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Explore Pioneering Software at the Computer History Museum

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the museum chronicles the impact of computing and technological innovation through artifacts and through archived films, photographs, and documents. The programming language and environment was developed at Xerox Parc , in Palo Alto, Calif. Located in Mountain View, Calif., One is David C. Brock is an active IEEE volunteer.

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Learn Docker and Kubernetes With the Turing Pi

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One increasingly popular solution today is to add a container layer to the software stack, giving each application its own temporary, sandboxed environment without needing the resources required for a complete stand-alone virtual machine. The Turing Pi provides centralized power and a built-in Ethernet switch to connect the modules.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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The gadget, roughly the size of a pack of chewing gum, held 8 megabytes of data and required no external power source, drawing power directly from a computer when connected. But Tan reasoned that “if the company just manufactured the player, it would not make a lot of money,” according to a 2005 article in the Straits Times.

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Moore’s Not Enough: ?4 New Laws of Computing

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But digitize the document, and the value creation opportunities are multiplicative rather than additive. But digitize the document, and the value creation opportunities are multiplicative rather than additive. However, if the same retail environment is placed online, many customers can view the store’s products and services.

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A Small Startup Fights Rare Diseases With Big Data

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It's buried deep in documents like PubMed articles and patent filings. Deep Learning can help researchers pull that data out of those documents. And of course, I'm referring to things like scientific papers, PDF documents. At least, that's the strategy of a startup called Vyasa.

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Why Bloat Is Still Software’s Biggest Vulnerability

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In 1995 he wrote an influential article called “ A Plea for Lean Software ,” published in Computer , the magazine for members of the IEEE Computer Society, which I read early in my career as an entrepreneur and software developer. This post is dedicated to the memory of Niklaus Wirth , a computing pioneer who passed away 1 January 2024.

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The Do-or-Die Moments That Determined the Fate of the Internet

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And by mid-1971, program director Lawrence Roberts of the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) was becoming impatient with the slow pace at which ARPA-funded researchers were getting connected. One major problem was the cost and fragility of stringing a dedicated cable from every computer to every terminal. in December of the same year.

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