by David Brooks | Nov 18, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
It’s hard to remember now, but in the Good Old Days – the decade through my teenage years, which is everybody’s definition of Good Old Days – the typewriter was just about the most interesting piece of technology in people’s homes. Whether manual or electric, the...
by David Brooks | Nov 18, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
Dartmouth College has a new class called Critical AI that looks at the history and sociocultural impacts of the technologies known as artificial intelligence. Dartmouth News story is here. The Department of English and Creative Writing class is being taught this fall...
by David Brooks | Nov 16, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
Thomas Kurtz, the Dartmouth professor who co-created BASIC and DTSS with John Kemeny, helping launch the whole idea of computing and networks, has died. He was 96. Dartmouth News has a long remembrance with some historic photos. I interviewed Kurtz via email in 2018...
by David Brooks | Nov 15, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
The NHIAA – New Hampshire Interscholastic Athletic Association – has added esports to the list of competitive high school varsity sorts, reports the Monitor in this story. NHIAA has designated two games for official tournaments hosted at SNHU’s Esports...
by David Brooks | Nov 15, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
(Links to each patent can be found here, using the patent number or inventor’s name.) By Targeted News Service WASHINGTON – The following federal patents were assigned in New Hampshire through Nov. 17. *** Optical Identifier and System for Reading Same NEURSCIENCES...
by David Brooks | Nov 15, 2024 | Blog, Newsletter
A self-described Masshole is behind the brilliantly funny move of The Onion – for years the best satire site around – buying that fetid cesspool of ignorance and anger, Infowars. So says the Boston Globe.