Monday, 02 April, 1962
Discussed the STV situation with Lou Kraff, who is going to WSMR tomorrow. He had made a diagram showing the various equipment at WSMR. The program now needs a reliable flow diagram based on the data...
View ArticleSunday, 08 April, 1962
Overcast Took family to SS & church; Harold Brown spoke on the definition of the “Universal Church,” a fine sermon. We then went to Wollaston to the Vetterlein’s for dinner & a most pleasant...
View ArticleWednesday, 18 April, 1962
The 4 runs showed a slowdown to 506 Ft/sec at 38 K! This is too slow. Reran at 20˚ & 25˚ with δ+ = 1.0 sec rather than 0.1 sec and 250 sec total time. Put a data deck in the 5 PM run with 20˚, 01....
View ArticleNewshour interview with George Dyson
Another child of the military-industrial machine, Dyson was as the son of Freeman Dyson, around the Institute for Advanced Study when he was very young. He recounts some of the developments related to...
View ArticleMonday, 11 June, 1962
Read JHH paper. It is based on the General Purpose System Simulator proposed by Geoffrey Gordon of IBM. Joe H. has made a good start; his paper as it is needs to have some applications to the specific...
View Articleback to teaching:
brainstorming for the upcoming class: THE MEANING OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY / ATLS2000 Course Description: This lecture-based course introduces a range of topics in information technology and new...
View ArticleM of IT – Day 2 – 29 August
Back in the saddle. Large class, 40+ students, still not in the system yet, so, completely hobbled by lack of login, office, at the same time as struggling mightily to conceptualize a trajectory for...
View ArticleM of IT – Day 7 – 19 September
week 4: 19 september – day 7 – Arrival in the Present link to collective notes assignment: readings to be FINISHED for today: Rheingold, H., 2000. Tools for Thought: the history and future of...
View ArticleThursday, 08 November, 1962
Checked in at BSD/L2 Office about 8 AM. Looked at a typical warehouse with 82,000 ft2 — wood 6″ x 6″ columns on 20″ centers and a 16′ ceiling with sprinklers. Rehab of this structure would cost around...
View Articlescreening: Jeanne Liotta
Make a pilgrimage to Longmont to the Firehouse Arts Center to catch an evening screening of work by a CU Film Studies faculty-member Jeanne Liotta. I had met her the evening before at another...
View ArticleFirst Day of Class
blurr. faces, voices, situations; I seem to have a penchant of being boring when introducing an open framework. At least to the jaded percentage. This comes as an effect of talking about things rather...
View ArticleThe Hybrid: This and/or That
1 The Hybrid: This and/or That 2 Abstract: This text is a meditation on the concept of hybridity and hybridization as a construct of our techno-social system that attempts to safely frame (chaotic...
View Articleback to connecting the dots
Mulling over the way to go — how to carve a trajectory through the knowledge space? — perennial (no, daily!) question. Confronting the students with a more random array of inputs (texts,...
View ArticleDeep Resonant Networking panel
How do you know when something or someone is affecting you? There are many ways of describing or modeling the dynamics of human encounter and collaborative relationship. The concept of resonance is a...
View ArticleWednesday, 01 May, 1963
Worked on photo specs: still in a quandary about how to organize the material. In the PM I went to the latest IEEE PGEM Spring Lecture by Assoc. Prof. Rosenbloom of HBS who talked about “Performance...
View Articleexpectations and deliverables
It is strange that we expect students to learn, yet seldom teach them anything about learning. We expect students to solve problems, yet seldom teach them about problem solving. And, similarly, we...
View Articlethe dorsal turn
As readily as one accepts the status of artistic creation, as a paradigm for human production, in terms of a terrestrial afterlife — the desire to leave something behind — so might we insist that the...
View ArticleSaturday, 02 November, 1963
Rain Arrived at PSC at 0910 to find Geo Costello already there. We put the Line Amp & Power Supply on the left rack, and tried to put the tone control in , but it didn’t work. After considerable...
View ArticleBern Porter’s Sciart Manifesto
Finite worlds of infinite reality and beauty revealed by the tools and discoveries of Science are ripe for aesthetic development. 1. Of light, besides the commonly employed natural and artificial,...
View ArticleRetooling: the Meta-Labor of design
[ed. this was a sticky entry to announce a slowly forming upgrade of the site starting in March 2014] Welcome to the tech-no-mad blog / neoscenes travelog. We are undergoing a significant facelift in...
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