We mourn the loss of Michael O. Rabin, who has passed away at the age of 94. Alongside Dana S. Scott, Rabin received the 1976 ACM Turing Award for their seminal paper, "Finite Automata and Their Decision Problem."
This is the book that inspired me to learn assembly language. I had it on almost permanent loan from the local library. Bought this mint copy a couple of years ago. Mine has the alternate spelling of Toni on the cover.
i'll take this moment to shout out @lainenooney.bsky.social's book, the apple II age, which does an incredible job of locating the print shop's role in personal computing histories :) a great read, for the scant few who follow me who have not yet read it
La Fundación Bayer tiene becas abiertas para estudios de maestría, doctorado y medicina; y para estudiantes y docentes de carreras científicas (STEM).
El plazo de postulación vence el 15 de abril.
La convocatoria es en inglés.
🔗 www.bayer-foundation.com/science/fell...
What if you kept digging downward?
What the latest What If? video in collaboration with @minuteearth.bsky.social!
youtu.be/r7B0MzvwDcA
New from @bitmapbooks.com, "Leaps + Bounds: a Visual Guide to Nine Console Generations" has 336 pages covering pretty much every console you can imagine and looks absolutely stunning... and you can pre-order it now for shipping later this week!
www.bitmapbooks.com/products/lea...
The PARAM Pravega supercomputer at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (image by Andra Sonia Petrutiu). Glass enclosed raised floor computer room with double glass door entrance.
New Interfaces article!! (link below) Insightful article on the history of Indian supercomputing by Cornell U. STS scholar Andra Sonia Petrutiu "Disrupting Flattening Universal Ambitions: The Case of Supercomputing in India." #histsci #supercomputing #india #history
cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces
Flash is sold out. Hard drives are sold out. Great time to invest in pencil and paper I guess.
wccftech.com/western-digi...
#storage
Qué dice la #neurociencia sobre la lectura profunda:
Leer es una herramienta para desarrollar empatía y pensamiento crítico
Y también en "Al infinito y más allá", de 19 a 20 por @eldestape_radio AM1070, YouTube El Destape Ciencia, TDA y Canal 20 de Telecentro @Alinfinito1070 @RoloGonzalezOK nos contará sobre cómo comenzó la toma de muestras de la Patagonia para el programa PoblAR 😍
There aren't many things more satisfying than scraping the pocket fluff out of the USB-C slot in your phone.
😤😤😤😤
No la puedo ver en Argentina.
Alguna otra fuente?
Parece muy bueno.
"Desarmen, pregunten, hackeen, aprendan. Tienen el tiempo y la energía para hacerlo".
Esa fue la consigna de @nwolovick.bsky.social en la charla para estudiantes de escuelas secundarias que integran la Red de Comunidades de Aprendizaje de Santa Fe.
👉 youtu.be/cQPlsCSnGwI
📣Calling #HPC Students!
Join the #ISC26 Student Volunteer Program! 🔜Hamburg (Germany) on 22-26 June 2026.
📆Deadline for submission: 15 February 2026
🔗isc-hpc.com/program/stud...
The Internet Archive has rolled out an extremely effective new tool for searching for old Geocities GIFs.
I'd apologize for what I'm about to do to this website as a result, but that would be a lie, because I won't feel sorry at all
gifcities.org
The CFP for CUG 2026, to be held in Nice, France, is now open! Wish I could go. CUG was one of my favorite annual #HPC conferences.
cug.org/cug-2026/
Sure, when I say it I'm a grumpy old greybeard.
When Cory Doctorow says it he gets interviewed on The Daily Show.
There's a point here for UK and European Policy Makers - the key part of our modern economic and social infrastructure doesn't have to be like this.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2e-...
Hoy pensaba que el golpe de 1930 está apenas más lejos del de 1976 que el de 1976 de ahora. Si a los pibes ahora 1976 les suena tan lejano como a mí me sonaba 1930, entiendo un poco mejor por qué no aprendemos nada como país.
Domitila: "madre" de Grecia Colmenares en Topacio.
Topacio nace ciega porque la madre tuvo sarampión durante el embarazo. Candente actualidad
WebOS. Palm Pre.
<3
Just act casual.
Matt Davies, Newsday
A Texas Instrumenta TI99/4 home computer with every sidecar module attached
@jeriellsworth.bsky.social 's incredibly long computer. So lengthy I had to switch to wide angle mode.
I'm still travelling but I did take a moment to start a Burger Becky collection in the "Away From Keyboard" collection. I'd love suggestions of items to add - not just stuff at the archive that Becky's far down the appearances in, but things that are directly connected.
archive.org/details/burg...
@liapietrasanta.bsky.social telling us about @latambioimaging.bsky.social as part of a tour around the globe to wrap up our Australian Light Microscopy Train-the-Trainer course. @globalbioimaging.bsky.social #GBI_AU_2025
