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Ryan Peterman interviews Casey Muratori about computer history, software engineering, and programming practices in a podcast episode focused on balanced tech discussion.
This film is a documentary produced for the first joint computer conference in 1951, showcasing the workflow of the EDSAC computer. It is widely regarded as the first film to document the operation of a stored-program computer.
The Interim Computer Museum is a non-profit charity that preserves and shares computing history through interactive exhibits with vintage hardware and modern enhancements, partnering with SDF for community events and artifact preservation.
The Internet Archive blog highlights a curated collection of 50 Atari computer club newsletters from August 1987, offering a preserved time capsule of the regional home computing scene from nearly 40 years ago.
The article describes efforts to index and preserve the Computer Museum of America collection stored at San Diego State University, highlighting its significance as a repository of computer revolution artifacts.
Announcement of upcoming fixes for inefficiencies in computer history usage, image handling in long sessions, and session title generation for the Codex service, with apologies for inconveniences.
The tweet highlights a use of computer history to track user activity across apps and websites, allowing AI like Codex to identify repeated workflows and build small tools for improved personal efficiency.
ChatGPT's desktop app on macOS introduces Computer History, a feature that tracks user actions like clicks and keystrokes to build a timeline for suggesting automations and referencing past activities, with opt-in privacy controls and no image capture.
Codex has launched a new feature 'computer history' that automatically records computer operations and periodically summarizes them, helping users distill recurring workflows into skills.
OpenAI is releasing Computer History for ChatGPT, letting it learn from a user's computer activity to understand workflows and suggest automations. Kent C. Dodds jokingly worries it will learn from his time on X.
OpenAI has released an updated Computer History feature in ChatGPT, replacing the Chronicle research preview with reduced token usage, enhanced privacy controls, and a new timeline view to help users track and utilize their activity across apps and websites for productivity and skill building.
OpenAI announces that ChatGPT can now remember user activity across apps and websites via Computer History in the desktop app, enabling more personalized interactions with less explanation.
Ajai Chowdhry, co-founder of HCL, recounts the company's 1976 beginnings: six founders, a tiny seed fund, and selling a computer before it existed, leading to the birth of HCL and its 50-year journey.
An interactive essay revisiting RAND Corporation's 1966 GRAIL handwriting recognition system, explaining Gabriel Groner's real-time handprinted text recognition algorithm with interactive implementations and open-source code.
A draft historical preservation of John Backus's functional programming languages, including context and materials from his research project.
An article highlighting the often-overlooked contributions of women who worked on the computers used in the Apollo space missions.
The Museum of the Human Web is a collection of artifacts from the pre-AI era of internet and web creation, celebrating human ingenuity. Proceeds from the sweepstakes benefit the Internet Archive and Computer History Museum.
A retrospective on Apricot Computers, a British PC maker known for shipping the first 486-based PC and designing/manufacturing in the UK, as explored in a BBC documentary series.
A blog post exploring the history of the Alaska server brand, a Mexican computer brand from the late 1990s and early 2000s, discovered during a teardown of a failed 2U rackmount server.
The PDP-11 minicomputer, introduced in 1970, was highly influential in computing history, helping to birth UNIX and the C programming language. This article provides an overview of its architecture and impact.