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The Tremendous VR and CG Systems—of the 1960s

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The interview transcripts can be downloaded here and here. During a visit to Shannon’s office at the Bell Telephone Laboratories in northern New Jersey, he showed the brothers his creation Theseus. Ivan Sutherland/Computer History Museum Sketchpad represented much more than just a new way to create line art.

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The Strange Story of the Teens Behind the Mirai Botnet

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Enraged that upper-class students were given priority to enroll in a computer-science elective at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey , Paras decided to crash the registration website so that no one could enroll. A Hacker Forged in Minecraft Paras Jha was born and raised in Fanwood, a leafy suburb in central New Jersey.

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