Frances E. Allen is the first worman to recieve ACM Turing Award
. “New York, NY, February 21, 2007– ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, has named Frances E.Allen the recipient of the 2006 A.M. Turing Award for contributionsthat fundamentally improved the...
View ArticleComputerworlds Funniest Top 10 Tech Videos
. Yes, its another one of these top 10 lists that I usually don’t like…. This one, however, I do.Here’s a list of 10 of the funniest tech-related videos on Youtube. I’d recomend :1. The Medieval Help...
View ArticleBlogs Turn 10!
“ Some of your friends may still be hardpressed to describe what one is, and you may well be feeling guilty about not updating your own often enough – but hang out the bunting because blogging is now...
View ArticlePhoto : 5mb Hard Drive in 1956
Self Explanitory. Read the title. Photo herehttp://allonlettera.com/?p=4
View ArticleiPhone Competitor
According to Reuters, the Taiwanese company High Tech Computer Corp. will soon launch a smartphone with touchscreen technology that will offer an alternative to Apple’s iPhone. The phone will run on...
View ArticleThe Theory of Everything 3.0
A few days ago, an unlikely individual published a paper on the theory of everything. This guy isn’t a college professor or any typical “Einstein” like figure. And yet, he has struck upon a possible...
View ArticleSpace (Two-Item post)
Item #1 : Space Shuttle Atlantis from above.It’s a nice, large hi-res image too, much larger then shown here. ” The Space Shuttle Atlantis begins the slow journey to Launch Pad 39A from the Vehicle...
View ArticleWhats Inside a MacBook Air?
Take a look at whats inside the MacBook Air, the different chips, really thin display, and how easy it was to take it all apart.I found this nice pictorial/text guide from Ifixit, showing the...
View ArticleTEAM 0.5
A bit of science for us all. TEAM 0.5 has debuted. What is TEAM? Its the worlds most powerful transmission electron microscope. It gives images with .5 angstrom resolutions, which just so happens to be...
View ArticleMarch 20, 1800: Volta’s Battery Shows Potential
It was almost 207 years ago that the first battery was developed by Italian physicist Alessandro Volta. For the first time, electricity could be gathered and stored, instead of just being handled as a...
View Article‘Mobile’ phone enjoys centenery
“Invented by Nathan Stubblefield in 1908, the device came complete with an unwieldy metal transmitter. A far cry from the tiny mobile phones in use today, the telephone was made up of a system of wire...
View Article51-year-old TV wired for the “digital age”
Richard Howard is an antique enthusiast and a furniture restorer from Norfolk, England. He’s got a passion for old things, like old cars, his 1920s house (which his grandfather built), and his old...
View ArticleNew Web Address Endings coming soon?
According to an article in USA today, “The familiar .com, .net, .org and 18 other suffixes — officially “generic top-level domains” — could be joined by a seemingly endless stream of new ones next year...
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