personal computing
1:00:26Colossus - The Greatest Secret in the History of Computing
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The Centre for Computing History
Chris Shore of the Centre for Computing History explains how Colossus was built, how it worked, and how it affected the course of World War II. It is an hour-long museum lecture on the codebreaking computer.
48:40Capt. Grace Hopper on Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People (Part One, 1982)
179K views • 2 years ago
National Security Agency
Part one of Capt. Grace Hopper's 1982 NSA lecture on the future of data, hardware, software and people. It includes her humor, her nanosecond demonstration and views on scaling and resisting old ways of doing things.
Topic match · History of computing
1:21:22Light Years Ahead | The 1969 Apollo Guidance Computer
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TNMoC
Robert Wills of TNMoC explains the Apollo Guidance Computer hardware and software, then walks through the Apollo 11 landing procedure step by step, including the 1202 alarms.
Topic match · History of computing
14:36Distributed Systems 1.1: Introduction
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Martin Kleppmann
The first lecture in Martin Kleppmann's 8-lecture distributed systems series from the University of Cambridge undergraduate course. It introduces the subject, and accompanying lecture notes are available.