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A discussion of platforms, applications and the iPad at Vilna Shul, Apr. 7, 2010.

Posted in Gaming on April 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Having secured my own iPad device the Saturday before Easter, I thought it would be beneficial to attend a gathering at Boston’s Vilna Shul synagogue on April 7th to discuss high tech platforms and applications, and how they are important not only for how information is delivered to the end-user, but also how they have impacted our culture [...]

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Reunion of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab (S.A.I.L.)

Posted in Apple, Bell, DEC, Gaming, High Tech History, Internet, MIT, Microsoft, Stanford on December 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »

The Artificial Intelligence Pioneers Reunited at Stanford University.

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William Crowther’s “Adventure” – the first computer adventure game

Posted in Gaming on December 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »

I was speaking with a friend last night about an early computer game I played at Hartwick College’s computer center about 1981.  I had always known it as “Adventure;” but knew very little about its origins or background. Well, after “trolling” the internet for an hour or so this morning, I found a few references to [...]

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Kalah – the first remotely played computer game

Posted in DEC, Gaming, tagged , on January 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Digital Equipment Corporations’s “Space War”, which I’ve previously discussed, was not the only technologically ground-breaking game made interactive on DEC’s PDP-1 computer.

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Pac-Man and some other retro games …

Posted in Gaming on December 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

My well-worn copy of Michael Rubin’s wonderful book Droidmaker: George Lucas and the Digital Revolution, which details the origins and development of Lucasfilm’s computer graphics division – and its forays into film, games, medical graphics, etc.

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