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Silicon Minds: The book may be the most powerful technology ever invented. In the hands of a child the results are nothing short of miraculous. Dubose Montgomery, founder of Menlo Ventures in Silicon Valley, can attest to a journey that [See the full post…]
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Editorial, Silicon Minds, Technology Tags: Dubose Montgomery, Isaac Asimov, M.I.T., Menlo Ventures, Robert Heinlein, Sand Hill Road, Silicon Minds, Silicon Valley, Siri
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Silicon Minds: After graduating from Georgia Tech in the early 1950s, Earle Jones thought he would merely pursue a graduate degree. “Georgia Tech and Stanford had a close relationship three thousand miles apart,” he recalls. “I wanted to go to [See the full post…]
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Editorial, Silicon Minds, Technology Tags: Bank of America, Earle Jones, Georgia Tech, magnetic ink character recognition, Palo Alto, Silicon Minds, SRI, Stanford, Stanford Research Institute
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Silicon Minds: Alan Turing was born on June 23, 1912. Well before World War II he conceived of a machine which could compute and it was a machine that, although an abstraction, could solve problems. It was a monumental achievement [See the full post…]
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Editorial, Silicon Minds, Technology Tags: Alan Turing, Cambridge University Press, David Tranah, father of computer science, Gay Pride, Homosexuality, John Turing, Sara Turing, Silicon Minds, Turing Machine, Universal Machine
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Silicon Minds: Open source continues to make gains despite the perception that its era has passed. Just recently, the NYSE Technologies announced it was using the open source software called Drupal to make collaboration tools and for content management, an [See the full post…]
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Editorial, Silicon Minds Tags: Bruce Perens, Connected Social Media, Drupal, LibreOffice, Linux, Open Source, OpenOffice, Silicon Minds
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Silicon Minds: The legend goes that Don Massaro, President of Shugart Associates in the 1970s, drew the 5.25 inch dimension of the minifloppy diskette on a napkin at lunch. “That’s not quite true,” says Don Massaro. “If you go look [See the full post…]
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Categories: Audio Podcast, Big Data, Editorial, Microsoft, Silicon Minds Tags: 5.25 inch drive, Alan Shugart, Alto, Alto computer, Apple, Connected Social Media, Don Massaro, Ethernet, IBM, iPad, Macintosh, Memorex, Minifloppy disk drive, Office of the Future, Palo Alto Research Center, PARC, Shugart, Shugart Associates, Silicon Minds, Steve Jobs, Xerox