Had Steve Jobs鈥� first company not bought his second, history likely would have been very different. Apple might not exist today. No iPhone. But what could have happened to NeXT?
In many parts of our world today, group communication centers on visual materials built with 鈥減resentation software,鈥� often crafted by a speaker him or herself. As a result, meetings now generally depend on the use of personal computers, presentation software in the guises of product or service and display by digital p
Visitors to the 91自拍 frequently want to know: what was the first computer?
Andrew S. Grove was a seminal figure in the history of the semiconductor industry, and in the story of high-technology industry in Silicon Valley. He passed away on March 21st, 2016. Born in Hungary in 1936, Grove faced, and overcame, profound challenges: A Jewish child who survived German and then Soviet occupations,
Since 2008, over a hundred billion apps have been downloaded from Apple鈥檚 App Store onto users鈥� iPhones or iPads. However, the technology and tools powering the mobile 鈥渁pp revolution鈥� are not themselves new, but rather have a long history spanning over thirty years, one which connects back to the beginnings of softwar
Today a colleague pointed me to a classic in the study of material culture, E. McClure Fleming鈥檚 鈥淎rtifact Study: A Proposed Model.鈥� In this essay, Fleming outlines a systematic process for interrogating artifacts: Proceeding from 鈥淚dentification鈥� and 鈥淓valuation鈥� and on to 鈥淐ultural Analysis鈥� and 鈥淚nterpretation.鈥� Fle
In the early 1950s, a young, enthusiastic and creative electrical engineer named Dudley Buck left the National Security Agency (NSA) for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Buck had worked on some of the first electronic digital computers at the NSA, and in Massachusetts joined the large program to develop