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In 1981, a groundbreaking show featuring digital art on monitors connected to framebuffers and a computer made history. This is the story of the small team that pulled it off. The post A Historic Pixel Art Exhibition appeared first on CHM.
CHM remembers 2006 Fellow Sir Antony Hoare, whose work is embedded in the very foundations of the digital world. The post In Memoriam: Sir Antony Hoare (1934–2026) appeared first on CHM.
Historian and author Patrick McCray shares stories about writing his new book that explores a variety of books about computing. The post Read Me appeared first on CHM.
The ingenuity of industrial designers like Jerry Nichols helped Silicon Valley embrace mass production in the 1960s and early 1970s, transforming the Valley and the world. The post Drawing the Future appeared first on CHM.
The true story of Pixar's IPO and the Silicon Valley investment bankers who took a chance on Steve Jobs' passion project. The post Pixar’s True Story appeared first on CHM.
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President Donald Trump, it seems, has some sort of odd obsession with obtaining Greenland. On several occasions in the 2020s he has offered to buy the ice-covered island from Denmark, and also threatened to take it. But American interest in Greenland dates all the way back to the beginnings of the Cold War. . Camp … Continue reading America’s Cold War in Greenland →
The 1970s are often remembered for their distinctive fashion, colorful cars, changing city streets, and evolving American culture. But photographs from the decade reveal another side of the country, where industrial smokestacks towered over residential neighborhoods, chemical plants lined waterways, and pollution was part of everyday life for many communities. These scenes existed alongside ordinary […]
In the past, authorities have authorized censorship on the basis of claims of substantial chances of social disruption or collapse if people were free to hear about religious heresy, alternate ideologies, sexually permissive art, losses in ongoing wars, looming disasters, and pandemic details.
