Category Archives: Computer History
Turing Saw the Future of Computing
It’s all about data. Read more
My First Venture in Data and its Analysis
Discovering the benefits of digitization and the data it produces in a 1980 Israeli supermarket. Read more
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Timeline of Modern Computing
Key milestones in the journey from ENIAC to Tesla, from Data Processing to Big Data. Read more
A New History of Modern Computing
A New History of Modern Computing by Thomas Haigh and Paul E. Ceruzzi is a must-read for investors, entrepreneurs, executives, and anyone interested in understanding the technology that is embedded in the lives of most of the world’s population. Read more
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Machines with Souls
The Soul of a New Machine was published 40 years ago, highlighting a time-to-market passion that was not matched by business insight Read more
The Future After the First Telephone Call
The future envisioned after the first phone conversation 145 years ago Continue reading
How Computer Graphics and Big Data Gave Birth to Today’s Artificial Intelligence (AI)
The explosion of breakthroughs, investments, and entrepreneurial activity around artificial intelligence over the last decade has been driven exclusively by deep learning, a sophisticated statistical analysis technique for finding hidden patterns in large quantities of data. A term coined in … Continue reading
Shakey, the World’s First Mobile Intelligent Robot
Developed at the Artificial Intelligence Center of the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) from 1966 to 1972, SHAKEY was the world’s first mobile intelligent robot. According to the 2017 IEEE Milestone citation, it “could perceive its surroundings, infer implicit facts from explicit ones, … Continue reading
Best of 2019: 60 Years of Progress in AI
[January 8, 2019] Today is the first day of CES 2019 and artificial intelligence (AI) “will pervade the show,” says Gary Shapiro, chief executive of the Consumer Technology Association. One hundred and thirty years ago today (January 8, 1889), Herman … Continue reading
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The Cost and Speed of Computing and Communications 1956-2019
The Economist The price of computation today is roughly one hundred-millionth what it was in the 1970s, when the first microprocessors became commercially available (see chart). According to figures collected by John McCallum, a computer scientist, a megabyte of data … Continue reading
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