Hồi tưởng về thập niên 80! Cùng khám phá video "Giới thiệu lập trình trên ZX Spectrum" từ năm 1983. Một cái nhìn thú vị về những ngày đầu của lập trình và chiếc máy tính huyền thoại đã định hình nhiều thế hệ lập trình viên.

#ZXSpectrum #Programming #LậpTrình #RetroComputing #MáyTínhCổĐiển #1983 #ComputerScience #KhoaHọcMáyTính #HistoryOfComputing #LịchSửMáyTính

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPUaOS-TXfI

IMO Aspen Movie Map (1981) has still better concepts than google maps & #streetview today.

left video via: https://mprove.de/chrono3d?q=39.19068,-106.81934&z=17.13&r=98&t=69&d=0&s=1&i=1
right: https://www.google.com/maps/place/39%C2%B011'27.1%22N+106%C2%B049'12.3%22W/@39.1909152,-106.8200994,3a,60y,94.01h,95.62t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s5FFPJFs9kWvdhGgmUUmiuQ!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D-5.617753428994192%26panoid%3D5FFPJFs9kWvdhGgmUUmiuQ%26yaw%3D94.00903749570698!7i16384!8i8192!4m4!3m3!8m2!3d39.19086!4d-106.82008?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDUxMy4xIKXMDSoJLDEwMjExNDUzSAFQAw%3D%3D

Notation as a Tool of Thought (1979)

https://www.jsoftware.com/papers/tot.htm

#HackerNews #Notation #as #a #Tool #of #Thought #1979 #Notation #CognitiveTools #HackerNews #Programming #HistoryOfComputing

CBI for Computing, Information and Culture's Tomash Dissertation Fellowship application deadline (ABD req.) January 15th. This competitive fellowship supports a PhD student doing a dissertation focused on the history of computing, software or networking.

#historyofcomputing #historyofsoftware
@histodons
https://cse.umn.edu/cbi/adelle-and-erwin-tomash-fellowship-history-information-technology

Some "Polish-made microcomputers"
'80

1. Merytum I
2. Merytum II
3. Compa 8
4. Elwro 700 (Solum)
5. Elwro 800 jr
6. Neptun
7. Mazovia 1016

#PolishMicrocomputers #RetroComputers #HistoryOfComputing #ComputersOfThePRL #Microcomputers #RetroTechnology #VintageComputers #8085 #U880 #Z80 #6502 #i8086

During Analysis, Design & Architecture Conf I was in a few conversations that involved the history of computing. These are some recommendations on books about it https://www.roundcrisis.com/2018/10/04/recommended-history/

Today, AI is still powered by millions of data workers, both men and women. In Victorian England, many of the same data tasks were performed by "lady computers". Though they were recruited at Cambridge colleges, they got paid as little as £4 per month. Same old story.

Adm. Grace Hopper’s 1982 NSA Lecture Has Been Published https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/08/adm-grace-hoppers-1982-nsa-lecture-has-been-published.html #historyofcomputing #historyofsecurity #Uncategorized #videos #NSA

Adm. Grace Hopper’s 1982 NSA Lecture Has Been Published

The “long lost lecture” by Adm. Grace Hopper has <a href="h... https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/08/adm-grace-hoppers-1982-nsa-lecture-has-been-published.html

I think we are spending way to much energy worrying about big, new AI models and the companies that make them. I worry that we're fighting the last war and missing this one. Check out my most recent post on substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/syntheticreasoning/p/writing-about-ai-is-broken?r=366lm6&utm_medium=ios #historyofcomputing #historyoftechnology #AI #ChatGPT #Innovation

I've launched Synthetic Reasoning, a substack in which I'm writing about generative AI as a historian and a technologist.

This first piece is basically pure history, what I hope is an accessible explanation of where I think we are and how we got here. That's the foundation for thinking strategically about what to do next. #AI #ChatGPT #HistoryOfComputing #HistoryOfTechnology #DH

https://open.substack.com/pub/syntheticreasoning/p/you-are-here?r=366lm6&utm_medium=ios

@joshsusser the history of computing is a history of engineers missing the point of dystopian futures in movies. Terminator, Gattica, Her, the Matrix, Minority Report, Blade Runner, Total Recall...

Who could have predicted that the autism spectrum would play such a decisive role for our species?

"The Computer Girls", published in Cosmopolitan magazine in April 1967 was originally brought back to public attention during @nensmeng's research for his book "The Computer Boys Take Over". For years only the first page was available online. Now the full article has emerged: https://archive.org/details/the-computer-girls-cosmopolitan-magazine-april-1967

http://thecomputerboys.com/

This week's net.wars, "Anachronistics", travels into a younger person's chronological confusion about technology but remains optimistic about our eventual adaptability to a world of computer fakery: https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2024/03/01/anachronistics/ #NetWars #HistoryOfComputing #DeepFakes

Die Deadline rückt näher, darum hier noch mal der Hinweis, sich für unsere Konferenz "Worlds of Digital Labour" in Linz zu bewerben. Bis einschließlich 26. Januar nehmen wir noch Einreichungen an.
Die Konferenz wird dann im September sein. Weiter Infos hier: https://www.ith.or.at/en/59th-ith-conference-worlds-of-digital-labour/

#Help need please #Boost

I'm looking for a copy of the article by Daniel Bobrow: "A Turing Test Passed" ACM SIGART Newsletter, December 1968, pp. 14–15;

I can't find a digital version
#HistoryOfComputing

The article describes an conversation of Daniels boss with #ELIZA (one of the first chatbots) which went something like this

VP: Do you think that I can use the computer this morning?
ELIZA: Why do you ask?
VP: I might be able to make some additional telcomp sales.
ELIZA: Why aren't you sure?
VP: My prospective customers have never seen a demonstration of the system.
ELIZA: Does this mean very much to you?
VP: Of course it does.
ELIZA: You seem very positive of that.
VP: This is ridiculous.
ELIZA: What do you mean this is ridiculous?
VP: Is there any reason why I can't use the computer now?
ELIZA: Tell me more about your prospective customers.
VP: Call me

Note that after that remark the VP left out the period. Therefore, of course, the computer didn't answer him. This so infuriated the VP, who thought I was playing games with him, that he called me up, woke me from a deep sleep, and said:

Why are you being so snotty with me?

What do you mean why am I being snotty to you?

The VP angrily read the dialog that 'we' had been having, and couldn't get any
response but laughter from me. It took me a while to convince him it really was the
computer.