As an undergraduate in physics in the late 60's, he was just a name on a door. Never saw him.
I always thought Desk Set was a bit crazy, but it seems remarkably close to what AI is currently providing (including the warts).
Mostly nostalgia.
I was a Science Reference Librarian at John Crerar Library in Chicago in the early 70's, and this sounds very familiar, although we tended to get a slightly more focused set of questions (and our boss Mr. Quinn was much…
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oxy-fuel_combusti... It's not easy or free. Others are trying to do this as well.
I can remember the days! I suppose as problems grow in size, it's not too surprising that older methods of coping with what seemed like lots of data are still applicable.
A friend of mine wrote a book about what happened in Germany: Scientists under Hitler : politics and the physics community in the Third Reich by Alan Beyerchen. I'm about a third of the way through it, but they mixed…
PostScript's magic is subtle. I once tried writing a PostScript interpreter in ADA. Got far enough to display the turkey example and realized that PostScript code can modify itself and decided I didn't want to go there.
I use an oral sleep appliance fitted by a dentist that specializes in treating sleep problems. Works well, but does take some getting used to.
I think he meant it depends on how you define 'swim'
I remember the Apollo reps moaning that the speed of Motorola's 68k chips weren't keeping up the the x86. I still have an Apollo motheroard with two 68k chips on it -- a work around to enable virtual memory.
Back in the day I worked quite a bit with Knuth's early SAIL (an extended Algol on the PDP-10) implementation of Metafont. They could have used some of the documentation the later WEB versions had as he tended to get…
Ada
You might try worldcat.org (most books as cataloged by libraries are there). Just tried my home town (village in NY state) and the results looked pretty good. Easy to just look at just fiction, biography, etc.…
Those were good times. I got a copy of the SAIL Metafont and managed to port it to Tandem's TAL language (rather like BLISS, but stack oriented on a 16/32-bit machine). There was some serious bit-twiddling in the code…
COBOL isn't older than all of us!
WASM is a nice 'assembly' language to play with.
Our research group used Apollo's for several years and the feeling that they were all one big system (which never failed) was wonderful. Not being pure Unix was the main drawback.
When someone says 'in about 5 years' it means they have no idea when.
My father (Roy E. Hickey) worked for Graflex for many years as an engineer and designed several of the audio-visual products mentioned in the article. He said the company never made money after it moved to Pittsford (a…
This whole discussion reminds me of work we did in the early 80's trying to convert typesetting tapes into TeX/Metafont for display/printing. One the things we tried was converting scanned images into rectangles which…
Another list: https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n82139094/
Being able to embed assembly instructions directly in the code gave much needed access to all the PDP-10 byte manipulation instruction. I loved BLISS, but some had trouble with the pesky dots needed to indicate value of…
There's an article in Wikipedia about a galaxy and its relative distance that touches on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UDF_423
The three day book quarantine cited may have come from this study: https://www.webjunction.org/news/webjunction/test1-results.h..., https://www.webjunction.org/content/dam/WebJunction/Document...
As an undergraduate in physics in the late 60's, he was just a name on a door. Never saw him.
I always thought Desk Set was a bit crazy, but it seems remarkably close to what AI is currently providing (including the warts).
Mostly nostalgia.
I was a Science Reference Librarian at John Crerar Library in Chicago in the early 70's, and this sounds very familiar, although we tended to get a slightly more focused set of questions (and our boss Mr. Quinn was much…
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oxy-fuel_combusti... It's not easy or free. Others are trying to do this as well.
I can remember the days! I suppose as problems grow in size, it's not too surprising that older methods of coping with what seemed like lots of data are still applicable.
A friend of mine wrote a book about what happened in Germany: Scientists under Hitler : politics and the physics community in the Third Reich by Alan Beyerchen. I'm about a third of the way through it, but they mixed…
PostScript's magic is subtle. I once tried writing a PostScript interpreter in ADA. Got far enough to display the turkey example and realized that PostScript code can modify itself and decided I didn't want to go there.
I use an oral sleep appliance fitted by a dentist that specializes in treating sleep problems. Works well, but does take some getting used to.
I think he meant it depends on how you define 'swim'
I remember the Apollo reps moaning that the speed of Motorola's 68k chips weren't keeping up the the x86. I still have an Apollo motheroard with two 68k chips on it -- a work around to enable virtual memory.
Back in the day I worked quite a bit with Knuth's early SAIL (an extended Algol on the PDP-10) implementation of Metafont. They could have used some of the documentation the later WEB versions had as he tended to get…
Ada
You might try worldcat.org (most books as cataloged by libraries are there). Just tried my home town (village in NY state) and the results looked pretty good. Easy to just look at just fiction, biography, etc.…
Those were good times. I got a copy of the SAIL Metafont and managed to port it to Tandem's TAL language (rather like BLISS, but stack oriented on a 16/32-bit machine). There was some serious bit-twiddling in the code…
COBOL isn't older than all of us!
WASM is a nice 'assembly' language to play with.
Our research group used Apollo's for several years and the feeling that they were all one big system (which never failed) was wonderful. Not being pure Unix was the main drawback.
When someone says 'in about 5 years' it means they have no idea when.
My father (Roy E. Hickey) worked for Graflex for many years as an engineer and designed several of the audio-visual products mentioned in the article. He said the company never made money after it moved to Pittsford (a…
This whole discussion reminds me of work we did in the early 80's trying to convert typesetting tapes into TeX/Metafont for display/printing. One the things we tried was converting scanned images into rectangles which…
Another list: https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n82139094/
Being able to embed assembly instructions directly in the code gave much needed access to all the PDP-10 byte manipulation instruction. I loved BLISS, but some had trouble with the pesky dots needed to indicate value of…
There's an article in Wikipedia about a galaxy and its relative distance that touches on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UDF_423
The three day book quarantine cited may have come from this study: https://www.webjunction.org/news/webjunction/test1-results.h..., https://www.webjunction.org/content/dam/WebJunction/Document...