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Monday, 14th January 2013

MIT To Launch Internal Investigation Following Death Of Aaron Swartz

MIT To Launch Internal Investigation Following Death Of Aaron Swartz

The president of MIT said that the school would launch an internal investigation concerning its actions involving a court case against Internet pioneer and activist Aaron Swartz, who committed suicide on Friday.

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Monday, 9th April 2012

The Legacy of Commodore Founder Jack Trameil

Quite a few people have been retroactively credited with the invention of the personal computer. One man who never claimed credit himself, but who would certainly be listed among Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Clive Sinclair, Adam Osborne, and John Roach as original creators of the personal computer industry is Jack Tramiel - who passed away today at…

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Thursday, 22nd December 2011

Jack Goldman (1921 - 2011), Materials Scientist, IT Pioneer

We call it "IT," and the reason is because a physicist first realized that information, like any other subatomic phenomenon, was both a particle and a wave. It was a product unto itself, and Dr. Jacob "Jack" Goldman created the environment for the concept to take root. I know you're thinking Xerox PARC. Actually, I was thinking the Ford Motor…

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Tuesday, 25th October 2011

John McCarthy (1927 - 2011), Believer in Humanity

There are two important concepts first articulated by Prof. John McCarthy of Stanford University, neither of which actually imply that computers will ever evolve to become intelligent, rational creatures. One is that electronic machines can learn functions and processes. Throughout the 56 years since this concept was introduced, it has been…

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Thursday, 13th October 2011

Remembering Dennis Ritchie, Creator of the C Programming Language and UNIX Co-Creator

Dennis M. Ritchie, co-creator of UNIX and father of the C programming language, died this past weekend after a long illness. It's no exaggeration to say that without Ritchie, modern computing would not be what it is today. Often known as "dmr," Ritchie was born in Bronxville, NY in 1941. He studied at Harvard University, initially focusing on…

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Thursday, 6th October 2011

Steve Jobs & Great U.S. Innovators

Steve Jobs became an icon as one of the greatest innovators of the modern age. He follows in a great American tradition of innovation that have built the fundamental building blocks of the U.S. economy. History will be kind to Jobs. Students will read about his accomplishments in their textbooks for decades and perhaps centuries to come. In classic…

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Thursday, 14th April 2011

Dot Obits: Inventor of Game Cartridge

Jerry Lawson, who is responsible for the development of the video game cartridge, died Saturday in Mt. View, California, of a heart attack. Lawson was 70 years old. He was a pioneer not just in video games but as a black engineer in an overwhelmingly white industry. While working as an engineer for Fairchild Semiconductor in the mid-1970s, Lawson…

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Monday, 28th March 2011

Dot Obits: Paul Baran

Well, maybe Paul Baran didn't invent the Internet exactly*, but his work on its forerunner, ARPANET, made it possible. Baran, 84, died yesterday at his home in Palo Alto, according to the New York Times. While working at the RAND Corporation in the early Sixties, Baran outlined a method for dissembling information into "message blocks" in order…

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Friday, 25th March 2011

First Woman to Design Computer Dies

Betty Jean Jennings Bartik, one of the first women in the IT industry, has passed away at the age of 86. Bartik was on the team that programmed and de-bugged the first general-purpose computer, the ENIAC, or Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer. She was one of the female mathematicians, known as "computers," recruited by the United States…

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