The year was 1970, not a banner year for starting a company, for it was the middle of a major recession. Unexpected events that further complicated our progress seem to be, even in retrospect, virtually statistically impossible. Those complications were coupled with the challenge of developing new semiconductor, packag
Thirty years ago, the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center created, over a relatively short period, a paradigm shift in computing. Many of the technologies that make today's personal computers attractive, including high-quality graphical user interfaces, window systems, networked distributed computing, and laser printing, w
Vint Cerf will place the Internet in perspective for the 21st Century, discussing its current scale and growth rates, the new applications it is being adapted to support, the appearance of Internet-enabled appliances, and the need for a new version of Internet Protocol to allow the Net to grow well beyond its current s
In the summer of 1955, Marvin Minsky, Nathaniel Rochester, Claude Shannon and John McCarthy proposed a summer workshop on artificial intelligence to be held at Dartmouth in the summer of 1956. It was hoped that the workshop would bring in new ideas and make substantial progress on the AI problem.
This non-technical talk is profusely illustrated with clips from 2001 and current research and sheds new light on key moments of the film. You will never see the film the same way again.
The Denelcor HEP was a uniform shared memory multiprocessor that used fine-grain multithreading to tolerate memory latency, synchronization latency, and even functional unit latency. Six systems were delivered to customers during the years 1981-1985. This talk will describe the evolution, innovations, and disasters
Once upon a time... Java, whose original name was Oak, was developed as a part of the Green project at Sun. It was started in December '90 by Patrick Naughton,Mike Sheridan and James Gosling and was chartered to spend time (and money!) trying to figure out what would be the 'next wave' of computing and how we might ca
In response to government requests, IBM Research designed a system for a very large data processing application, known as the HARVEST system, including Stretch, which was delivered to the National Security Agency in the early 1960s. The combined Stretch-HARVEST Project created a milieu for developing new technologies,
Tony Sale will discuss his work in rebuilding the wartime Colossus code-breaking computer and the development of the Museums at Bletchley Park to present to the public its outstanding code breaking technologies. He will also address the importance of computer conservation and restoration activities in the United Kingdo
Take a walk down memory lane with cartoonist Rich Tennant, author of the cartoon series The 5th Wave. His extensive library of high tech cartoons dating to the late 1980s chronicles the evolution of the computer industry and its impact on society. Using subjects ranging from mainframes to pocket PCs, to computers in ou
