A Personal History Of Portable Computers

According to Boing Boing , the first portable computer was 20 tons and fit in two semi-trailers in the 1950s. By 1958, that had dropped to 1...

Early AI Expert Systems

The Apgar score for evaluating the health of newborn babies, i nvented by Dr. Virginia Apgar in 1952 , was one of the earliest examples of a...

Software 101

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Quote of the Day

As much as I'm annoyed with #Facebook , today reminded me I've hated #Microsoft since long before Mark Zuckerberg graduated from us...

Non-Military And Paramilitary System Concepts

What new systems would be useful for first responders (paramedics, firefighters, wildfire fighters, police, school security officers, school...

Flying Taxi Gets Real

Kitty Hawk, the Silicon Valley startup backed by Page, said it is building and testing "all-electric vertical take-off and landing prod...

Quick Hits On Economics, Marriage and Education

Economics Retail and Tourism * There are lots of businesses that are in trouble:  Claire's  cheap earring stores are bankrupt,  JC Penne...

Army Robots

Prototype robot tanks are supposed to be about three years away, but it isn't clear just how much autonomy that they will have.  "W...

Nightmares

From here . Referencing an erroneous ballistic missile warning early this month in Hawaii that lasted 38 minutes because the Governor couldn...

Good Thing My Drives Are Solid State

A new acoustic hack renders hard drives, CDs, and DVDs inoperable when an acoustic wave of the right frequency (roughly 2-20 Hz) is played ...

The B1-B Bomber Is A Poor Close Air Support Aircraft

The Air Force, which continues to hate the A-10 fighter, officially wants to replace it with the F-35A, which is too expensive and also ill ...

Anti-Surface Warship Warfare Is A Job For Aircraft

It makes all of the sense in the world to see the primary military means of attacking enemy warships to be with missiles deployed from aircr...

The U.S. Department of Defense System For Developing New Weapons Sucks

Richard B. Levine provides a brief but useful history of the many failures and rare successes of the U.S. Department of Defense in developi...

Video Recordings And Crime

Commercial Video and Crime Someone shot and killed three people , seemingly at random, in a Walmart in Thornton, Colorado yesterday evening....

Stranger Things As Evolutionary Psychology Realized

Humanity spend hundreds of thousands of years of its evolutionary history fighting and defeating large, creepy, dangerous animals that threa...

ASGH 2017 Abstracts

The abstracts of the conference presentations at the American Society of Human Genetics Conference in Orlando, Florida for 2017 which is cur...

Military Works On Plan B If GPS Navigation Fails

The U.S. Army is working on "systems that combine cameras with inertial measurement units, or IMU, which are made of sensors such as gy...

Shout Out To IT Folks For No Good Reason

From here . Have a nice day!

Fun With What3Words

My office (not just my office suite, by my personal office) is located at  task.people.transmitted on the 20th floor according to the What3...