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10 Lessons From the Legacy of Apple’s Steve Jobs

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Jobs also redefined what a high-tech corporate campus should look like, according to a 2011. One of the final products he pitched was Apple Park , the company's corporate campus in Cupertino, Calif. On its 25 October 2005 cover, Time magazine hailed Jobs as "the man who always seems to know what's next." IEEE Spectrum article.

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IBM’s Fall From World Dominance

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Census, the mainframe computer, legitimizing the person computer, and developing the software that beat the best in the world at chess and then Jeopardy. Joining me to talk about it—and IBM's other pivots, past and future—is a person uniquely qualified to do so. Steven Cherry Jim, IBM wasn't the first to personal computers.

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One Way to Stop the Social Spread of Disinformation

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An article describing how the platform works was published in the September issue of IEEE Communications Magazine. “If His Vodafone team worked on technologies that would limit the use of personal data for advertising and “eyeball-grabbing, because they are very disruptive and can incentivize the spread of disinformation.

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The Sneaky Standard

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Personal computing has changed a lot in the past four decades, and one of the biggest changes, perhaps the most unheralded, comes down to compatibility. To this day, PCI slots are used to connect network cards, sound cards, disc controllers, and other peripherals to computer motherboards via a bus that carries data and control signals.

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

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Networks that link personal computers in offices. When the center opened in 1970, it was unlike other major industrial research laboratories; its work wasn’t tied, even loosely, to its corporate parent’s current product lines. A high-speed network that connects computers, printers, and other peripherals in an office or building.

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Designing the First Apple Macintosh: The Engineers’ Story

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In 1979 the Macintosh personal computer existed only as the pet idea of Jef Raskin, a veteran of the Apple II team, who had proposed that Apple Computer Inc. When you have one person designing the whole computer, he knows that a little leftover gate in one part may be used in another part.” It’ll never work.’

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A Small Startup Fights Rare Diseases With Big Data

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That looks like an early attempt at finding dark data at this corporate level. What's the connection between Hindu mythology and contemporary data analytics? So there's a personal reference there, but then also a reference to the activity of knowledge compilation. Chris Bouton: Yeah, that's going back a ways now.