Miscellaneous Multimedia

<meta name="keywords" content="computer science, dominique Thiebaut, smith college, history of computers, video" /> <meta name="description" content="Dominique Thiebaut's Web Page" /> <meta name="title" content="Dominique Thiebaut -- Computer Science" /> <meta name="abstract" content="Dominique Thiebaut's Computer Science Web pages" /> <meta name="author" content="thiebaut at cs.smith.edu" /> <meta name="distribution" content="Global" /> <meta name="revisit-after" content="10 days" /> <meta name="copyright" content="(c) D. Thiebaut 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007,2008" /> <meta name="robots" content="FOLLOW,INDEX" />

Videos

Design

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

Robotics

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

History of Computers

• 
  Charles Babbage and his Difference Engine

• 
  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.

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

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