Contributors discuss a host of topics, such as how university databases were programmed long ago to accept only two genders, what the person who programmed the very first pop-up ad was thinking at the time, the first computer worm, the Bitcoin white paper, and perhaps the most famous seven words in Unix history: 'You are not expected to understand this.' Torie Bosch brings together many of today’s leading technology experts to provide new perspectives on the codes that shape our lives.
Click the button to your left or this link to register.įrom the publisher: "Everything from law enforcement to space exploration relies on code written by people who, at the time, made choices and assumptions that would have long-lasting, profound implications for society.
This social world was the fertile soil from which personal computing grew.This event will be held on Zoom Webinar. In the early 1970s, the People’ s Computing Company organised low-cost classes, school visits, and circulated publications that featured computer programs readers could copy, modify, and redistribute. Soon it was the lingua franca of hobbyists and students worldwide. Around that time, professors and students at Dartmouth College pioneered the BASIC programming language, innovative for prioritising clarity over efficiency. People were sending electronic messages all over New England in 1968. In fact, it might leave out the key parts. Nerdy men, often in their garages, had remade the world.Īn appealing story, but it leaves out a lot. Personal computers, and later smartphones and the internet, became the defining technologies of our age. Then, in the mid-1970s, geniuses like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates pioneered home computing. But the public’s day-to-day life looked much the same. This story starts in the 1950s and 1960s with commercial mainframe computers that, one stack of punch-cards at a time, assumed business tasks ranging from managing airline reservations to calculating betting odds. According to most accounts, the history of computing is a triumph of enterprise.
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