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Author: Tara Lie

Spacewar! The Story of the First Video Game Created by Hackers at MIT

Tara Lie 07/07/2022

Author: Massimiliano BrolliOriginal Publication Date: 19/03/2021Translator: Tara Lie In this exciting story, we will catapult ourselves back to 1958 to MIT’s Tech Model Railroad Club and meet Steve Russel, Steve was one of the first hackers and wrote one of the first video games in history, and the very first with a connected Gamepad. The Tech Model Railroad Club The TMRC was an exclusive club, as we have already seen, which was frequented by brilliant and interesting characters. They often fit into the classic “geeky” stereotype – bespectacled individuals, not particularly athletic or tall, and more likely to have a ruler in their pockets

The Founding Fathers of the Hacker Community

Tara Lie 28/06/2022

Author: Massimiliano BrolliOriginal Publication Date: 19/03/2021Translator: Tara Lie Hacker culture was brought to life thanks to computer scientist Richard Greenblatt and mathematician Bill Gosper at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). It all started at MIT’s famous Tech Model Railroad Club (TMRC), which we discussed in a previous article. Today, I would like to talk about programmer and computer scientist Richard Greenblatt, born on Christmas day 1944 in Portland, Oregon. Greenblatt was an expert chess player, and from nine years old he would take apart old radios and televisions to figure out how they worked internally. He would also build amplifiers, modulators, oscilloscopes and

The “Mother of all Demos”. Douglas Englebart’s Vision of the Future

Tara Lie 12/05/2022

Author: Massimiliano BrolliOriginal Publication Date: 12/05/2022Translator: Tara Lie The “Mother of all Demos” is the name retrospectively used by journalist Steven Levy, in his 1994 book ‘Insanely Great’, to describe a revolutionary demonstration held on a rainy Monday, 9th December 1968, at Brooks Hall Auditorium in San Francisco. This computer conference was pivotal for the future of modern computing, and attended by people who would the next year see the moon landing live.  Consider this, before the presentation many in the computing community were whispering in the room, saying that Engelbart was crazy. However, by the time the demonstration ended, some were saying that

Vannevar Bush’s Visionary Essay: “As We May Think”.

Tara Lie 07/05/2022

Author: Massimiliano BrolliOriginal Publication Date: 15/11/2021Translator: Tara Lie Today I would like to bring a visionary essay to light, a source of inspiration for many scientists that have contributed to technological innovation, especially in computer science in the years following its publication. Vannevar Bush The essay, written in 1945 by Vannevar Bush, was published in the journal Atlantic Monthly. It introduced science to a new way of thinking, making it clear that for years, all inventions had only taken the extent of humankind’s physical powers into consideration, rather than the power of their minds. Vannevar Bush was an American engineer, born on

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