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A left hand on film: how Edwin Catmull began with a one-minute animation

A trademark rename and a platform's search for applications

Adi Shamir as both builder and breaker of ciphers

After TCP/IP: Vint Cerf's Push to Network Other Planets and Guard Against a Digital Dark Age

Alike in function, incompatible in practice: CP/M-86 beside DOS

Andrew Ng: From the Stanford Classroom to the AI Lab

Beyond RSA: selection, learning and honest ballots in the work of Ron Rivest

Bill Joy: the weekend legend and the documented record

Bounded Rationality and the Case Against Perfectly Rational Decisions

Breaking the 64 kilobyte limit: what CP/M 3 changed and when it arrived

Brian Kernighan and the work of explaining Unix and C

Clean Code and the debate over small functions

Designing Color Graphics Into the Apple II

ELIZA and the line between deciding and choosing

FreeRTOS as a scheduling library for small devices

From a Hobby Announcement to Version 2.0: How the Linux Kernel Took Shape

From AlexNet to Safe Superintelligence: Ilya Sutskever's Three Stages

From breaking Netscape key generation to designing private messaging

From chess endgames to Argus: the systems Barbara Liskov built

From FreeBSD committer to DragonFly BSD founder

From Google search systems to TensorFlow: the infrastructure behind Jeff Dean

From Green to Ada to FITALY: Jean Ichbiah's Two Careers in Computing

From logical clocks to TLA+: how Lamport made distributed systems checkable

From memory hardware to the calculus of cause and effect

From multi-user CP/M to FlexOS: the MP/M family line

From probabilistic robotics to the self-driving car

From the MIPS project to the textbook: how Hennessy carried RISC out of the lab

From Word Embeddings to AI Safety: Bengio's Second Turn

Fuchsia: a color, a capability kernel and a quiet launch

Functional programming and QuickCheck: the work of John Hughes

HarmonyOS 5 and the price of leaving Android

How a company funds a free smart home platform

How a Frustrated Typesetting Job Produced TeX

How AlexNet moved neural network training onto GPUs

How Algorithm Traveled From Al-Khwarizmi's Name to Any Precise Procedure

How Anti-Aircraft Gunnery Led Norbert Wiener to Found Cybernetics

How bit blit and Smalltalk came out of one workbench

How CiteSeer Turned Citations Into a Search Index

How ENIAC was programmed: wiring, switches and six women

How FlexOS ended up running cash registers

How HarmonyOS moved away from Android

How NP-Completeness Got Its Name, After the Field Agreed Not to Settle Its Biggest Question

How OpenSolaris was opened in stages and then closed

How Radia Perlman made bridged networks safe from loops

How the Cray-1 kept vector data in registers

How the Harvard Mark I ran a program from paper tape

How TypeScript, Born From JavaScript's Own Limits, Overtook It

Leading the West Area Computers into the Programming Era

Leaving Google to Warn About AI Risk

Linda and the tuple space model of parallel programming

MINIX, a Unix clone written to be read and taught

Multics: a commercial disappointment and a lasting foundation

NeXTSTEP as a stack of kits, and where the stack went

One 1981 License, Two Diverging Operating Systems

Provable security and zero-knowledge proofs: how Goldwasser reframed cryptography

Randy Pausch and the teaching of computing as a creative craft

Seymour Cray and the fast system, not just the fast processor

The 1936 Proof That Gave Computing Its Founding Thesis

The Accidental Name Behind Linux, and the Dispute Over What to Call It

The Cellular Automaton That Became a Lawsuit, and a Book

The Centaur Fuel Mix Behind Annie Easley, and the Career NASA Nearly Erased

The Convolutional Network That Learned to Read Checks

The Daikatana Ad That Haunted a Doom Co-Creator

The mission that came before the mouse

The Patent Dispute Behind Carmack's Reverse

The Program That Wrote a Program: Grace Hopper's Account of What Betty Holberton Actually Built

The Scale Fei-Fei Li Insisted ImageNet Needed

The Turing Award's Own Words for What Berners-Lee Built

Threads everywhere: how BeOS was built and what outlived Be

Tony Hoare on his own mistakes

What Boole Meant His Algebra of Logic to Do

What the war destroyed of Konrad Zuse's machines, and what he rebuilt

Why IBM and Microsoft parted ways over OS/2

Why Microsoft sold a Unix alongside MS-DOS

Why Schneier says the algorithm is rarely the weak point

Why Stallman Insists on GNU Slash Linux