This week in CyberNews

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This week in CyberNews

• Sarah Palins email hacked by 19yr old idiot.
• Did we like Steve Kurtzs talk?

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Recap webart

• 1. a place where artists promote their real
  world work.
• 2. a more traditional "white space" gallery. 
• 3. the art starts offline but there is a web
  component that's important to reach the intended
  audience.
• 4. Using the medium itself to mess with the ideas
  of what the internet should be. 
• 5. using social networking / web 2.0 tools and
  the culture of digital society itself as a medium
  for making art. (surf clubs).
• 6. Not making art at all, but somehow it
  becomes art over time

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Readings, homework

• As we may think - Vannevar Bush p37
• surfing-clubs - Marcin Ramocki on website.

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Storage
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Moore's law

• The number of transistors that can be placed
  integrated circuit doubles approximately every
  two years to 18 months.
• Its reason your dad wont get you a new
  computer.

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Happy 50th IC
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Or

• Can we trace it back even further?
• 1511 - stops and presets

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Jacquard loom 1801
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Charles Babbage 1792-1871
Invented the first computer (sort of).
On two occasions I have been asked by members of
Parliament, "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into
the machine wrong figures, will the right answers
come out?" I am not able rightly to apprehend the
kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke
such a question. -- Charles Babbage,
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• Was socially responsible.
• Thought the voting process would be more
  reputable and honest if you didnt use computers.
  (computers still meaning people at this point).
• Build a simple working version of the difference
  engine because he had skills as a technician (and
  smarts).
• But gave up / ran out of money and decided to
  create the Analytic Engine.
• Which was eventually created and proven to work
  YEARS later.
• Invented the Cow Catcher!
• Street musicians played at his funeral

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• The Analytical Engine
• A mechanical, digital, steam powered,Turing
  Complete, computer!

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Ada Lovelace
First programmer ever (computed the Bernoulli
numbers) for the Analytic Engine (which was
never built). Daughter of Lord Byron.
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• 1867 1960's Ticker tape

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Hollerith Census Tabulator

• Invented because the 1890 census was crazy.
• Inspired by train conductors
• Became IBM in 1924
• Automated the persecution of the Jews

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• Turings imaginary machine had unlimited tape.

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Quiz

• According to Jim Taylor in 1992 DVD stands for
  this.
• The internet says Jim Taylor is Chief of DVD
  Technology and General Manager of the Advanced
  Technology Group at Sonic Solutions

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• Doing the homework for this class is like playing
  music.

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Game of Life

• Link

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• Relays 1840s
• Capacitor Drums 1942
• Vacuum Tubes 1945
• Transistors 1947
• Magnetic drums (magnetic core)1948
• Magnetic Tape 1951
• Magnetic disks 1952
• Integrated circuit 1958
• Optical storage early 80s (music first)
• Solid state memory (an old idea but implemented
  in the 1990s
• The cloud.

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Drum Memory Storage
Tape Memory
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First Bug?
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• Edison "It has been just so in all of my
  inventions. The first step is an intuition, and
  comes with a burst, then difficulties arise
  this thing gives out and it is then that 'Bugs'
  as such little faults and difficulties are
  called show themselves and months of intense
  watching, study and labor are requisite before
  commercial success or failure is certainly
  reached."

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The Future

• ?????

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The FUTURE

• Singularity!
• I. J. Good (friend of Turing) wrote
• Let an ultraintelligent machine be defined as a
  machine that can far surpass all the intellectual
  activities of any any man however clever. Since
  the design of machines is one of these
  intellectual activities, an ultraintelligent
  machine could design even better machines there
  would then unquestionably be an "intelligence
  explosion," and the intelligence of man would be
  left far behind. Thus the first ultraintelligent
  machine is the _last_ invention that man need
  ever make, provided that the machine is docile
  enough to tell us how to keep it under control.
• ...
• It is more probable than not that, within the
  twentieth century, an ultraintelligent machine
  will be built and that it will be the last
  invention that man need make.

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Asimov Rules of Robotics, 1942

• 1. A robot may not injure a human being or,
  through inaction, allow a human being to come to
  harm.
• 2. A robot must obey orders given to it by
  human beings, except where such orders would
  conflict with the First Law.
• 3. A robot must protect its own existence as
  long as such protection does not conflict with
  the First or Second Law.

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• Ray Kurzweil at TED
• http//www.ted.com/index.php/talks/ray_kurzweil_on
  _how_technology_will_transform_us.html
• Domino logic gates