Article by Danny Hillis for Physics Today reprinted with permission, describing Richard Feynman's involvement with the Connection Machine project at Thinking Machines Corporation in the late 1980s. Feynman contributed significantly to the project, including designing an algorithm for computing logarithms and working on the router design.
A tribute to the Z80 microprocessor, which has been discontinued after 48 years. The article discusses the history of the Z80, from its creation at Intel to its eventual departure from the market.
The article details a digital archive of source code and documents from Xerox PARC, spanning from the 1980s to 1994. It describes the archive's contents, organization, and the tools/languages/projects represented (Cedar/Mesa, Interlisp, Alto systems, graphics, printing, AI, etc.). It also explains how the files were processed for viewing (HTML, PDF, octal dumps) and provides information about file naming conventions and archive structure.
This article discusses the MIT Artificial Intelligence (AI) Lab's 'Tourist Policy' and how it impacted students' access to its resources. As a high school student in Maryland, the author shares their experience of using the lab's PDP-10s over the ARPANET and how it inspired them to learn and contribute to the MIT community.
