1: Big Machines in Glass Cages

Timecodes

0m Introduction

2m Summer 1959 - Assembly on a pseudo-Von Neumann IAS machine, Oak Ridge

9m National Science Foundation Mathematics Camp, FSU, ~1962, IBM 709 (Vacuum tube)

10m IBM 7090 (transistorized), Purdue, LaFayettte, IN

12m MIT, 1965-1969, Point-Set Topology

17m IBM Boston Programming Center System 360 Intern

20m High Level Langauges & PL1 Compiler

24m Second Internship

26m Quantum Computing?

28m Computational Influences: Fred Brooks, UNC, 1969-1970

30m Mythical Man Month

34m Don Knuth, Thesis Advisor, Stanford, 1972-74

41m Topographical Maps

44m Pattern Recognition & Drawing the Right Diagram

48m KU Trace Speedometers

50m RISC vs CISC - reduced vs complex instruction set computers, Burroughs 1700, Service Free System 801, x86 MicroOps

56m Paper Publishing over time

1h Outro & Music Credits

Music Credits

Music by Ménage Quad of St Louis, MO. Songs are Real Swing Shet & 1, 2 Skadoo, used under a Creative Commons attribution licence. Thank you!