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Celebrating the Life of Columbia Professor Stephen Unger

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in EE from MIT in 1953 and 1957, respectively. He published three books on the topic, including Controlling Technology: Ethics and the Responsible Engineer. He wrote several papers on ethics and technology, as well as computer science, and he penned articles for IEEE Technology and Society Magazine and The Institute.

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The Essential Vannevar Bush

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Born in 1890 in Massachusetts, he came to prominence as the nation’s top designer of computers while at MIT In the 1930s. Writing in his most famous essay, “ As We May Think ,” published in The Atlantic magazine in 1945, he envisioned that: “A library of a million volumes could be compressed into one end of a desk.”

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Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already

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Best known as a robotics researcher, academic, and entrepreneur, Brooks is also an authority on AI: he directed the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT until 2007, and held faculty positions at Carnegie Mellon and Stanford before that. When are we going to have full (level-5) self-driving cars? I’ve read it.

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IBM’s Fall From World Dominance

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He was therefore perfectly positioned to be the author of the definitive corporate history of the company he used to work for, in a book entitled IBM: The Rise and Fall and Reinvention of a Global Icon , which was published in 2019 by MIT Press. IBM as well keeps shrinking while its competitors are growing. Maybe you can describe it.

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How E Ink Developed Full-Color e-Paper

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Its story began a decade earlier, in 1997, at the MIT Media Lab , when it was created by two students, J.D. Its resolution was simply too low and the colors not bright enough for people who were used to the high resolution of tablet computers or print magazines. From the very beginning, e-paper seemed magical.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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There was a rivalry in Datamation [magazine] advertisements between Xerox’s SDS and DEC,” recalled Alan Kay, who came to PARC as a researcher from Stanford University ‘s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in late 1970. Not just one sheet, but whole books,” said Conway. The computer they wanted was a PDP-10 from Digital Equipment Corp.

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This Harvard Law Professor is an Expert on Digital Technology

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Zittrain conducts research on what’s happening across the sweep of digital technology and writes about his findings in blogs, magazines, and books. Providing free access to books and legal decisions Much of Zittrain’s work looks at ways to make information more widely available. Jonathan L.

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