Computers
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Collection by Josep M. Ganyet
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MIT Technology Review
What is an “algorithm”? It depends whom you ask
MIT Technology Review
2 min read · 213 saves · Feb 26th · For better accountability, we should shift the focus from the design of these systems to their impact.
Quanta Magazine
How Claude Shannon Invented the Future
Quanta Magazine
5 min read · 347 saves · 2020-12-22 · David Tse · Today’s information age is only possible thanks to the groundbreaking work of a lone genius.
youtube.com
Alan Turing's lost radio broadcast rerecorded
youtube.com
11 saves · From 2018 · On the 15th of May 1951 the BBC broadcasted a short lecture on the radio by the mathematician Alan Turing. His lecture was titled “Can Digital Computers Thin...
sumapositiva.com
#67 Computación Cuántica (Quantum Computing)
sumapositiva.com
~14 min read · Jan 10th · En la edición de hoy trataremos de entender un poco mejor las bases de la tecnología, su potencial, limitaciones, aplicaciones y estado del arte actual.
hillelwayne.com
10 Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages • Hillel Wayne
hillelwayne.com
~13 min read · 70 saves · 2020-03-25 · The other day I read 20 most significant programming languages in history, a “preposterous table I just made up.” He certainly got preposterous right: he lists Go as “most significant” but not ALGOL,…
The New Yorker
Christoph Niemann’s “Evolution”
The New Yorker
2 min read · 19 saves · 2019-04-02 · The artist describes the inspiration behind his cover for this year’s Technology Issue.
sciencenode.org
Europe gets ready for exascale
sciencenode.org
4 min read · 2020-01-24 · Bigger data, faster machines--what will the 2020s hold?
Guardian Tech
Dark Territory review – how WarGames and Reagan shaped US cyberwar battle
Guardian Tech
4 min read · 10 saves · From 2016 · Charles Kaiser · Slate columnist Fred Kaplan’s new book details – exhaustingly as well as exhaustively – the alarms and innovations that made mass surveillance
MIT Technology Review
Quantum supremacy from Google? Not so fast, says IBM
MIT Technology Review
2 min read · 25 saves · 2019-10-22 · The rival maker of quantum computers is disputing the much-vaunted claim that Google has hit a new milestone.
davidporcel.com
TELESINCRO, SECOINSA, FUJITSU, INFORMÁTICA
davidporcel.com
9 min read · 2019-10-08 · telesincro: su historia En 1966 nacía Factor-P, considerado el primer ordenador fabricado en España. Estaba inspirado en una máquina de Philips para hacer facturas que había entusiasmado a Joan Majó,…
lamira.cat
Les dones dels algorismes
lamira.cat
~11 min read · 2019-10-07 · Són elles i les hem desxifrat: les primeres teixidores de programari informàtic. Als 60, a Catalunya, es fabriquen els primers ordinadors. Funcionaven amb plaques de fils de coure tramats per dones.…
