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Technical Accomplishments of Ron Crane- RIP
Ron Crane may be best known for being an eccentric design engineer, but he had many technical accomplishments that were not documented. Those include: 1. Co-designing the 10M b/sec Ethernet...
Thomas Haigh on "The Other Women of ENIAC: Rethinking IT Innovation"
On March 20, 2017, Thomas Haigh, PhD engaged in conversation with Alan J Weissberger, ScD at an IEEE Silicon Valley History meeting in Santa Clara, CA. Tom talked about his education, industrail...
IEEE Milestone Dedication for SHAKEY: The First Robot With Artificial Intelligence
When I came to Santa Clara, CA in the Spring of 1970 the hottest topics were artificial intelligence and its manifestation in Shakey the robot. There were several IEEE talks per quarter on that t...
Did V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai Invent Email?
DID V.A. SHIVA AYYADURAI INVENT EMAIL? A COMPUTER HISTORIAN RESPONDS Now includes both the original 2012 article comissioned by the Washington Post, a lengthy extension covering Ayyadurai's su...
History Session @ Flash Memory Summit, Aug 7th, Santa Clara, CA
Session 302-C: An Interview with Simon Sze, Co-Inventor of the Floating Gate (History Track) Organizer: Brian A. Berg, President, Berg Software Design Speaker Simon Sze, Professor, National ...
Learning about Infrastructure, and Infrastructures for Learning: Insights on Pedagogy from the SIGCIS
As I mentioned recently on the listserve, this year there will be a panel on the main SHOT program discussing how SIG concerns are integrated into teaching. As part of SHOT's new website laun...
The Betrayal of the Internet Imaginaire
In a recent blog post, The Betrayel of the Internet Imaginaire , SIGCIS Chair Elect Andy Russell offers a fresh perspective on Snowden, the NSA, and Internet politics. Drawing insight from histor...
Who Coined the Term Silicon Valley?
At a superb IEEE CPMT lecture by Paul Wesling on the ORIGINS OF SILICON VALLEY, computer historian Roy Mize insisted that the term "Silicon Valley" was not coined by either Ralph Vaerst or Don Ho...
Bob Metcalfe's Closing Keynote at Ethernet Innovation Summit - May 23, 2013, CHM in Mt View, CA
Metcalfe's key points are summarized in this article: http://community.comsoc.org/blogs/alanweissberger/bob-metcalfes-closing-... .................................................... His tal...
Inventor Ted Hoff's Keynote @ World IP Day- April 26, 2013 in San Jose, CA
The World IP Day program was to promote and celebrate the many benefits of intellectual property in San Jose and the SF Bay Area. San Jose and Silicon Valley lead the nation in patent generation ...