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),
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
