The first “Koreatown” was established in Riverside, California, in early 1905. Koreans had been immigrating to the United States for a few years before this, but, unwelcome in racist San Fransisco, they had dispersed throughout California and the West. Scholars … Read more
If you happened to live in Santa Cruz in 1994 you could sit down at your computer, open up your favorite browser, and then go ahead and order a pizza online. You could do all of this on PizzaNet, owned … Read more
In the second pass, the Lisp code for a function, as processed by the first pass, is translated into assembly instructions to be executed by the IBM 704/709/7090/7094 (henceforth referred to as simply “the 7090”). As Bernard S. Greenburg says, in … Read more
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I have always wanted a native CSS way to crop an image and position it in any direction I need. This has been possible by using an additional HTML element combined with different CSS properties that I will explain later. … Read more
This black-and-white image might not look like much, but it represent the first step towards the creation of a new field of photography. What looks like random patches of black, grey and white are actually the earth’s horizon as seen … Read more
[May 2, 2022: Nicolas Caballero] Quantumscape lithium metal solid state battery. (CREDIT: Quantumscape) QuantumScape has announced impressive performance figures for what may be the first commercially viable lithium metal solid state battery. They claim that they can increase the autonomy … Read more
Perl, the first postmodern computer language Thank you all for coming. I was hoping the title of this talk would scare away everyone who shouldn’t be here. Obviously I should have made up a scarier title… Perl meets Godzilla? Bambi … Read more
DuraCOR Pi is first MIL-STD rugged “Pocket-Size” mission computer to deliver 100% compatibility with Raspberry Pi software ecosystem and HAT expansion module ecosystem ASHBURN, Va. – March 14, 2022 – Curtiss-Wright’s Defense Solutions division, a leading supplier of modular open … Read more
It’s been a long while since we updated the blog! Truth be told, we wanted to write a couple more progress reports, but there was always “one more thing”… So, instead, we decided to take the plunge and publish the … Read more