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- On Building Systems That Will Fail
This is a presentation from Fernando Corbató from the 1990 ACM Turing Award lectures. Corbató was one of the creators of both the Compatible Time-Sharing System (CTSS) at MIT and Multics, the operating system that inf…
- Man-Computer Symbiosis
J.C.R. Licklider's seminal 1960 paper on what would eventually become the personal computer. Man-computer symbiosis is a subclass of man-machine systems. There are many man-machine systems. At present, however, there…
- A Network of Science
A beautiful visualization project from Nature converts 150 years of scientific papers into a 3-dimensional network diagram, making concrete the network of citations and references linking together the history of disco…
- Weekend Reading: Iceland, the Use of Knowledge, and CLI Search
⚖️ The Use of Knowledge in Society I've been reading some of Hayek's famous articles this week. This one is all about what he probably considered one of the most important concepts, since these basic ideas form a cent…