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The World’s First DIY Minicomputer Was Almost Australian
Hackaday· 7 days agoThe EDUC-8, a DIY minicomputer design that came out in “Electronics Australia” magazine, was almost...
Transformational inventor from Jackson, Lynn Conway, 86, dies
WLNS Lansing via Yahoo News· 5 days agoShe kept it all – memos, meeting minutes, notes. The history of her team and her work at IBM...
The history of AI art: it goes back further than you might think
Creative Bloq via Yahoo News· 7 days agoDaedalus and Hero of Alexandria are described as making machines that could write text and play...
‘The bravest person I ever knew’: Transgender computing pioneer Lynn Conway dies at 86
The Independent via Yahoo News· 6 days ago“Mead probably thinks it was 80/20 him; most...finally apologized for firing her 52 years earlier....
Ray Kurzweil on how AI will transform the physical world
The Economist· 2 days agoBY THE TIME children born today are in kindergarten, artificial intelligence (AI) will probably have surpassed humans at all cognitive tasks, from science to creativity. When I first predicted ...
Why losing trans pioneer Lynn Conway feels like a death in the family
The Independent via Yahoo News· 4 days agoTo Silicon Valley, Lynn Conway was the co-inventor of a microchip revolution. But for transgender...
12 books to read about women in STEM
SearchSecurity.com· 7 days agoPeople employed in science, technology, engineering and mathematics occupations are responsible for major advancements in medicine, computing, communication technologies, aerospace engineering ...
Finding the Right VFX Equation for ‘Foundation’ Season 2
Animation World Network· 2 days agoSuch is the case of mathematics professor Hari Seldon, the inventor of psychohistory, which combines...
How Vannevar Bush Engineered the 20th Century
IEEE Spectrum· 22 hours agoIn the summer of 1945, Robert J. Oppenheimer and other key members of the Manhattan Project gathered in New Mexico to witness the first atomic bomb test....
Lynn Conway, microchip pioneer and trans rights advocate, dies at 86
Washington Post· 5 days agoLynn Conway, who ushered in a computer revolution by helping reimagine microchip design — and who...
