The late 1980s and early 1990s buzzed with corporations and startups trying to develop portable computers that used a pen as the means of interaction. By late 1993, every one of these efforts had failed. Though running out of funding, one of these startups, Palm Computing, went on to launch the Pilot organizer and Palm
Charlie Sporck examines the genesis and history of the semiconductor industry in California's Silicon Valley. He relays personal stories of his experiences with the people and personalities behind the advancements and setbacks that brought Silicon Valley into being.
Dr. Eric Schmidt, Chairman and CEO of Google Inc., examines a wide range of issues relative to leadership in technology, including the economics of innovation; the inevitability of network effects; and the second system syndrome. He also offers some observations on how the next generation of the Internet may take shape
The film was produced by the InCA and funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. A shortened version airs nationwide on PBS television Tuesday, November 27 at 11 pm in all US time zone.
Stump the Professor! Don't miss this opportunity to ask Don Knuth anything and everything you ever wanted to know about computer programming. He will spontaneously answer all questions posed by the audience.
What is The Real Virtue in Virtual Reality?
Early developers and proponents of the computer mouse relay insider stories of how the concepts came about and were implemented.
Smalltalk-80, the language from which Squeak is derived, traces its roots to the famous beanbag chair culture of Xerox PARC in the 1970s. Developed by a team headed by Dan Ingalls, Smalltalk was to be the supporting software environment for Alan Kay's visionary portable and networked Dynabook computer -- a concept that
Linus Torvalds, the creator of the operating system phenomenon Linux, tells the story of how he went from writing code as a graduate student in Helsinki in the early 1990s to becoming an icon for open source software by the end of the decade.
Mitch Waldrop, brings us the fascinating story of JCR Licklider and "The Revolution that Made Computing Personal. "Licklider may well have been one of the most influential -- and least known -- people in the history of computer science. As a division director in the Pentagon's Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA),
