Dr. Fritz Sennheiser, founder of the international electronics company that bears his name, died this past Monday (May 17) at 98. The official press release from the Sennheiser Group states his “biography as a developer and entrepreneur was indeed one of the most remarkable careers in Germany.” Though he first became enamored of radio technology [...]
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Dr. Fritz Sennheiser, electronics pioneer, dies at 98
Posted in High Tech History, tagged headphones, John F. Kennedy, Louis Armstrong, microphones, motion pictures, Sennheiser, Siemens on May 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
O’Reilly Media releases poster called “History of Programming Languages”
Posted in High Tech History on April 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
For more than fifty years, computer programmers have been writing code. And new technologies continue to emerge, develop, and mature at a rapid pace – to the point where there are presently more than 2,500 documented programming languages. O’Reilly Media has now produced a poster called History of Programming Languages, which plots over fifty programming [...]
Review: Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age, by Kurt W. Beyer
Posted in High Tech History on March 12, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Grace Hopper was a pioneer computer scientist before such a profession ever existed. Brought up in comfortable surroundings in Manhattan and schooled at Vassar, Hopper brought her sharp intellect, organizational powers and an unrelenting drive to her work. She started her career at the Harvard Computation Laboratory at the beginning of World War II, working [...]
The Boston Computer Society
Posted in High Tech History, tagged user groups on February 12, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The Boston Computer Society was formed on February 12, 1977.
Brief History of the Office Cubicle
Posted in High Tech History on January 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The term cubicle comes from the Latin term “cubiculum” which means “bed chamber.”
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.
December 7, 1963 – First “authorized” use of instant replay in a sporting event
Posted in High Tech History on December 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
On this day, Dec. 7, 1963, the first authorized use of “instant replay” was used in the annual Army-Navy college football game. Instant replay is now typically used during breaks in play, where tape is often slowed or “frozen” so that the preceding play can be analyzed more in detail. It was only used on [...]
Seymour Cray, the Father of “Supercomputing”
Posted in High Tech History on December 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Seymour Cray is the father of the supercomputer.
1982 DEC Documentary on Entering the PC Market (Or Not)
Posted in DEC, High Tech History, tagged DEC, Ken Olsen, PC on November 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
1982 Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) Documentary on Entering the PC Market (Or Not)
“An agreement based on animal faith.”
Posted in High Tech History on November 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Teradyne was founded in 1960 with “an agreement based on animal faith.”
DEC Co-Founder Publishes Memoir
For more information on "Learn, Earn & Return: My Life As A Computer Pioneer" see: www.locustpress.com.-
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