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Computing History & Culture

Tech pioneers & interviews

Tech pioneers & interviews sits within Computing History & Culture. Treat computing as a history of people and institutions as well as machines and software. This selection contains 369 catalog videos from 243 distinct channels. The examples below offer specific entry points into the subject, with their own vocabulary and scope, rather than a prescribed sequence of lessons.

Recurring catalog topics include steve jobs, apple, elon musk, lex fridman, alan kay and startups. These tags describe overlapping directions within the collection; an individual video may connect several of them. Recorded formats include comedy, commentary, demo, documentary, explainer, interview, lecture, news, other, podcast and talk. Use those differences to choose between approaches to the subject and to compare how different contributors frame related questions.

“Growing a Language, by Guy Steele”, listed under Bill Pugh, is cataloged as talk. Guy Steele's 1998 OOPSLA keynote on designing a programming language that its users can grow. He builds the talk using only one-syllable words and terms he has defined, to demonstrate the idea.

“VCF East: Ken Thompson interviewed by Brian Kernighan”, listed under Vintage Computer Federation, is cataloged as interview. Brian Kernighan interviews Unix co-creator Ken Thompson at VCF East 2019. Thompson recounts how he was hired at Bell Labs, writing the Unix kernel in about three weeks, the origins of B…

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