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Jean Bartik speaks with Google employees - 0 views

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Jean Bartik First computer programming

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Danny Patterson on 04 Nov 10

Jean Jennings Bartik, one of the first computer programmers in the nation speaks to Google associates after saying that if she could choose to work anywhere she would pick Google.

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Scientists create organic 'molecular computer' - 0 views

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molecular electronics computing biotech

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Bacterial computers move towards feasibility - 0 views

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Gideon Burton on 03 Nov 10

I loved the comment explaining why E.Coli is used for such experiments (because it is "the 'open source' biology SDK."

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A Logic Named Joe (MemeMachineGo!) - 0 views

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Analysis of A Logic Named Joe

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Gideon Burton on 05 Nov 10

Someone has very nicely identified specific elements of Leinster's 1946 story that correlate to computers and digital culture today.

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Alan Turing: a short biography - 5 - 0 views

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Turing was captivated by the potential of the computer he had conceived. Although his 1936 work had shown the absolute limitations of the computable, he had become fascinated by what Turing machines could do, rather than by what they could not. He had long abandoned his youthful expectations of finding free will or free spirits through quantum mechanics. His later thought was strongly determinist and atheistic in character. And by the end of the Second World War he had turned against the tentative idea that there were steps of 'intuition' in human thought corresponding to uncomputable operations. Instead, he held that the computer would offer unlimited scope for practical progress towards embodying intelligence in an artificial form.
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Converging on Microsoft: Cloud Storage Divided By National Boundaries | Network World - 0 views

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digiciv cloud computing

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Interesting problem with cloud computing. Could it affect trade relationships?

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BBC News - Cloud computing for business goes mainstream - 0 views

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Brandon McCloskey on 27 Oct 10

A good article about how businesses are catching on to the idea of cloud computing.

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IEEE Spectrum: Learn Like A Human - 1 views

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Computer imitation of human brain

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Brenda Laurel - Computers as Theatre « Blog 2.0 - 0 views

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digital humanities theory drama theater UXD interaction

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Computational Thinking - 2 views

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computational thinking powerpoint

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Gideon Burton on 16 Jan 12

Suggested by Skyler Young

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Linguists, robots, or aliens? - 0 views

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google translate language linguistic computer robot

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Madeline Rupard on 21 Sep 10

Flipping back to our conversation about getting computers to understand our language, this google video explains the very interesting method which Google Translate utilizes for understanding human language.

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Ada Lovelace - The Babbage Engine | Computer History Museum - 0 views

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interesting...it talks about Babbage, but it also talks about Ada Lovelace and shows how women were involved in the mathematics and pre-computer world of their time.

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Overview - The Babbage Engine | Computer History Museum - 0 views

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Babbage embarked on an ambitious venture to design and build mechanical calculating engines to eliminate the risk of human error in the production of printed tables. The 'unerring certainty of machinery' would solve the problem of human fallibility. His work on the engines led him from mechanized arithmetic to the entirely new realm of automatic computation. Tabular errors provided a practical stimulus. But this was not his only motive. He also saw his engines as a new technology of mathematics.
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It was not only the grindingly tedious labor of verifying a sea of figures that exasperated Babbage, but their daunting unreliability. Engineering, astronomy, construction, finance, banking and insurance depended on printed tables for calculation. Ships navigating by the stars relied on printed tables to find their position at sea. The stakes were high. Capital and life were thought to be at risk.
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NSG IT World: History of Computers - 0 views

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I have had a lot of fun with this. There is a new ward callendar and directory that are far easier to use and add to then the old calendars and are far more efficent. Also, as a Ward Executive Secretary it allows me to get on to a large chunk of the MLS enabling me to get most of my work done without having to kick the Ward Clerk off of the churches computers.

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Trevor Cox on 26 Oct 10

So cool! I love this. We just went over all this in church. You gotta love having the best calling!

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Ray Kurzweil - technology will develope human evolution - 1 views

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Shaun Frenza on 26 Oct 10

Very interesting talk on the growth of computers and computing power - its evolution - and how it will help us to evolve. All in all a great site to learn about our digital culture!!!!

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Wearable computer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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It sounds like science fiction! LOL

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Plover: Freeing Stenography | Geek Feminism Blog - 0 views

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open source software stenography

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overlap between the stenographic and computer geek worlds is bafflingly small, considering how vital efficient text entry is to virtually every tech field
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on-commercial applications for stenographic technology.
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into any X window using a $45 off-the-shelf keyboard.
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Steno is the only text input system that’s functionally equivalent to conversational human speech.
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wearable computing is unlikely to really take off until we get the head-mounted display issue worked out, and I don’t currently have any idea of how to make that happen on a practical level.
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could be attached to thighs, belly, biceps, or wherever,
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- Bri Zabriskie on 13 Oct 10
  
  initial reaction? weird, weird weird weird!
  
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phonetic system in your muscle memory.
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- Bri Zabriskie on 13 Oct 10
  
  which is why TypeWell which expands words when you type all the consonants is so much easier to remember. Plus you can program your own abbreviations. It' makes mroe sense for the general public. And how are Deaf/ HoH people supposed to learn the phonetic system of what to them is a foreign language? That seems a bit short sighted to me.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">which is why TypeWell which expands words when you type all the consonants is so much easier to remember. Plus you can program your own abbreviations. It' makes mroe sense for the general public. And how are Deaf/ HoH people supposed to learn the phonetic system of what to them is a foreign language? That seems a bit short sighted to me. </div>
  
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- Bri Zabriskie on 13 Oct 10
  
  a what?
  
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Bri Zabriskie on 13 Oct 10

Interview with someone who's created an open source stenograpic keyboard emulator for transcription services. I work in transcription so I think this is pretty stinking awesome.

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Computer and Electronics Wikihow - Seriously so cool! - 0 views

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digiciv wiki computers

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Genetic Algorithms and Evolutionary Computation - 0 views

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genetic algorithms computation evolution

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Gideon Burton on 20 Oct 10

Note especially the great list of examples of successful efforts to apply genetic algorithms

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