"Finally, and perhaps most importantly, it is stressed that artificial algorithms attempt to mimic only the conscious function of parts of the cerebral cortex, ignoring the fact that, not only every conscious experience is preceded by an unconscious process but also that the passage from the unconscious to consciousness is accompanied by loss of information."
The Atari 1200XL was a 8bit HomeComputer running a mos 6502 Processor at 1.79 MHz. When this beautiful machine was launched in 1983 with 64Kb RAM the price was under thousand dollars, but... http://youtu.be/watch?v=JyA5tA5mmYY
$omehow the C64 was much more popular even when specs been almost the same. The difference in BASIC language was less significant for the success. Most likely that competition was won by Commodore because Jack Tramiel took the advice of his grandfather so serious. https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/22449/Atari-1200XL/
1973 #Ethernet as one of the defining information technologies in modern communication was developed at #PARC by Chuck Thackers for #Alto#Computer s. What Bob Metcalf, Butler Lampson, and Dave Boggs built for the #ARPAnet is connecting us all today— via the #Internet, & @fediverse.
Please share: In DC, on Fri, Oct. 20 @9am (& later airing on CSPAN) Princeton's Matt Jones VT's Janet Abbate, Columbia's Matt Connelly, & I are doing a public/free https://mastodon.social/@[email protected] AHA Congressional Briefing on how AI history informs AI risks.
Iconic image of Kay Mauchly (AKA: Kathleen Rita McNulty Mauchly Antonelli), one of the original programmers on the ENIAC during WWII, with husband John Mauchly, ENIAC co-inventor, and Arthur Draper, as they look over the UNIVAC LARC in 1960.
Iconic image of Kay Mauchly (AKA: Kathleen Rita McNulty Mauchly Antonelli), one of the original programmers on the ENIAC during WWII, with husband John Mauchly, ENIAC co-inventor, and Arthur Draper, as they look over the UNIVAC LARC in 1960.
The IBM EA-6B, used for the Navy's EA-6B Prowler, an electronic warfare aircraft. This marked the first time a micro-programmed logic control, implemented with read-only storage, was used in aerospace applications, ca 1960s.
The IBM 5100, one of the first portable computers, combined a typewriter-like electronic keyboard, a 10-keypad for data entry, a 1024-character display, a processing unit with up to 64K positions of main storage, and a tape cartridge for storing data. (1975).
Nancy Gradwell, left, and Bradley Johnson, 8th graders at Philadelphia's Wagner Jr High, listen intently as Mrs, Phyllis Eggleston,
mathematics teacher, explains how to use an IBM 1050 terminal to help solve homework problems, 1966.
Reboot Representation & Pivotal Ventures partnered with McKinsey & Co. on this major, just-released report studying Black, Latina, and Native Americans inclusion & empowerment in information technology.
In keeping with our back-to-school theme this week, here we have an 8th-grade classroom at St. Veronica's school with 40 students seated at tables or desks, each equipped with a Burroughs calculating machine as a math tool, 1955.
CBI Image of the Day: A West Germany radio telescope at Effelsberg, measuring at 300 ft across, was built in the 1970s to monitor telemetry from Germany’s first deep space probe satellite, Helios. Data collected was decoded by a dual-processor minicomputer system from Interdata.
An advanced computer-aided design program, called AD2000, available from Control Data Corp., helps to automate the industrial design and drafting process. It was used to create this automotive component model displayed on a computer graphics terminal (1978).
CBI Image of the Day: The computer-laden fuselage of NASA's flying laboratory, the Galileo II, included dead-reckoning software, created by the Informatics General Corp., which was used to direct the plane's monitoring equipment for experiments, 1985.
CBI Image of the Day: Assembly of the Control Data Corporation series 3000, working with the wiring, and wiring harnesses, at the McGill Building manufacturing building in Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1962.
PACER, Electronic Associates' digital computer, added to their line of analog and hybrid computers. The computer had broad applications in the R&D and process control field, ca. 1970s.
The image is emblematic of the computer industry marketing male gendered/privileged environments, women models, & inuendo & seduction to try to sell computing & software systems.