IEFBR14
Software development, then and now.
14 October 2024
Kilobytes in a hurricane
Popping up out of retirement to celebrate Grove's newly-launched support for text-only news sites for member stations, as reported by Joshua Benton for Nieman Lab.
13 November 2023
Union strong
Congratulations to Digital Media United, part of NABET-CWA Local 31 and representing tech workers at NPR, on the ratification of its first contract!
30 August 2023
Still holding some secrets
The Antikythera Mechanism visits the Astronomy Picture of the Day once again.
15 March 2023
Undergrads
An excellent documentary on the genesis of BASIC (with just a touch of chest-thumping on the part of Dartmouth College).
20 February 2023
Is anyone reading the literature?
Joseph Weizenbaum didn't expect his secretary to take ELIZA so seriously, either. Sheesh. "The new Bing & Edge – Learning from our first week."
One area where we are learning a new use-case for chat is how people are using it as a tool for more general discovery of the world, and for social entertainment. This is a great example of where new technology is finding product-market-fit for something we didn’t fully envision.
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