Go Do It With Goby
Posted on November 21, 2009 - Filed Under Misc., Tech & Science | Leave a Comment
Sometimes I feel like a little kid on weekend: “Mom, I’m bored, what can I do?” Often my wife and I pore over the broadsheets or dive into our dogeared hiking guides. Sometimes we sail off into the uncharted bitstreams of Google, clicking through page after page of irrelevant links. Point is, we sometimes waste [...]
Read More..>>Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age
Posted on November 14, 2009 - Filed Under Video, Tech & Science | Leave a Comment
Here is an interview we did with our friend author Kurt Beyer, who has just published “Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age” (MIT Press www.admiralgracehopper.com). It is the story of a woman who broke the glass ceiling in the 1940s as second in charge of the room-sized top secret computer at Harvard [...]
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