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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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How Engineers at Digital Equipment Corp. Saved Ethernet

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I’ve enjoyed reading magazine articles about Ethernet’s 50th anniversary, including one in the The Institute. s networking advanced development group in Massachusetts. Before the end of the day, we had a green light with the understanding that a product would follow if the prototype was successful.

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How the Graphical User Interface Was Invented

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology student Ivan E. Sketchpad users could not only draw points, line segments, and circular arcs on a cathode ray tube (CRT) with a light pen—they could also assign constraints to, and relationships among, whatever they drew. Sutherland built it in 1962 as a Ph.D.

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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. It’s a little hard to do language research and compiler research without having a machine,” said Mitchell.

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