  Gizmodo has published a memo from January 10, 1951  that discusses a "temporary modification" of IBM's personnel policy—yes, it finally allowed female employees to continue working once they were married. It says: 

Effective immediately and until further notice:

By aweissberger , 18 February 2013

Using Dense Social Networks to Progress a Brilliant Career in Computer Science!

Introduction

The February 10, 2013 Stony Brook (SBU) Northern CA Alumni Association meeting featured a very informative and enlightening talk by Ike Nassi, PhD (1974 Computer Science) about what he learned at SBU, the friends he made there, and use of his social network to further his career.

By aolley , 31 December 2012

The Turing Centenary - In Review

Turing Year Logo As 2012 closes, so does the Turing Centenary Year. The hundredth anniversary of Alan Turing's birth prompted many events, conferences and talks dedicated to Turing. A large list of such events was compiled by the Turing Centenary website.

By aolley , 25 January 2011

"Go away kid you bother me..."

Today, January 25th 2011, marks the first anniversary of Herb Grosch's death.

Herb Grosch - a wild duck

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By aweissberger , 6 January 2018

Tribute to radio and wireless transmission inventor Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla, whose name Elon Musk chose for his electric car company, was on the cover of Time magazine in 1931 for his achievements.  Unfortunately, he died a poor man in 1943 after years devoted to projects that did not receive adequate financing.  Although the main Tesla lab building on Long Island, New York is being restored by a nonprofit foundation — the Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe — the World System broadcast tower he built there was torn down for scrap to pay his hotel bill at the Waldorf Astoria in 1917.

By jcortada , 26 April 2018

Are Americans in danger of losing their Internet?

It’s hard to imagine life without the Internet: no smart phones, tablets, PCs, Netflix, the kids without their games. Impossible, you say? Not really, because we have the Internet thanks to a series of conditions in the United States that made it possible to create it in the first place and that continue to influence its availability. There is no law that says it must stay, nor any economic reason why it should, if someone cannot make a profit from it.

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