Difference between revisions of "CSC103 Questions on History of Computing Videos"
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*** What company has seemed to be active manufacturing PCs and is not any longer? Xerox (Xerox Park) | *** What company has seemed to be active manufacturing PCs and is not any longer? Xerox (Xerox Park) | ||
| + | * [http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=ComputerHistory#p/search/0/YwqltwvPnkw Grier's talk: When Computers Were Human] | ||
| + | ** 1 h 15 min | ||
| + | ** first 45 minutes are interesting | ||
| + | *** What is the reason Grier mentions Haley's comet? | ||
| + | *** Grier says: "is mathematics real? Is computation important"? | ||
| + | *** At some point there is a graph showing humans as part of a graph. Most cost effective (cheap) option for computations. Have you heard of Amazon's "Mechanical Turk"? What is it? How is that related to the video? | ||
| − | + | === General Questions=== | |
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* Is there a university that is interestingly present in the history of computers? <br />Harvard: Mark I, Gate, Zukerberg. | * Is there a university that is interestingly present in the history of computers? <br />Harvard: Mark I, Gate, Zukerberg. | ||
* What is missing from the movies? The Internet, The cloud | * What is missing from the movies? The Internet, The cloud | ||
