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NAM-IP Computer Museum @[email protected] · 2024-06-15 · 14:18 UTC

Remembering Lynn Conway for her pioneering work leading to VLSI and her personal fight against transgender discrimination

https://hackaday.com/2024/06/14/rip-lynn-conway-whose-work-gave-us-vlsi-and-much-more

https://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/LynnsStory.html

#VLSI #computerhistory #conway #transgender #ibm #xeroxparc #womenincomputing

#vlsi #computerhistory #conway #transgender #ibm #xeroxparc

Robin C @[email protected] · 2024-06-13 · 08:56 UTC

A remarkable life: "Lynn Conway, leading computer scientist and transgender pioneer, dies at 86".

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2024-06-11/lynn-conway-leading-computer-scientist-and-transgender-pioneer-dies-at-85

#lynnConway #ibm #xeroxPARC

#lynnconway #ibm #xeroxparc

:mastodon: Mike Amundsen @[email protected] · 2024-04-22 · 12:00 UTC

Can Xerox’s PARC, a Silicon Valley Icon, Find New Life with SRI?

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/03/26/business/silicon-valley-tech-xerox-parc-sri.html?ugrp=c&unlocked_article_code=1.j00.dH0_.CTy-FNLqj2rc&smid=url-share

"Two research labs known for some of the tech industry’s most important innovations have merged in hopes of recapturing their glory days." -- #JohnMarkoff

#WWW #XeroxParc #SRI

#johnmarkoff #www #xeroxparc #sri

:mastodon: Mike Amundsen @[email protected] · 2024-02-20 · 13:00 UTC

“The destiny of computers is to become interactive intellectual amplifiers for everyone in the world pervasively networked worldwide”.

https://www.quora.com/What-made-Xerox-PARC-special-Who-else-today-is-like-them/answer/Alan-Kay-11

#AlanKay #jcrLicklider #darpa #xeroxParc

#alankay #jcrlicklider #darpa #xeroxparc

Amin Girasol @[email protected] · 2023-12-15 · 14:37 UTC

@jaruzel @StefanoGaivota interesting! To me, #retrocomputing covers early #eightbit (and #sixteenbit) personal computers, and #vintagecomputing covers #mainframe, #minicomputer and #workstation machines (the latter category being composed of #LispMachines, graphical #unix workstations and of course the #XeroxParc machines).

#retrocomputing #eightbit #sixteenbit #vintagecomputing #mainframe #minicomputer

Dave Mackey @[email protected] · 2023-12-08 · 14:17 UTC

thinking about the magic ingredients that foster #tech #innovation. #XeroxPARC, #BellLabs, and #MIT's #TMRC appear frequently in the annals of #history - at least those I've read.

The #question is - how do we create such centers of innovation?

I'm still putting it together but I suspect there are at least four:

1 Time- Insane and copious amounts of it
2 Community- Multiple individuals who interact syngeristically
3 Space- A shared space for innovation to occur
4 Equipment- Raw materials

1/5

#tech #innovation #xeroxparc #belllabs #mit #tmrc

Aslak Raanes @[email protected] · 2023-07-19 · 12:01 UTC

I intervjuet forsøker Kristen Nygård å forklare objektorientert programmering (#OOP).

I tillegg til Ole-Johan Dahl så nevnes Alan Kay, Xerox PARC, #SmallTalk og Apple Lisa (skrevet som LISA). Endel unøyaktigheter er det i teksten, f.eks. Alan Kay skrev ikke SmallTalk alene, men det er vel ikke så galt til å være et reklameblad.

#AlanKay #XeroxParc #AppleNytt #Simula #OleJohanDahl #Macintosh #norsktut #allheimen

#oop #smalltalk #alankay #xeroxparc #applenytt #simula

Ed Howland @edhowland · 2023-05-31 · 20:31 UTC

happy 50th anniversary #Ethernet!
Here is a #ComputerPhile video:
https://youtu.be/TkOVgkcrvbg
#LAN #Networking #XeroxPARC go Bob Metcalf

#ethernet #computerphile #lan #networking #xeroxparc

Jörg Preisendörfer @[email protected] · 2023-01-15 · 10:59 UTC

@Seanleblanc

WRT #CommonLisp Object System (#CLOS):

The seminal book ›The Art of the Metaobject protocol‹ (1991, #AMOP) by #Kiczales, #Rivieres & #Bobrow demonstrates & discusses many design patterns for #ObjectSystem|s with #metaobject protocol, in which methods are not part of classes, due to #multimethod, #multipledispatch paradigms.