December 6, 2013 Allan Olley

The History of Science Society held its annual meeting two weeks ago (November 21st to November 24th) in Boston MA. The meeting celebrated among other things the centenary of the journal Isis, the organ around which the society was eventually formed. The meeting covered a broad range of topics in the history of science from all historical periods ancient to recent.

November 11, 2013 Jeffery Stein

LEO, more formally known as Lyons Electronic Office, was the world's first business computer, having been developed by the British company J. Lyons & Co. Ltd. between 1947-1954. John Simmons was very much the genius behind this adventure into business process re-engineering. His papers are archived at the Modern Record Centre at Warwick University in Coventry, England. Many of these contain valuable information about the ideas behind the LEO development.

November 9, 2013 Alan Weissberger

The event was in the form of an interview/conversation led by CHM CEO/moderator John Hollar.  Mr. Rattner spent a lot of time discussing his early life at Hollywood High School and how he got involved in electronics and as a EE student at Cornell University.  It was less about Intel's early history.  However, here are a few quick takes on Intel from Mr. Rattner:

October 7, 2013 Jeffery Stein

tommy flowersIn November 1943, an electrical engineer working in the telecommunications department of Britain's General Post Office named Tommy Flowers designed and built the world’s first programmable computer. Named "Colossus," the thermionic tube-based programmable computer successfully broke the supposedly unbreakable Lorenz cipher used by Hitler and the German High Command during the Second World War.

October 5, 2013 Alan Weissberger

This was a hugely succcessful panel session on Intel's transitions, twists and turns into the world's most successful semiconductor company of all time.  Many attendees complemented our 2 panelists and myself for a great learning experience and intellectually stimulating session.  The great stories told by Ted and Dave is what tech history should be all about, IMHO!
 
It was certainly a team effort, as evidenced by our planning session last week, Gwen Caldwell's superb job of making the r

August 28, 2013 Alan Weissberger

Panelists:  Ted Hoff, Intel (1968-1983)
                  Dave House, Honeywell (Intel customer) and Intel (1974-1996)
 
Moderator:  Alan J Weissberger, IEEE ComSoc
 
Abstract:
 

August 10, 2013 Alan Weissberger

A free session at the Flash Memory Summit- Aug 12-15, 2013 at Santa Clara Convention Center:  
Fireside Chat with Ted Hoff:  organized by IEEE COMSOC content manager Alan J Weissberger,  the session will be on Thursday from 9:50am to 10:50am.      Ted Hoff is co-inventor of the microprocessor and an early semiconductor memory design and applications engineer.

May 26, 2013 Alan Weissberger

Bob Metcalfe's key points on the Ethernet Innovation Summit are summarized in this article:

http://community.comsoc.org/blogs/alanweissberger/bob-metcalfes-closing-keynote-ethernet-innovation-summit-may-23-2013-chm-mt-vi

40 years of Ethernet history discussed during day one; day two featured "movers & shakers" talking about current and future market trends and technologies.
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Metcalfe's closing keynote talk along with the Q & A session can be viewed at:

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