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History of Sketchpad from 1963. One of the most influential computer programs ever written by an individual.

A tiny, single-sided M.2 SDR board that you can operate easily using your web browser

CHM releases to the public for the first time a full oral history with Ivan Sutherland, pioneer of computer graphics, virtual reality, asynchronous systems, and more.

On March 11, 1915, American psychologist and computer scientist J.C.R. Licklider, known simply as J.C.R. or "Lick", was born. He is particularly remembered for being one of the first to foresee mode

Some updates from our ongoing work on local-first auth, a new post from our Ambsheets project about filtering scenarios in a spreadsheet, and some explorations of the historic Sketchpad project for constraint-based drawing.

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Oct. 12—WASHINGTON, Dc. On — Thursday, Congressman August Pfluger (TX-11) introduced legislation to block Iran, the largest state-sponsor of terror, from...

Explore infinite canvas tools that work the way we think

Proponents of mainframe/time-sharing/big computing opposed personal computers pretty strongly. To them(e.g. John McCarthy), it probably seemed like computers are there to be the big-brains, sort of oracles, humans should seek help from solving complex problems like AI. So, relegating majestic computers to companions filling people's desks/pockets was not acceptable. From a historical perspective, coming up with the…

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