Tagged: MIT
Splash @MIT (day 1)
I went to something called Splash at MIT today. Splash is a big event of MIT students teaching classes about many diverse subjects, from chocolate to quantum physics. One of the classes I took...
Multics Turns 40
Multics, one of my favorite operating systems recently turned 40. I first encountered it in ‘76 on the big machine at MIT. It was quite a revelation at the time. The other systems I...
J. C. R. Licklider as the Antichrist
David Byrne had a post on his blog the other day in which he laments the fact that so many of the physical objects which we have valued for decades or centuries will disappear...
Blogging @ MIT
The NYTimes has a nice article this morning about how MIT is embracing student bloggers as a way of connecting with high school students. It’s a good idea. It’s very hard for high school...
When a Good Idea Works
The latest issue of Technology Review has a nice article by John Maeda about the early history of Processing. Fry and Reas were students of Maeda’s at the Media Lab, and Processing was heavily...
Buzz Aldrin at the Pops
We went to the Pops last night. It was a special event that was part of the Giant Leaps symposium at MIT, which was in honor of the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11...
