Channel: Computing Lives 


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IEEE Annals of the History of Computing Podcast Series
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Available Episodes (22)
Currently, the World Wide Web is the hottest topic in contemporary computing and popular culture. The Web's meteoric rise is difficult to escape notice. Web stories are plastered in...
Published: Friday, 12 September 2008 08:16:19
Duration: 8:48
Size: 6.06 MB
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Currently, the World Wide Web is the hottest topic in contemporary computing and popular culture. The Web's meteoric rise is difficult to escape notice. Web stories are plastered in...
Published: Friday, 05 September 2008 08:47:01
Duration: 8:35
Size: 5.89 MB
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Currently, the World Wide Web is the hottest topic in contemporary computing and popular culture. The Web's meteoric rise is difficult to escape notice. Web stories are plastered in...
Published: Friday, 29 August 2008 10:28:02
Duration: 10:04
Size: 6.92 MB
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Currently, the World Wide Web is the hottest topic in contemporary computing and popular culture. The Web's meteoric rise is difficult to escape notice. Web stories are plastered in...
Published: Friday, 22 August 2008 09:47:12
Duration: 19:21
Size: 13.29 MB
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This podcast investigates the context for the development of one of the earliest microprocessors, the Intel 4004. It considers the contributions Intel employees, most notably Marcian...
Published: Friday, 15 August 2008 09:11:01
Duration: 26:02
Size: 17.9 MB
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This podcast investigates the context for the development of one of the earliest microprocessors, the Intel 4004. It considers the contributions Intel employees, most notably Marcian...
Published: Friday, 08 August 2008 09:38:30
Duration: 13:48
Size: 9.47 MB
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This podcast investigates the context for the development of one of the earliest microprocessors, the Intel 4004. It considers the contributions Intel employees, most notably Marcian...
Published: Friday, 01 August 2008 09:54:07
Duration: 9:34
Size: 6.57 MB
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This podcast investigates the context for the development of one of the earliest microprocessors, the Intel 4004. It considers the contributions Intel employees, most notably Marcian...
Published: Friday, 25 July 2008 12:05:56
Duration: 16:17
Size: 11.18 MB
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The Cambridge University Mathematical Laboratory was set up in 1937. This article describes the motivation behind the creation of the laboratory and its original terms of reference....
Published: Friday, 11 July 2008 10:27:40
Duration: 19:04
Size: 13.1 MB
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Editor's Note: Brian Randell submitted the following notes on July 9, 1981, in response to seeing the text of the advertisement mentioned by Garry J. Tee in the preceding article. We...
Published: Friday, 06 June 2008 15:20:28
Duration: 20:21
Size: 13.97 MB
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The BINAC, short for Binary Automatic Computer, was developed by John Presper Eckert, Jr. and John William Mauchly during the years 1947-1949 under a contract with the Northrop Aircraft...
Published: Friday, 25 April 2008 13:00:32
Duration: 17:24
Size: 11.94 MB
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In this article, we study the life and work of Sergei Alekseevich Lebedev, one of the world's pioneers in digital computing. Lebedev, working in Kiev, built the MESM, the first Soviet...
Published: Friday, 11 April 2008 09:41:08
Duration: 29:40
Size: 20.38 MB
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Konrad Zuse, creator, in 1941, of the first fully automated, program-controlled, and freely programmable computer for binary floating-point calculations, and later, of the basic programming...
Published: Friday, 28 March 2008 09:59:02
Duration: 21:46
Size: 14.95 MB
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Gordon Earle Moore, a chemist with a PhD from the California Institute of Technology, was a key figure in the development of the semiconductor industry and silicon integrated circuit...
Published: Friday, 21 March 2008 11:50:48
Duration: 25:06
Size: 17.23 MB
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The union of digital computing and video was made possible by high-density integrated memories in the early 1970s. This new technology led Xerox PARC researchers to develop SuperPaint,...
Published: Friday, 08 February 2008 14:03:49
Duration: 13:48
Size: 9.5 MB
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A group of young women college graduates involved with the ENIAC are identified. As a result of their education, intelligence, as well as their being at the right place and at the right...
Published: Thursday, 17 January 2008 10:05:04
Duration: 8:42
Size: 6.0 MB
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The bundling of software and hardware in a single product package predates electronic computers and can be traced back to information-processing pioneer Herman Hollerith in the late...
Published: Friday, 21 December 2007 11:44:39
Duration: 37:26
Size: 25.73 MB
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Peter Eckstein recounts major biographical events, background influences, education, professional experience, and achievements in the life of Control Data Corp.'s founder William C....
Published: Friday, 30 November 2007 14:19:42
Duration: 28:50
Size: 19.83 MB
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In establishing BBN, the founders deliberately created an environment in which engineering creativity could flourish. The author describes steps taken to assure such an environment
Published: Thursday, 25 October 2007 10:36:30
Duration: 40:30
Size: 27.84 MB
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This memoir focuses chiefly on the story of WordStar, the pioneering word processing software for personal computers that was ahead of its time. A series of unfortunate circumstances--personal...
Published: Thursday, 11 October 2007 12:54:43
Duration: 27:31
Size: 18.92 MB
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Peter Eckstein writes a biographical sketch of Jack Kilby, pioneering inventor of ICs.. Article link: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MAHC.2007.10
Published: Tuesday, 18 September 2007 09:21:30
Duration: 30:21
Size: 20.87 MB
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In 1959, two Stanford undergraduate electrical engineering students enrolled in Math 139, Theory and Operation of Computing Machines, and as a final class project, devised the "Happy...
Published: Tuesday, 26 June 2007 13:43:29
Duration: 41:19
Size: 28.41 MB
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