Entries from July 2007
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.

[Read more →]
Tags: Academic Lecture
“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.



[Read more →]
Tags: Academic Lecture
Design Professor reflects on his experience teaching at the Academy of Arts and Design at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, over the summer of 2007.
[Read more →]
Tags: Academic Essay
The stunning product that we love to hate.
[Read more →]
Tags: Gadget Review