Author of Seven Seconds and Maximum Impact (aka Circumference of Darkness in the U.S.)
Posted in News, Research Archive on Apr 13th, 2008
I’ll get to the eye-Phone in just a minute, after a bit of context. The series of books that I’m in the middle of writing all take place in the first 5 years of the 21st century. For you and me, that’s only a few years ago, but in future decades I hope these books [...]
Posted in News on Apr 10th, 2008
A few minutes after I’d read the announcement that IBM is now shipping a five-billion-instructions-per-second processor, I noticed another story about computing that I thought you might find interesting in contrast. Charles Babbage died in 1871, having designed but never constructed the very first programmable computer. Incomplete pieces of his Difference Engine #2 had been [...]
Posted in News, Research Archive on Apr 8th, 2008
from Stephen Barr, for The Washington Post Small and secretive, DARPA has compiled a number of impressive achievements in the past 50 years. It pulled together researchers who created the blueprint for the Internet. It sponsored the inventor of the computer mouse (the first was carved from wood and had one button). It developed the [...]
