Miscellaneous Multimedia

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Videos

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  Design and the Elastic Mind, a Charlie Rose interview with Paula Antonelli, curator of the MoMA exhibit of the same name.

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  BigDog: A video of BigDog, the alpha male of the Boston Dynamics family of robots. More videos can be found at www.bostondynamics.com

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  Charles Babbage and his Difference Engine

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  History of computing: A quick overview of the history of computers, mentioning Zuse, Ibm, Bill Gates, Steve Wozniack, Steve Jobs.

• The history of Computers, Part I

• History of computers, 1939 to present

• Computer History: A nice coverage, starting with Babbage, and mentioning Atanasof, Colossus, Zuse, Eniac, Apple I, IBM, Altair, Radio Shack TRS80.

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  When computers were human, by David Grier. First 45 minutes provide nice coverage of the human side of computing.

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  YouTube's Selection of Computer History videos. Great stuff!