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My Videos

Oct. 2013
A short video used to demonstrate a Processing app. for CSC103, How Computers Work.

Oct. 2013
A video demonstrating a new 2D-Packing heuristic working on the packing of 1,000,000 randomly sized rectangles.

Sept. 2013
A video illustrating a new 2D-Packing heurisitc packing 20,000 randomly sized rectangles.

Jan. 2013
A demo of a Javascript calculator simulator ported to iBook. See the tutorial page for more info.

Jan. 2013
A video illustrating how to create a simple animation for iBook using Hype.

Dec. 2012 A video illustrating a recursive maze traversal in assembly language. See this page for more information.

Sept. 2012
A video showing the wiring of a 2-bit adder, Part I

Sept. 2012
A video showing the wiring of a 2-bit Adder, Part II

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Articles + Videos


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Videos

Parallel Processing

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Hardware

  • How hard disks work.






















  • How LCD monitors work. Very informative and clear!





















Design







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    Powers of Ten, a film by Charles and Ray Eames. A wonderful journey through the very small and the very large. A classic film. Can also be viewed on line here.







Visualization

Nature by Numbers

A movie illustrating Fibonacci series, and the golden ratio, among other mathematical concepts. The movie is made by Eterea Studios
"The animation begins by presenting a series of numbers. This is a very famous and recognized sequence since many centuries ago in the Western World thanks to Leonardo of Pisa, a thirteenth century Italian mathematician, also called Fibonacci. So it is known as Fibonacci Sequence, even although it had been described much earlier by Indian mathematicians."

Prefuse

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A wmv movie on the different features and easy programmability of Prefuse.










Robotics









History of Computers

Note: to view the movies on a Mac, click on the movie and choose to open with VLC. Or download to local folder, then open with VLC. Do not use Flash player.







  • The Altair 8800
    • History of the Altair 8800 Computer.
    • 1975
    • 7min 40sec
    • Good reference: The Altair 8800 on Wikipedia



















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    Charles Babbage and his Difference Engine.
    • 5 min 45 sec
    • items of interest
      • "cranking out the result"
      • machine "thinking on its own"
      • 1846, analytical engine: general purpose machine. Automaton.
      • Difference engine 2: 1/3 the part of the previous machine
      • output on paper
      • "intelligent" machine
      • Babbage never saw the machine built.













  • History of computing: A quick overview of the history of computers, mentioning Zuse, Ibm, Bill Gates, Steve Wozniack, Steve Jobs.
    • 1 min 14 sec
    • 400BC Abbacus
    • Zuse, electric calculator
    • 1964 IBM 360
    • 1970's PCs




  • The history of Computers, Part I
    • 7 min +
    • This is a history of computers throughout ads.
    • Start with John Cleese
    • Great video of Balmer selling Windows
    • Portable Compaq computer, 22lbs








  • Computer History:
    • 6 min
    • A nice coverage, starting with Babbage, and mentioning Atanasof, Colossus, Zuse, Eniac, Apple I, IBM, Altair, Radio Shack TRS80.
    • Expects a young audience
    • Abbacus
    • Pascal
    • Babbage
    • Hollereith
    • Harvard Mark I
    • Atanasoft
    • Colossus
    • Zuse 1941
    •  !971 Intel Processor
    • 1976 Apple I
    • 1990 personal computer






Excerpt from http://press.princeton.edu/titles/7999.html:

Before Palm Pilots and iPods, PCs and laptops, the term "computer" referred to the people who did scientific calculations by hand. These workers were neither calculating geniuses nor idiot savants but knowledgeable people who, in other circumstances, might have become scientists in their own right. When Computers Were Human represents the first in-depth account of this little-known, 200-year epoch in the history of science and technology.
Beginning with the story of his own grandmother, who was trained as a human computer, David Alan Grier provides a poignant introduction to the wider world of women and men who did the hard computational labor of science. His grandmother's casual remark, "I wish I'd used my calculus," hinted at a career deferred and an education forgotten, a secret life unappreciated; like many highly educated women of her generation, she studied to become a human computer because nothing else would offer her a place in the scientific world.






Various Presentations

  • This is a 2-part video of a 10-minute talk given by D. Thiebaut, Computer Science, in the Clark Science Center at Smith College. You can read an interview of Thiebaut here...


















Python

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Programming

Infinite Loops
Go to 7-minute point in video for an example of an "infinite verbal loop"!








Tools

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