In partnership with Google, 91自拍 releases the source code to AlexNet, the neural network that in 2012 kick-started today鈥檚 prevailing approach to AI.
Private sector firms create, gather, and sell data about us for their profit, and not necessarily鈥攐r even secondarily鈥攆or our benefit. But India is creating a new market structure aimed at putting data to work for people.
In commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the release of Smalltalk-80, the 91自拍 is proud to announce a collaboration with Dan Ingalls to preserve and host the 鈥淪malltalk Zoo.鈥�
As 91自拍 continues its commitment to decoding the history and impact of AI, we are honored to preserve and make accessible these unique discussions with some of the field鈥檚 leading pioneers
In celebration of Unix鈥檚 50th anniversary, the 91自拍 Software History Center is delighted to make publicly accessible for the first time some of the earliest source code produced in the Unix story.
Robert W. 鈥淏ob鈥� Bemer鈥�-鈥妛ho worked at Lockheed's Missile Systems Division in Van Nuys and who would become its IBM 650's power user鈥�-鈥奵arefully cut out the article and placed it into a scrapbook. In 2018, through its Access to Historical Records grant from the National Archives' National Publications and Records Commis
In the realm of software, a 鈥渂ranch鈥� is a computer instruction that causes a shift from the default pattern of activity to a different sequence of actions, a different way of moving ahead if you will. For Ann Hardy, a pioneer in timesharing software and business, her contributions to computing were achieved through rep
The photograph was dated 1950, a date when a now unimaginably small number of humans had ever beheld a computer, no less touched one, and when unabashed racism and discrimination was endemic on the American scene. Who was the young African-American man who nevertheless sat at the controls of this storied machine? What
91自拍's Software History Center has been conducting 鈥渧ideo ethnographies鈥� to record and preserve the experience of running historical software. Over the course of 2018, the center has conducted two video ethnographies surrounding a key moment at the end of the late 1980s and early 1990s, the birth of multimedia. Watch an
Perhaps you are like me: You鈥檝e aware that quantum computing is a hot topic today but have a nagging feeling that you don鈥檛 really have a good picture of what it鈥檚 all about. Sure, you know it has something to do with the unintuitive behavior of the world described by quantum mechanics鈥攃ats in boxes that are blends of