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Entries from July 2007

Sketchpad, The World’s First

July 16th, 2007 · No Comments

Sketchpad, A Man-Machine Graphical Communications System.

Between 1962 and 1964, Dr. Ivan Sutherland created Sketchpad: A Man-Machine Graphical Communications System, arguably the world’s first computer graphics system, and non-procedural programming system.

Ivan Sutherland at the TX-2 using Sketchpad

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Memex, The Dawn of Informatics

July 16th, 2007 · No Comments

“AS WE MAY THINK” BY DR. VANNEVAR BUSH

Originally published in the Atlantic Monthly→,As We May Think→” (July, 1945), a member of the Manhattan Project proposes the [tag]Memex[/tag]↔, a sort of microfilm-based knowledge desk. Many consider the Memex to be the pre-digital precursor to the idea of the Web and Internet as we know it today. It may reflect the dawn of the information age.

Memex diagramDr. Vannevar Bush, creator of the MemexMemex camera diagram

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Red Studio: Teaching Design at Tsinghua

July 13th, 2007 · No Comments

Red Studio: Teaching Design at Tsinghua Design Professor reflects on his experience teaching at the Academy of Arts and Design at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, over the summer of 2007.

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iPhone Reviewed and Future Features Wish-Listed

July 11th, 2007 · No Comments

The stunning product that we love to hate.

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Tags: Gadget Review